scratchpad-terminal

Scratch pad

A scratch pad terminal for quickly running a command on shell without having to start another instance of the terminal somewhere else and coming back.

Add the following rule to ~/.config/sxhkdrc

sxhkdrc

# scratchpad
alt + Return
    . ~/.config/bspwm/scpad

And add the following file bash file ~/.config/bspwm/scpad for launching the scratch pad

scpad

#!/usr/bin/env bash
 
winclass="$(xdotool search --class scpad)"
if [ -z "$winclass" ]; then
    alacritty --class scpad
else
    if [ ! -f /tmp/scpad ]; then
        touch /tmp/scpad && xdo hide "$winclass"
    elif [ -f /tmp/scpad ]; then
        rm /tmp/scpad && xdo show "$winclass"
    fi
fi

Finally add a bspwm rule here ~/.config/bsowm/bspwmrc

baspwmrc

bspc rule -a scpad sticky=on state=floating rectangle=800x500+550+200