i3 FAQ - Individual question feedhttps://faq.i3wm.org/questions/Frequently asked questions and answers about the i3 window managerenCopyright i3, 2012Tue, 21 Oct 2014 09:50:51 +0000how to define a command to kill all terminals in current workspacehttps://faq.i3wm.org/question/4807/how-to-define-a-command-to-kill-all-terminals-in-current-workspace/Sometimes I want to kill all terminals in one workspace. When there are only terminals in the workspace, I keep pressing kill windows's hotkey repeatly. Is there a programmable interface to define such command myself? Find windows matching some condition (class/title/on-workspace), then run some action on them (e.g. kill them).Tue, 21 Oct 2014 01:28:01 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/4807/how-to-define-a-command-to-kill-all-terminals-in-current-workspace/Answer by TonyC for <p>Sometimes I want to kill all terminals in one workspace. When there are only terminals in the workspace, I keep pressing kill windows's hotkey repeatly.</p> <p>Is there a programmable interface to define such command myself? Find windows matching some condition (class/title/on-workspace), then run some action on them (e.g. kill them).</p> https://faq.i3wm.org/question/4807/how-to-define-a-command-to-kill-all-terminals-in-current-workspace/?answer=4808#post-id-4808You could write a script, such as with [i3ipc-glib](https://github.com/acrisci/i3ipc-glib), like this: from gi.repository import i3ipc i3 = i3ipc.Connection() for con in i3.get_tree().find_focused().workspace().find_classed('URxvt'): con.command('kill') Tue, 21 Oct 2014 02:56:24 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/4807/how-to-define-a-command-to-kill-all-terminals-in-current-workspace/?answer=4808#post-id-4808Comment by sylecn for <p>You could write a script, such as with <a href="https://github.com/acrisci/i3ipc-glib">i3ipc-glib</a>, like this:</p> <pre><code>from gi.repository import i3ipc i3 = i3ipc.Connection() for con in i3.get_tree().find_focused().workspace().find_classed('URxvt'): con.command('kill') </code></pre> https://faq.i3wm.org/question/4807/how-to-define-a-command-to-kill-all-terminals-in-current-workspace/?comment=4810#comment-4810That's the kind of information I was looking for. Thanks.Tue, 21 Oct 2014 09:50:51 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/4807/how-to-define-a-command-to-kill-all-terminals-in-current-workspace/?comment=4810#comment-4810