/* communications.c -- Send commands to a running copy of ratpoison. * Copyright (C) 2000, 2001 Shawn Betts * * This file is part of ratpoison. * * ratpoison is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) * any later version. * * ratpoison is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this software; see the file COPYING. If not, write to * the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, * Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA */ #include #include #include #include #include #include "ratpoison.h" void send_restart () { XEvent ev; int status; ev.xclient.type = ClientMessage; ev.xclient.window = DefaultRootWindow (dpy); ev.xclient.message_type = rp_restart; ev.xclient.format = 32; ev.xclient.data.l[0] = rp_restart; ev.xclient.data.l[1] = CurrentTime; status = XSendEvent (dpy, DefaultRootWindow (dpy), False, SubstructureRedirectMask, &ev); if (status == 0) { PRINT_ERROR ("failed to send restart event\n"); } } void send_kill () { XEvent ev; int status; ev.xclient.type = ClientMessage; ev.xclient.window = DefaultRootWindow (dpy); ev.xclient.message_type = rp_kill; ev.xclient.format = 32; ev.xclient.data.l[0] = rp_kill; ev.xclient.data.l[1] = CurrentTime; status = XSendEvent (dpy, DefaultRootWindow (dpy), False, SubstructureRedirectMask, &ev); if (status == 0) { PRINT_ERROR ("failed to send kill event\n"); } } /* Sending commands to ratpoison */ static void recieve_command_result (Window w) { Atom type_ret; int format_ret; unsigned long nitems; unsigned long bytes_after; unsigned char *result; if (XGetWindowProperty (dpy, w, rp_command_result, 0, 0, False, XA_STRING, &type_ret, &format_ret, &nitems, &bytes_after, &result) == Success && XGetWindowProperty (dpy, w, rp_command_result, 0, (bytes_after / 4) + (bytes_after % 4 ? 1 : 0), True, XA_STRING, &type_ret, &format_ret, &nitems, &bytes_after, &result) == Success) { if (result && strlen (result)) { printf ("%s\n", result); } XFree (result); } } int send_command (unsigned char *cmd) { Window w; int done = 0; w = XCreateSimpleWindow (dpy, DefaultRootWindow (dpy), 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0); // Select first to avoid race condition XSelectInput (dpy, w, PropertyChangeMask); XChangeProperty (dpy, w, rp_command, XA_STRING, 8, PropModeReplace, cmd, strlen (cmd) + 1); XChangeProperty (dpy, DefaultRootWindow (dpy), rp_command_request, XA_WINDOW, 8, PropModeAppend, (unsigned char *)&w, sizeof (Window)); while (!done) { XEvent ev; XMaskEvent (dpy, PropertyChangeMask, &ev); if (ev.xproperty.atom == rp_command_result && ev.xproperty.state == PropertyNewValue) { recieve_command_result(ev.xproperty.window); done = 1; } } XDestroyWindow (dpy, w); return 1; }