Global shortcut to bring up npPY. #164

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1. grandfso commented on Jan 21, 2019

   

   grandfso

   on Jan 21, 2019

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   Hi there @yuuki0xff
   I was thinking about workaround for this, because lack of the global shortcut makes my life miserable. The workaround I was thinking is - I can configure custom global shortcut on my system, to launch specific command. I was thinking that I can use this feature, but it seems that nvpy command by default doesn't check if there is an instance already running. So the current behavior for me, seems to be that whenever I run the nvpy command, a new instance is launched. Is there some switch available to suppress launching of the second instance and bring up the existing one ?
2. grandfso commented on Jul 15, 2019

   

   grandfso

   on Jul 15, 2019

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   Hacked my way around it. Posting here maybe someone will find it useful.

   This works on linux, and assumes you have the wmctrl and pgrep package installed. I tested arch linux with gnome.

   create a bash script:

   #!/bin/bash
   
   pidNo="$(pgrep -f 'python2 -m nvpy')"
   echo $pidNo
   if [ -z "$pidNo" ]
   then
       echo "Execution of a script"
       python2 -m nvpy &
       exit 1
   else
       echo "Activate the PID"
       wmctrl -a nvPy
   fi
   

   Then assign shortcut to this script. When NVPY is not running, it will launch it. If it is running, it will unminimize/bring the window to foreground :)

   edit: there's a small bug, if there are more windows with nvpy in the window title (e.g. browser with this git repo open in an active tab), the script will not know which window to unminimize. In my case, it unminimizes the browser.
3. yuuki0xff

   self-assigned this

   on Jul 16, 2019
4. x3cca commented on Nov 6, 2019

   

   x3cca

   on Nov 6, 2019

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   I use alt+n as shortcut for nvpy. I have a separate autohotkey script that manages this. Place it in the same folder as the nvpy repo after compiling.

   !n::
   SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir%
   if WinExist("nvPY") {
   	WinActivate
   }
   if !WinExist("nvPY") {
   	Run %A_ScriptDir%/dist/nvpy/nvpy.exe
   }
   return
   

   Direct support would be nice but here's another work-around for Windows in the meantime.