Get current border color of a window?

[Kody-Quintana]

Is it possible to get the current border color of a window? I have a script that sets the border colors with chwb, I want to capture the original color so I can revert back to it. I'm currently just using bspc config focused_border_color for this, but since that is a bspwm specific command it isn't very portable.

[z3bra]

I'm not aware of any way to retrieve the border color of a window. I wish I had one though, to make chwb more efficient, but as far as I know, the only way to do it is to request the color of a pixel that's visible on the border color. It means that this would only work is the border is visible, which is far from reliable.

[lwilletts]

Could you script it so the previous colour is held in a temporary file?

[Kody-Quintana]

I'm currently capturing the output of bspc config focused_border_color into a variable so after my script exits I can restore it to that. I just wanted to make sure there wasn't an easy way to get the current window's border color that was agnostic to whatever window manager I'm running.

But after thinking about this some more, for my use case I'd still need a way to determine both the colors for focused and unfocused borders in case my script exits when it isn't in focus, so this functionality is probably outside the scope of what chwb would be able to do