mrsafalpiya / sphidewin

Hide/Unmap windows in X11

sphidewin

Hide/Unmap windows in X11.

Features

• Hides any newly spawned window with the given property.
• Can also hide previously spawned windows.
• Automatically unhides/maps them on exit.

Installation

Assuming proper golang setup, simply clone this repo, change directory to repo's directory and run the following command:

$ go install

Usage

$ sphidewin --help
sphidewin [options] WM_CLASS

where [options] are:
  -h    Show help message
  -help
        Show help message
  -p    Unmap previously spawned windows

Example

Running the above command

$ sphidewin chromium

And opening chromium shows the following output:

$ sphidewin chromium
2023/01/29 22:48:59 [chromium Chromium] 48234498 unmapped

And the chromium window is never shown.

Press Ctrl-C to unhide the chromium window.

$ sphidewin chromium
2023/01/29 22:48:59 [chromium Chromium] 48234498 unmapped
^C2023/01/29 22:55:19 Mapped 48234498

License

GPLv3. See COPYING.