List of Currently Opened Tabs?

[Chris Salzberg]

Hi

Just jumping in, but I have a setup on i3wm where through the i3 IPC I 
send an ordered history of recently-opened windows to an open port on 
localhost so I can then pick them up from other scripts.

One of those scripts just filters for "qutebrowser" and returns all the 
open qutebrowser "tabs". I use this from rofi to get me a list of open 
browser windows, most recently opened on the top.

One tricky thing is that for this setup I need to include the i3 window 
id (con_id) in the script that returns the windows to rofi, otherwise I 
can't actually find back the window from the script (I have no way to 
identify it).

I'd be curious to hear if anybody else has found other ways to do this.

Chris

On 01/29 at 22:54, Matt wrote:
>I suppose you use a tiling WM ? in which case you could force every
>new tab as a new window and use rofi window switcher (works for
>i3wm.com, not sure for other WM though).
>Then I am not sure qutebrowser is capable of syncing history between
>instances (like zsh or neovim do) ? which can be annoying
>
>2016-01-29 10:54 GMT+01:00 Florian Bruhin <me at the-compiler.org>:
>> Hey,
>>
>> * Stefan Tatschner <rumpelsepp at sevenbyte.org> [2016-01-29 10:28:51 +0100]:
>>> I often have a lot of tabs open in qutebrowser. So I am looking for a
>>> solution to deal better with a lot of tabs. I have come to the idea that
>>> some dmenu/rofi userscript would be fine.
>>
>> IMHO ideally this would be integrated into qutebrowser's completion,
>> see this issue: https://github.com/The-Compiler/qutebrowser/issues/32
>>
>> Unfortunately I'm working on stuff which is higher priority right now,
>> probably for some more months (tests, QtWebEngine, per domain
>> settings, plugins).
>>
>> I'm still hoping someone will contribute that one ;)
>>
>>> That script should get a list of all currently opened tabs, pipe it into
>>> dmenu/rofi and finally send some "please change to tab number soandso"
>>> command to qutebrowser.
>>>
>>> I have not yet found a qutebrowser command to get a list of all opened
>>> tabs. Am I missing something?
>>
>> There isn't. You'd typically do this via an userscript, and there's
>> currently no way for an userscript to request more information (or get
>> "answers" to commands it sends).
>>
>> qutebrowser could expose this information to userscripts via an
>> environment variable, e.g. some $QUTE_TABS variable set to something
>> like:
>>
>> 0 0 url title of first tab in first window
>> 0 1 url title of second tab in first window
>> [...]
>>
>> The problem with that approach is that it might be too much data for
>> an environment variable, so maybe $QUTE_TABS would need to be a
>> filename of a temporary file, like $QUTE_HTML and $QUTE_TEXT is.
>>
>> Then again I'm not sure how much it makes sense to shoehorn all
>> possible usecases into somewhat fragile userscripts. I'd rather see
>> plugins written in Python (or possibly JS at some later point), but it
>> might still take a while until that's ready.
>>
>> Florian
>>
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