dotfiles/sxhkd/.local/bin/sxhkd-piped

#!/usr/bin/env sh
# Starting sxhkd without arguments automatically creates
# a fifo pipe in XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, to enable IPC for sxhkd.
# Mostly used for sxhkd-chain-labels script.

type sxhkd >/dev/null 2>&1 || {
  return 1
}

# get the complete path to sxhkd to avoid
# recursion later on
PROG="$(type sxhkd)"
PROG="${PROG##* }"

FIFO="$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"/sxhkd_fifo

# create a fifo and start sxhkd with it
sxhkd() {
  exist "$PROG" critical

  if [ -n "$1" ]; then
    "$PROG" "$@"
  else
    [ -e "$FIFO" ] && rm "$FIFO"

    mkfifo "$FIFO"
    "$PROG" -s "$FIFO"
  fi
}

sxhkd "$@"