https://faq.i3wm.org/questions/Frequently asked questions and answers about the i3 window managerenCopyright i3, 2012Thu, 08 Oct 2015 06:07:40 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/6847/context-sensitive-shortcuts/Hello, is it possible to have context sensitive shortcuts. E. g. a shortcut should only be possible to trigger if application A is (not) running. Best RegardsWed, 07 Oct 2015 23:28:13 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/6847/context-sensitive-shortcuts/https://faq.i3wm.org/question/6847/context-sensitive-shortcuts/?answer=6853#post-id-6853As @i3convert pointed out, this isn't possible directly. However, starting with 4.11 the `focus` command returns success depending on whether a window was focused. This allows something like this: [ "$(i3-msg '[class=\"firefox\"] focus')" = "[{\"success\":true\}]" ] || i3-msg exec firefox` Also see https://github.com/i3/i3/issues/1809 Thu, 08 Oct 2015 06:07:40 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/6847/context-sensitive-shortcuts/?answer=6853#post-id-6853https://faq.i3wm.org/question/6847/context-sensitive-shortcuts/?answer=6848#post-id-6848I don't think i3 directly provides this functionality. However, you can write a script that checks whether a given application is running (maybe checking the output of `ps -A` will be good enough in your case? read the man page for ps to fine-tune it), and triggers a given action only if it is (not) running. Then you bind the script to the shortcut you had in mind.Thu, 08 Oct 2015 02:01:25 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/6847/context-sensitive-shortcuts/?answer=6848#post-id-6848