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asked 2013-05-15 14:36:16 +0000

iomartin
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Hello,

There are some websites that I like to keep running in their own windows (instead of tabs), and dedicate a workspace for them (a music workspace, a webmail workspace, etc.). Therefore, I have created simple shell scripts such as

#!/bin/bash
firefox -new-window www.jazzradio.com/guitarjazz

to launch them and added them to my PATH. On my config file, however, I already have

assign [class="Firefox"] 2. www

which opens generic Firefox on the 2. www workspace. How could I configure i3 to open these specific pages in the right workspaces?

I though about using i3-msg, but I figured that even if I change to the correct workspace, when I launch the script it will recognize it as Firefox window and will apply the assign configured in the config file.

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generally, have you considered spreading your browser windows across your workspaces (like treating any website as an application)? because, first, you want to have a radio web application seperated, next can be anything?

dosimple ( 2013-05-16 12:36:51 +0000 )edit

I'm not sure I got what you mean. Yes, I want to spread my browser windows across workspaces, one for a radio web application, one for webmail and another for general browsing.

iomartin ( 2013-05-16 12:47:42 +0000 )edit

sorry for the abiguity, i meant reconsidering the `assign [class="Firefox"] 2. www` line altogether, to be direct.

dosimple ( 2013-05-16 13:08:21 +0000 )edit

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answered 2013-05-15 14:43:21 +0000

badboy_
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As specified in command_criteria you can also match on title:

[class="Firefox" title="(?i)jazzradio.com"] 3.jazzradio

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great, thanks! I just had to change the regex a little to match it.

iomartin ( 2013-05-15 15:33:37 +0000 )edit

Actually, I just realized that this was throwing all my Firefox instances to the jazzradio workspace. I think this is related to the fact that I use Vimperator, as noted in the documentation.

iomartin ( 2013-05-15 17:27:51 +0000 )edit

I removed Vimperator, but that didn't solve it. Assigning based on the title doesn't work, since Firefox always creates the windows as "Mozilla Firefox" and only later changes their name - but by then i3 has already catched the window and placed it in the appropriate (current) window.

iomartin ( 2013-05-27 13:30:07 +0000 )edit

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answered 2013-05-27 18:15:41 +0000

iomartin
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Not exactly pretty, but what I did was to remove the Firefox assignment from the config. Then I modified my shell script to the following

CURRENT_WORKSPACE=$(i3_current_workspace_focused.py)
i3-msg "workspace 10. ♪"
firefox -new-window www.jazzradio.com/guitarjazz
sleep 1
i3-msg "workspace $CURRENT_WORKSPACE"

where i3_current_workspace_focused,py is

#!/usr/bin/python

from commands import getoutput
import json

workspaces = getoutput("i3-msg -t get_workspaces")
workspaces = json.loads(workspaces)

for w in workspaces:
    if w['visible'] == True and w['focused'] == True:
        print w['name']
        break

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