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PROGRAM:

NAME

dwbremote - dwb remote control

SYNOPSIS

dwbremote [OPTION] <command> <arguments>

DESCRIPTION

dwbremote allows one to control dwb from command line. It communicates
with dwb instances by setting its XProperties. Return values will be
printed to stdout. To use dwbremote enable-ipc must be enabled in the
dwb instance to communicate with.

dwbremote tries to find windows depending on the options passed, if no
options are used or no windows were found it will use the environment
variable DWB_WINID, if it is not set it will use the last dwb window
that had focus. In userscripts executed by dwb the environment variable
DWB_WINID will always be set and will point to the window that executed
the script. Passing more than one option sends the command to all
matching windows.

OPTIONS

-a --all
Sends a command to all windows.

-c --class wm_class
Search for window id by WM_CLASS.

-i --id window_id
Send comands to window with id window_id, window ids in hexadecimal
format must start with 0x.

-l --list
List all dwb window ids with enabled ipc.

-n --name wm_name
Search for window id by WM_NAME.

-p --pid pid
Search for window id by process id pid.

-s --show-id
Print the window id in every response, the window id will be
prepended to the response.

COMMANDS

add_hooks [hook ...]
Adds a list of hooks without actually connecting to the hook, see
hook for a list of hooks and clear_hooks.

bind command:shortcut [command:shortcut ...]
Bind a shorcut or command, to bind only a commandline command
without binding a shortcut command:none must be used, to bind only
a shortcut without binding a commandline command none:shortcut.

clear_hooks [hook ...]
Removes a list of hooks so the will no longer be emitted. To
re-enable hooks add_hooks can be sent. For a list of hooks see
hook.

confirm [prompt message]
Shows a confirmation prompt. Returns true if y was pressed and
false if n or Escape was pressed.

execute command
Executes a command, the command is parsed the same way as if
executed from commandline. A shorthand for execute is prepending :
to the command, i.e. dwbremote execute scroll_down is equivalent
to dwbremote :scroll_down

get argument
Gets miscellaneous properties

Arguments

all_domains
Gets newline separated list of all domains.

all_hosts
Gets newline separated list of all hosts.

all_titles
Gets newline separated list of all titles.

all_uris
Gets newline separated list of all uris.

current_tab
Gets number of the current tab, starting at 1.

[n] domain
Gets the effective top level domain of the nth tab or
current tab is n is omitted, e.g. for www.example.co.uk it
will return example.co.uk.

[n] history
Gets the newline separated history list of the nth tab or
current tab if n is omitted. The first field is the history
number, negative values indicate back history items,
positive numbers indicate forward history items, 0
indicates the current uri.

[n] host
Gets the host of the nth tab or current tab is n is
omitted.

ntabs
Gets total number of tabs.

profile
Gets the profile name.

session
Gets the name of the session.

setting <name>
Gets a setting, only the current local settings from the
instance are received so they might differ from the
settings in $HOME/.config/dwb/settings, e.g. if they were
changed with local_set.

[n] title
Gets the title of the nth tab or current tab is n is
omitted.

[n] uri
Gets the uri of the nth tab or current tab is n is omitted.

hook hook [hook ...]
Connect to a list of hooks.

Hooks

change_mode
Emitted when the mode changes, return format: change_mode
<mode>

mode
The new mode, can be one of normal, insert, hint,
command or caret

close_tab
Emitted when a tab is closed, return format: close_tab <n>

n
Number of tab that was closed

document_finished
Emitted when the DOM document load has been finished for a
frame, return format: document_finished <n> <mainframe>

n
Number of the tab

mainframe
true if it is the DOM document of the mainframe has
been finshed loading, false if the DOM document of a
subframe has been finshed.

download_finished
Emitted when a download has been finished, return format:
download_finished <destination_uri>

destination_uri
The destination uri of the download, e.g.
file:///tmp/download.pdf

execute
Emitted when a command is executed, return format: execute
<command> <argument> <n>

command
Command that is executed

argument
Argument if it is a commandline command with argument
or none

n
Numerical modifier or -1

focus_tab
Emitted when a tab gets focus, return format: focus_tab <n>

n
Number of tab that gets focus

hook
Emitted when the command hook, add_hooks or clear_hooks is
executed, return format: hook <action> <hooks>

action
Either add if add_hooks or hook is executed, clear if
clear_hooks is executed

hooks
List of hooks.

load_committed
Emitted when new page load has been committed, return
format: load_committed <n> <uri>

n
Number of the tab

uri
Uri that will be loaded

load_finished
Emitted when a page load has finished, return format:
load_finished <n> <uri>

n
Number of the tab

uri
Uri that will be loaded

navigation
Emitted when a tab or a frame in a tab requests a new page
load, return format: navigation <n> <mainframe> <uri>

n
Number of the tab

mainframe
true if it is the mainframe, false if it is a subframe
that requests the new page load

uri
Uri that will be loaded

new_tab
Emitted when new tab is created, return format: new_tab <n>

n
Number of the new tab

quit
Emitted when dwb is closed. The response will be empty

prompt promptmessage
Shows a prompt dialog.

pwd_prompt promptmessage
Shows a password dialog. Note that using password prompt is not
save.

EXAMPLES

Executing commands

dwbremote :tabopen example.com
dwbremote -pid 1234 execute 2close

Getting properties

uri="$(dwbremote -id 0x1000001 get uri)"
title="$(dwbremote -id 0x1000001 get 2 title)"
scripts_enabled="$(dwbremote -class foo setting enable-settings)"

User/Password prompt

username="$(dwbremote prompt Username:)"
if [ "$username" ]; then
password="$(dwbremote pwd_prompt Password:)"
fi

Multiple hooks with one dwbremote instance

#!/bin/bash

if [ "$DWB_WINID" ]; then
DWBRC=dwbremote
else
DWBRC="dwbremote -class foo"
fi

while read -a array; do
hook="${array[0]}"
case "$hook" in
navigation)
...
;;
load_finished)
...
;;
close_tab)
...
;;
esac
done < <("$DWBRC" hook navigation load_finished close_tab)

Binding multiple shortcuts

while read -a array; do
bind="${array[0]}"
case "$bind" in
none:xx)
...
;;
foobar:gx)
...
;;
esac
done < <(dwbremote -pid 1234 bind none:xx foobar:gx)

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