Event List

These are all the events that can be listened to using Event Hooks.

Complete list

name	description	argument(s)
tick	fired on a tick, meaning once per (1000 / highestMonitorHz) ms	nullptr
activeWindow	fired on active window change	CWindow*
keyboardFocus	fired on keyboard focus change. Contains the newly focused surface	wlr_surface*
moveWorkspace	fired when a workspace changes its monitor	std::vector<void>{CWorkspace, CMonitor*}
focusedMon	fired on monitor focus change	CMonitor*
moveWindow	fired when a window changes workspace	std::vector<void>{CWindow, CWorkspace*}
openLayer	fired when a LS is mapped	CLayerSurface*
closeLayer	fired when a LS is unmapped	CLayerSurface*
openWindow	fired when a window is mapped	CWindow*
closeWindow	fired when a window is unmapped	CWindow*
urgent	fired when a window requests urgent	CWindow*
minimize	fired when a window requests a minimize status change. Second param is 1 or 0	std::vector<void>{CWindow, uint64_t}
monitorAdded	fired when a monitor is plugged in	CMonitor*
monitorRemoved	fired when a monitor is unplugged	CMonitor*
createWorkspace	fired when a workspace is created	CWorkspace*
destroyWorkspace	fired when a workspace is destroyed	CWorkspace*
fullscreen	fired when a window changes fullscreen state	CWindow*
changeFloatingMode	fired when a window changes float state	CWindow*
workspace	fired on a workspace change (only ones explicitly requested by a user)	CWorkspace*
submap	fired on a submap change	std::string
mouseMove	fired when the cursor moves. Param is coords.	const Vector2D
mouseButton	fired on a mouse button press	wlr_pointer_button_event*
activeLayout	fired on a keyboard layout change. String pointer temporary, not guaranteed after execution of the handler finishes.	std::vector<void>{SKeyboard, std::string*}
preRender	fired before a frame for a monitor is about to be rendered	CMonitor*
screencast	fired when the screencopy state of a client changes. Keep in mind there might be multiple separate clients.	std::vector<uint64_t>{state, framesInHalfSecond, owner}
render	fired at various stages of rendering to allow your plugin to render stuff. See `src/SharedDefs.hpp` for a list with explanations	eRenderStage
windowtitle	emitted when a window title changes.	CWindow*