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dwmipcpp

dwmipcpp is a C++ client library for communicating with an IPC-patched dwm. This library requires that dwm have the IPC patch which can be found here. This library contains a very simple interface for sending all the message types implemented in the IPC patch. It also supports subscribing to and listening for events.

Requirements

To build dwmipcpp, you will need:

• cmake (>= 3.0) to build the library
• jsoncpp (>= 1.7.2) for generating and parsing IPC messages
• C+11 compiler to compile the library

Building the Library

To use the library, add the following to your project CMakeLists.txt:

add_subdirectory(dwmipcpp)
include_directories(${DWMIPCPP_INCLUDE_DIRS})
include_directories(${DWMIPCPP_LIBRARY_DIRS})

target_link_libraries(<your project> ${DWMIPCPP_LIBRARIES})

Documentation

The library is thoroughly documented using Doxygen. The documentation can be found here. To use the library, you only need to worry about the Connection class.

Examples

Some example code for interacting with the library can be found in examples/.

To run the examples, you can execute the build.sh script in the project directory. The example executables will be located in build/examples/.

Related Projects

See the dwm IPC patch

See the dwm polybar module [WIP]

Credits

Special thanks to the authors of i3ipcpp whose code structure was adapted for this library.