If you work in software, your work/life situation is probably a lot like mine right now. You wake up, do your morning things, sit down at your desk and awaken your machine, start some music, and work for 4 to 13 hours (depends on meetings). Then you put that machine to sleep, grab a different machine and go into a different room with it, start some different music, and do your thing there until you pass out on the couch. Such is the extent of pandemic life most days.
The crucial thing here is the music. The meetings. The moving from one room to another. You’re probably using your bluetooth speakers a lot. You’re probably sick of typing sequences like bluetoothct<tab> <enter> connec<tab> 48<tab> <enter> exit <enter> countless times a day.
So here’s a little script of dubious utility to save you from all that. It’s currently called bluetooth because you should never type this command. That would be counter to the spirit of this whole endeavor. Instead, put it somewhere your window manager can execute it and add two bindings, like:
# For dis/connecting with bluetooth devices.
bindsym $mod+b exec {path/to/}bluetooth connect
bindsym $mod+Shift+b exec {path/to/}bluetooth disconnect
Also, ensure your system has notify-send and dmenu (or equivalent). Also, ruby.
With this installed, when you move the couch for the evening, you can just type something like $mod+b kilbur<enter> and get on with it. You’re welcome.
Some of you may be asking: Why would you ever want to do any of this when you could just use the bluetooth applet in the panel? And I’d answer: I guess we have less in common than I thought.