IPC · Slowshell

Slowshell creates a UDS at $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/slowshell.sock before falling back to /tmp/slowshell.sock.

Using the slowshell command

slowshell ipc is a small helper to help you communicate with slowshell WITHOUT doing something like echo -n "exec spotlight.toggle" | socat - UNIX-CONNECT:/tmp/slowshell.sock.

slowshell ipc spotlight.toggle
slowshell ipc panel.main.toggle

Cool, what's the point?

It's for any external application to be able to communicate with slowshell. For example, if you want to bind a key into a slowshell action within your compositor (in this example niri), you could use slowshell ipc:

// niri/config.kdl
Mod+A hotkey-overlay-title="Slowshell Spotlight" {
  spawn "slowshell" "ipc" "spotlight.toggle"
}

Commands

IPC Commands are events that can be triggered via IPC, for example you can create a panel via panel.create.

These commands are special events that modules define in order to expose for IPC and/or the spotlight command palette.

What are the available commands?

Most IPC commands are provided via modules, so here's a list of the built-in IPC commands introduces via modules: