Devour: X11 Window Swallower

Devour hides your current window before launching an external program and unhides it after quitting.
Devour was inspired by sw and is a successor to devour.sh

Demonstration done by DistroTube

Dependencies

• Xlib (client-side header files)

Installation

AUR

yay -S --noconfirm devour
# or
yay -S --noconfirm devour-git # Nightly

Git

git clone https://github.com/salman-abedin/devour.git && cd devour && sudo make install

Usage

devour CMD ...

Patches

• Shell aliases. (ex. devour z FILE instead of devour zathura FILE)

cd devour
patch -s < devour-shellalias-10.0.diff    # Add the feature
patch -s -R < devour-shellalias-10.0.diff # Remove the feature
sudo make install                      # Reinstall

Pro Tip

Devour from your file explorer instead of the shell.
Watch my demo and notice how seamless it is compared to devouring from the shell.

Hint: If you are one of those unfortunate souls who uses xdg-open instead of a custom launch script, then go to your ~/.local/share/applications directory and modify the applications you launch from your file explorer like below and enjoy the true devouring experience.

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=PDF Reader
Exec=/usr/local/bin/devour /usr/bin/zathura %U

Update

cd devour
git pull --no-rebase && sudo make install

Uninstallation

cd devour
sudo make uninstall

Logs

• 21/06/20:- Added support for names with spaces

• 07/07/20:- Added support for shell aliases

• 03/08/20:- Rewrote the shellscript in C

• 23/08/20:- Made additional features optional using patching

• 08/11/20:- Added support for all unsafe characters

Contributors

• keni7385 (AUR package submitter/maintainer)

• agnipau

• HawaiinPizza

• sbuller

• AriaMoradi

• durcor

TO-DOs

• Authentic swallowing

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puri	Minimal URL launcher
Magpie	The dotfiles
Alfred	The scripts

Contact

SalmanAbedin@disroot.org