programs not starting; layout not restoring

[peajack]

This script is just what I needed, but now I can't manage it to work. Say, I made a simple layout (peaclock, cmus and shell). I saved it with swayrst save startup. I added exec swayrst load startup to end of my .config/sway/config, but the windows aren't loading. I tried swayrst -v load startup manually, and it says the next

Window peaclock already in correct workspace 1
Window cmus v2.11.0 already in correct workspace 1
Window swayrst save startup already in correct workspace 1
Total windows: 2
Left 2 untouched
Touched: 0:

...but my workspace had only kitty openned at the moment of running load. What am I doing wrong?

[Nama]

swayrst doesn't start applications (but there seems to be a lot of ppl interested in it).
The windows need to be opened already before running swayrst. So putting it in your sway config does nothing.
Edit: Might work in sway config, cause of the two seconds delay swayrst has. Windows taking longer to start will not be affected tho.

The idea behind swayrst is, that you can have your WS and windows on the same usual place after plugging in or out a display (or docking or undocking your notebook). So you would save a profile docked and undocked and swayrst would move everything in its place.

For startup, I'd use the for_window rules in the sway config. (But you can make swayrst work on startup with kanshi.)

...but my workspace had only kitty openned at the moment of running load. What am I doing wrong?

But the debug output says otherwise... There weren't any "not found" windows.

Also, then you say "layout", you don't mean the window arrangement in a workspace? That's not supported (yet).

[peajack]

Ah, so it isn't really the thing that I need? Sad, will search more then. Still thank you!

[peajack]

I found what I needed - wezterm!

[Nama]

could you describe what you mean and how wezterm helps you?
maybe open a discussion, would be really helpful!

[peajack]

local wezterm = require("wezterm")
local mux = wezterm.mux
local config = wezterm.config_builder()

config.font = wezterm.font("Iosevka Term")
config.color_scheme = "Gruvbox dark, pale (base16)"

config.hide_tab_bar_if_only_one_tab = true

wezterm.on("gui-startup", function(cmd)
	local project_dir = wezterm.home_dir .. "/Projects"
	local tab, main_pane, window = mux.spawn_window({
		workspace = "default",
		cwd = project_dir,
	})
	local cmus_pane = main_pane:split({
		direction = "Bottom",
		size = 0.2,
		cwd = project_dir,
	})
	local peaclock_pane = cmus_pane:split({
		direction = "Right",
		size = 0.3,
		cwd = project_dir,
	})

	cmus_pane:send_text("cmus\n")
	peaclock_pane:send_text("peaclock\n")
end)

return config

this config autostarts and aligns windows in order that I need. it looks like this