How to print the name of the current kde activity alone? The activity bar displays all activities, highlighting the current one. I would find useful an unobtrusive widget to print the current activity name only.
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Welcome on U&L! Are you looking for a way to get the Activity name programmatically, e.g. for using it in a script? Or for a way to see the current Activity's name somewhere in the desktop area? Please, edit this information into your question.fra-san– fra-san2021-04-03 15:52:51 +00:00Commented Apr 3, 2021 at 15:52
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Using a widget (verbose instructions for future readers):
In Plasma Desktop's default panel (the bar at the bottom of the desktop), right-click on a free area and select "Add Widgets"; in the Widgets panel, search for "Activities"; drag the Activities widget to the panel. It is a relatively unobtrusive widget that shows the name of the current activity and opens the activity manager when clicked on.
Using D-Bus (noting that the question's first revision explicitly mentioned it):
CurrentActivity=$(dbus-send --session --dest=org.kde.ActivityManager \
--type=method_call --print-reply=literal /ActivityManager/Activities \
org.kde.ActivityManager.Activities.CurrentActivity | tr -d "[:blank:]")
dbus-send --session --dest=org.kde.ActivityManager --type=method_call \
--print-reply /ActivityManager/Activities \
org.kde.ActivityManager.Activities.ActivityInformation \
"string:$CurrentActivity"
You may want to use -print-reply=literal instead of -print-reply to reduce the amount of output. It can then be filtered, piping it through something like awk 'NR==2 {print $2}' to get the current activity's name only. Note, though, that activity names can include white spaces, tabs and double quotes, making dbus-send's output hard, if not impossible, to parse reliably in the general case.
