Show all workspaces, including inactive workspaces in i3bar

asked 2013-08-02 15:09:23 +0000

nooksandcorners
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I've recently started using i3. I'm thoroughly pleased with its performance, except for one thing. I like to have all the workspaces visible in i3bar, irrespective of whether they are active or focused or not. That is, I want even inactive workspaces to show up in the list, along with other relevant ones (such as the ones focused or active). Please let me know if this is possible and if so, please include details on how to achieve this configuration. Any help is appreciated.

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answered 2013-10-10 00:31:45 +0000

BatmanAoD
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By default, i3bar does show all extant workspaces.

However, it cannot possibly show all potential workspaces. The command i3-msg workspace ##, where ## is some arbitrary integer, will open up workspace ##. (I say "arbitrary" because although I don't know if there are any limits on how large ## can be, I successfully tried it with 25818446744073709551615, and it worked just fine.)

In other words, there are an unlimited number of workspaces that could exist, so it would be impossible to show them all at any given time.