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i3 FAQ - Individual question feedhttps://faq.i3wm.org/questions/Frequently asked questions and answers about the i3 window managerenCopyright i3, 2012Mon, 10 Nov 2014 21:44:22 +0000the use of hangoutshttps://faq.i3wm.org/question/3559/the-use-of-hangouts/Hi, it's just to have some reviews of your hangouts (chat from Google) use. I, personnaly, am a very big fan of i3 which I use for one year now without finding a better WM but a point is very displeasing, it is the use of hangouts : I have to put the chats boxes on a reserved workspace everytime a new conversation starts and pops in the middle of my others windows. Or passing them from tilled to floated windows and manage them isn't very comfortable and does not fix the problem of new conversations. Also, in fullscreen they are very, very in unpleasant position... I can't find a way to use them correctly. I know that i3 is a tilling's manager, but for hangouts, it would be great to use them like in any other WM. Just attached at the bottom of the Google Chrome's browser. Some of you have already found their way to use them correctly. Please share your configurations, screenshots or opinions. Thx to you and thx to i3 to existsMon, 24 Mar 2014 20:31:42 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3559/the-use-of-hangouts/Comment by TonyC for Hi, it's just to have some reviews of your hangouts (chat from Google) use. I, personnaly, am a very big fan of i3 which I use for one year now without finding a better WM but a point is very displeasing, it is the use of hangouts : I have to put the chats boxes on a reserved workspace everytime a new conversation starts and pops in the middle of my others windows. Or passing them from tilled to floated windows and manage them isn't very comfortable and does not fix the problem of new conversations. Also, in fullscreen they are very, very in unpleasant position... I can't find a way to use them correctly. I know that i3 is a tilling's manager, but for hangouts, it would be great to use them like in any other WM. Just attached at the bottom of the Google Chrome's browser. Some of you have already found their way to use them correctly. Please share your configurations, screenshots or opinions. Thx to you and thx to i3 to exists https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3559/the-use-of-hangouts/?comment=3567#comment-3567I think most of these windows that should be opened floating will open correctly without any additional configuration in the next version to be released.Mon, 24 Mar 2014 23:49:50 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3559/the-use-of-hangouts/?comment=3567#comment-3567Comment by tinh for Hi, it's just to have some reviews of your hangouts (chat from Google) use. I, personnaly, am a very big fan of i3 which I use for one year now without finding a better WM but a point is very displeasing, it is the use of hangouts : I have to put the chats boxes on a reserved workspace everytime a new conversation starts and pops in the middle of my others windows. Or passing them from tilled to floated windows and manage them isn't very comfortable and does not fix the problem of new conversations. Also, in fullscreen they are very, very in unpleasant position... I can't find a way to use them correctly. I know that i3 is a tilling's manager, but for hangouts, it would be great to use them like in any other WM. Just attached at the bottom of the Google Chrome's browser. Some of you have already found their way to use them correctly. Please share your configurations, screenshots or opinions. Thx to you and thx to i3 to exists https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3559/the-use-of-hangouts/?comment=3568#comment-3568Oh wonderful! How can I be in touch with this date? Can't wait! ;)Tue, 25 Mar 2014 00:33:14 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3559/the-use-of-hangouts/?comment=3568#comment-3568Comment by TonyC for Hi, it's just to have some reviews of your hangouts (chat from Google) use. I, personnaly, am a very big fan of i3 which I use for one year now without finding a better WM but a point is very displeasing, it is the use of hangouts : I have to put the chats boxes on a reserved workspace everytime a new conversation starts and pops in the middle of my others windows. Or passing them from tilled to floated windows and manage them isn't very comfortable and does not fix the problem of new conversations. Also, in fullscreen they are very, very in unpleasant position... I can't find a way to use them correctly. I know that i3 is a tilling's manager, but for hangouts, it would be great to use them like in any other WM. Just attached at the bottom of the Google Chrome's browser. Some of you have already found their way to use them correctly. Please share your configurations, screenshots or opinions. Thx to you and thx to i3 to exists https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3559/the-use-of-hangouts/?comment=3573#comment-3573You can find the mailing lists [here](http://i3wm.org/contact/).Wed, 26 Mar 2014 04:09:09 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3559/the-use-of-hangouts/?comment=3573#comment-3573Answer by vivien for Hi, it's just to have some reviews of your hangouts (chat from Google) use. I, personnaly, am a very big fan of i3 which I use for one year now without finding a better WM but a point is very displeasing, it is the use of hangouts : I have to put the chats boxes on a reserved workspace everytime a new conversation starts and pops in the middle of my others windows. Or passing them from tilled to floated windows and manage them isn't very comfortable and does not fix the problem of new conversations. Also, in fullscreen they are very, very in unpleasant position... I can't find a way to use them correctly. I know that i3 is a tilling's manager, but for hangouts, it would be great to use them like in any other WM. Just attached at the bottom of the Google Chrome's browser. Some of you have already found their way to use them correctly. Please share your configurations, screenshots or opinions. Thx to you and thx to i3 to exists https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3559/the-use-of-hangouts/?answer=3560#post-id-3560Hi tinh, In your config, set a workspace for Hangouts, and add rules to force the popup to be float and move to this workspace. See: 1) http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#_automatically_putting_clients_on_specific_workspaces 2) http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#_arbitrary_commands_for_specific_windows_for_window 3) http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#_changing_named_workspaces_moving_to_workspacesMon, 24 Mar 2014 20:46:01 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3559/the-use-of-hangouts/?answer=3560#post-id-3560Comment by tinh for Hi tinh, In your config, set a workspace for Hangouts, and add rules to force the popup to be float and move to this workspace. See: 1) <a href="http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html">http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#</a>automaticallyputtingclientsonspecificworkspaces 2) <a href="http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html">http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#</a>arbitrarycommandsforspecificwindowsforwindow 3) <a href="http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html">http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#</a>changingnamedworkspacesmovingto_workspaces https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3559/the-use-of-hangouts/?comment=3562#comment-3562thx it helps a lot, do you know if there is a way (not so tricky) to have a container of floating windows who act like one lonely floating window?Mon, 24 Mar 2014 22:02:48 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3559/the-use-of-hangouts/?comment=3562#comment-3562Comment by vivien for Hi tinh, In your config, set a workspace for Hangouts, and add rules to force the popup to be float and move to this workspace. See: 1) <a href="http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html">http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#</a>automaticallyputtingclientsonspecificworkspaces 2) <a href="http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html">http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#</a>arbitrarycommandsforspecificwindowsforwindow 3) <a href="http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html">http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#</a>changingnamedworkspacesmovingto_workspaces https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3559/the-use-of-hangouts/?comment=3564#comment-3564Yes, make the parent container floating. For instance, with 2 split windows, focus the parent ($mod+a by default) and make it float. You'll have to script that with `i3-msg`.Mon, 24 Mar 2014 22:45:02 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3559/the-use-of-hangouts/?comment=3564#comment-3564Comment by exhuma for Hi tinh, In your config, set a workspace for Hangouts, and add rules to force the popup to be float and move to this workspace. See: 1) <a href="http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html">http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#</a>automaticallyputtingclientsonspecificworkspaces 2) <a href="http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html">http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#</a>arbitrarycommandsforspecificwindowsforwindow 3) <a href="http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html">http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#</a>changingnamedworkspacesmovingto_workspaces https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3559/the-use-of-hangouts/?comment=4634#comment-4634This post is quite unreadable. Can you not make the links at least clickable please?Wed, 17 Sep 2014 09:02:40 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3559/the-use-of-hangouts/?comment=4634#comment-4634Comment by tinh for Hi tinh, In your config, set a workspace for Hangouts, and add rules to force the popup to be float and move to this workspace. See: 1) <a href="http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html">http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#</a>automaticallyputtingclientsonspecificworkspaces 2) <a href="http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html">http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#</a>arbitrarycommandsforspecificwindowsforwindow 3) <a href="http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html">http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#</a>changingnamedworkspacesmovingto_workspaces https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3559/the-use-of-hangouts/?comment=3565#comment-3565great thank youMon, 24 Mar 2014 22:49:55 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3559/the-use-of-hangouts/?comment=3565#comment-3565Answer by flazzarini for Hi, it's just to have some reviews of your hangouts (chat from Google) use. I, personnaly, am a very big fan of i3 which I use for one year now without finding a better WM but a point is very displeasing, it is the use of hangouts : I have to put the chats boxes on a reserved workspace everytime a new conversation starts and pops in the middle of my others windows. Or passing them from tilled to floated windows and manage them isn't very comfortable and does not fix the problem of new conversations. Also, in fullscreen they are very, very in unpleasant position... I can't find a way to use them correctly. I know that i3 is a tilling's manager, but for hangouts, it would be great to use them like in any other WM. Just attached at the bottom of the Google Chrome's browser. Some of you have already found their way to use them correctly. Please share your configurations, screenshots or opinions. Thx to you and thx to i3 to exists https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3559/the-use-of-hangouts/?answer=4935#post-id-4935Although this is a really old question I wanted to provide the solution I applied to force the **Google Chrome Hangout Plugin** to be displayed on a specific workspace of mine. After investigating the window properties with *xprop* I found only two really useful properties which were - WM_NAME = "Hangouts" - WM_WINDOW_ROLE = "pop-up" so I transformed these properties to the following i3 *for_window* configuration for_window [title="Hangouts"] move container to workspace 4 fow_window [role="pop-up"] floating enabled This will enable *floating* on all Windows being of role "pop-up" and move the window having *hangouts* as title to workspace 4.Mon, 10 Nov 2014 21:44:22 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3559/the-use-of-hangouts/?answer=4935#post-id-4935