Flicker on removing and adding notifications from eww

[VixieTSQ]

The notification-frame window will flicker on every update from end. This is because end calls eww open even when the window is already open, which (oddly) causes the window to reload.

[lucalabs-de]

I've seen this in the eww issues before. Apparently this only happens on some WMs. With bspwm it works fine. Interestingly, there's the issue elkowar/eww#260 which was fixed. Apparently there has been a regression.

The question is how to fix this on our end (lol). Is there a command that gives you the state of the eww window? Just keeping track of it with a boolean flag seems too fragile since you can also close the window manually.

[lucalabs-de]

Okay, it seems that eww debug contains a field called open_windows that we can use.

[VixieTSQ]

The question is how to fix this on our end (lol). Is there a command that gives you the state of the eww window? Just keeping track of it with a boolean flag seems too fragile since you can also close the window manually.

In a shell script I was writing, I just did this hacky little thing

if [ "$(eww active-windows | grep 'indicator-frame')" == "" ]
then
    eww open indicator-frame
fi

[lucalabs-de]

Oh, I'm blind, I did not see that command on the help page. Even better.