00:12 <elshize> here's another thing I've been struggling to configure: I use kile layout manager, and so I my config ends with `exec kile`. the thing is that I want to set some layout values with set-layout-value automatically at startup. but I have to do it after kile is started and ready to receive messages. what's the best approach?

00:13 <elshize> I suppose the best way would be for kile to take commandline arguments for values at startup, but it doesn't :/

00:20 <ifreund> elshize: river makes handling that the responsibility of the layout client currently. rivertile does this through some simple CLI flags as you seem to have noted. For something more complex like kile, an init script that is run once kile has started up and is ready to recieve commands might make more sense

00:21 <ifreund> anyhow, I think what you want is a new kile feature

00:23 <ifreund> goodnight o7

00:24 <elshize> ifreund: makes sense

01:40 <leon-p> elshize: just for completeness sake, your config does not have to end with `exec $layout_generator`. You can also just use riverctl spawn for that somewhere else in your init script. Then you can send the configuration commands afterwards.

02:00 <elshize> leon-p: yep, that's what I ended up doing, wrote a little bash script that spawns kile and makes sure to wait for it to start before sending the rest of the commands

11:38 <tsujp> leon-p why is your dotfiles repo private now :(

11:38 <tsujp> I was going to poach your rivertiler

11:39 <tsujp> on the topic of rivertile how can desktop 1 have a layout that is 3 columns equal split, and desktop 2 have a layout that is 2 rows equally split

11:39 <tsujp> does rivertile (a custom one) accept arguments for the desktop number?

11:40 <tsujp> that could help

11:43 <tsujp> oh, the tiler could instead ask river what desktop it's on right?

11:46 <leon-p> tsujp: because it's ancient and no longer up-to-date. I have a new config repo (https://git.sr.ht/~leon_plickat/river-config/tree) but I am still experimenting with a good directory format that makes deploying configs as simple as possible, so expect changes.

11:47 <leon-p> tsujp: and my layout generator is this one: https://git.sr.ht/~leon_plickat/stacktile

11:48 <tsujp> how do per tags layouts work?

11:49 <tsujp> i was having a look at kile: https://github.com/snakedye/kile and I cannot see any mention

11:50 <leon-p> tsujp: the layout generator knows which tags are active. So it's the job of the developers of layout generators to make that happen.

11:55 <tsujp> looks like kile might have tag-specific layout if I understand this correctly: https://gitlab.com/snakedye/kile/-/blob/main/doc/kile.1.scd#L74