command chaining in i3-input?

asked 2013-09-25 17:36:27 +0000

yoav
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I want to bind a key to query for input and perform a "complex" action based on that. Specifically, I want to both mark a window with a user-specified name AND send it to the scratchpad.

I tried both of the following options, and both did not work as intended:

bindsym $mod+Shift+minus exec --no-startup-id i3-input -P 'Mark window as:' -F "mark %s"; move to scratchpad

The problem with the above is that it sends the focused window the the scratchpad, and then marks the remaining, newly-focused window with the provided name. For some reason it does not wait for i3-input to return prior to performing the next action in the chain

I also tried:

bindsym $mod+Shift+minus exec --no-startup-id i3-input  -P 'Mark window as:' -F "mark %s; move to scratchpad"

Here i3 does not parse the line well, as it is confused by the ; inside the quotes.

Any tips on how to resolve this?