Load config file after startup

[dominiklohmann]

Suggestion

I was trying to make yabai register every window by running this command in my yabairc. This fails, because the query system is initialised after the configuration file is loaded.

I think the only feature that needs to be initialised after loading the config file is the status bar, as its config options cannot be set during runtime.

# visit all spaces once, then return to visible and focused spaces like before
yabai -m query --spaces \
    | jq "sort_by(.focused, .visible) | .[].index" \
    | xargs -I{} yabai -m space --focus {}

[koekeishiya]

There is one slight problem with doing this - window border changes don't affect already created windows. I don't remember any other reasons at the moment for why initialization happens in this order.

[dominiklohmann]

This brings back something I've thought about a while ago:

Support the XDG base directory spec: Check for the configuration file in the following places (in order):

• ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/yabai/config
• ${HOME}/.config/yabai/config
• ${HOME}/.yabairc

This could then be extended to search for another optional file in the yabai config directory (if it is used over a .yabairc file) that is executed after yabai finished initialising.

.config/yabai/
├── config        # loaded during init
└── autoload      # loaded after init

[koekeishiya]

This could then be extended to search for another optional file in the yabai config directory (if it is used over a .yabairc file) that is executed after yabai finished initialising.

I think the correct solution for this issue is to make the remaining config settings able to run without having to care which init state yabai is currently in, and then make execution of the config file happen at the end when all other things that need to happen have finished.

Created issue #125 for XDG_CONFIG_HOME.

[koekeishiya]

Fixed on master. The config is now ran asynchronously by yabai after all initialization and whatever has finished. Because of this I have also made it so that every single command can now be used at runtime with immediate effect.

Edit: I tested that your script works as intended after making these changes.