Questions about uwsm app

[fufexan]

I've been in the process of integrating uwsm into my desktop experience since the discussion in Hyprland. So far I've done the first part, aka starting Hyprland via uwsm. The second part would entail launching apps through uwsm app.

I currently use anyrun as my runner. It does not have a --launch-prefix option like fuzzel does, but I've been integrating it myself. I've hit a roadblock in deciding whether to pass Exec or the Desktop Entry path to uwsm app -- (or the launch_prefix, to be precise). Is there any benefit to using one over the other?

The next question would be how to handle starting terminal applications from anyrun:

1. sh -c ${terminal} -e ${launch_prefix} ${entry.exec} (or ${entry.path}, if that's more appropriate)
2. sh -c ${launch_prefix} ${terminal} -e ${entry.exec}

[Vladimir-csp]

Command line or Desktop Entry: the main difference is resulting unit's metadata. If Desktop Entry is given, its Name and Comment are used, plus arguments are parsed according to the spec if the entry has fields for them.
Also uwsm app and app2unit have terminal support (if Entry has Terminal=true, or -T argument is given, app will be launched in deafault terminal according to a proposed spec).

Is using path to entries a NixOS thing? ID is usually enough.

[fufexan]

Is using path to entries a NixOS thing? ID is usually enough.

No, it's just that anyrun already has the path, but not the ID (basename).

Also uwsm app and app2unit have terminal support (if Entry has Terminal=true, or -T argument is given, app will be launched in deafault terminal according to a proposed spec).

If this is the case, then I'll make another uwsm-specific application plugin rather than try to modify the current one.

[Vladimir-csp]

No, it's just that anyrun already has the path, but not the ID (basename).

Ah, ok, in this case the path is preferable, no need to search the entry if file is already known.

[fufexan]

Thanks for the clarifications!