>
> IIUC, that is client.focus.pid if available.
>>
>
> Unfortunately, that only gets the PID of the terminal emulator, which
> doesn't change directory with bash. You need something that digs through
> the process tree to find the current interactive shell process and grabs
> its PID. Here's the script I use:
>
> https://gist.github.com/Dalrik/20b41ca274a9da47138a
>
> Call that script with client.focus.pid as the argument, and it will spawn
> a new shell in the same cwd in most cases. YMMV. Some notes:
> - This script will find the "deepest" zsh process under a given PID, which
> in my case is almost always the currently interactive shell. I have a bunch
> of alternate environments that I can run as necessary, so it's fairly
> common for me to have 2 or 3 zsh processes running under a given instance
> of urxvt.
> - You'll need to change zsh and urxvt in the script to whatever you use.
> - This version of the script breaks down if it hits a su'd terminal. I use
> another one which replaces the pwdx call with a small setuid program which
> prints the pwd of any process, which allows me to use it on terminals that
> I've, for example, used `sudo -s` on. I wouldn't recommend doing this
> unless you understand exactly what the security implications are.
>
> If you don't care about tracking down which instance of bash is the one
> you're interacting with, you could change the checkchildren function to
> return on the first shell process it finds. In most cases, it's also
> sufficient to simply increment the PID of the terminal emulator by 1, but
> there are many cases where that assumption could break down.
>
Thanks for the pointers. I'm almost there with a Go-based program that
takes the client.focus.pid. Except that I can't get the pid at all from
client.focus.pid:
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "Return",
function ()
awful.util.spawn("/home/myitcv/bin/newshell -p " ..
awful.client.focus.pid .. " '-e /home/myitcv/bin/unshare_mounts'")
end),
The error I get is:
stack traceback:
/home/myitcv/.config/awesome/rc.lua:260: in function 'press'
/usr/share/awesome/lib/awful/key.lua:42: in function
</usr/share/awesome/lib/awful/key.lua:42>
error: /home/myitcv/.config/awesome/rc.lua:260: attempt to concatenate
field 'pid' (a nil value)
But I hit this key combo with a window very much focussed.
Can someone point me in the right direction?
Thanks
