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I'm trying to figure out how to make the Pidgin windows into a dock-style thing. Conversation window on the left of a workspace, taking up about 80%. Buddy list on the right taking up the remaining 20%. These are the rules I've come up with, but nothing seems to happen when I launch Pidgin:

for_window [window_role="buddy_list"] focus; resize shrink width 50 ppt
for_window [window_role="conversation"] focus; move absolute left

I should note that the i3 user guide doesn't explicitly say what "absolute" does, but it seems to make another 50/50 layout work for me (or maybe I'm just lucky).

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answered Aug 11 '12

psvo
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Following works for me. I have only Pidgin on desktop and only one conversation window with tabs.

for_window [class="^Pidgin$" window_role="^conversation$"] resize grow width 0 px or 30 ppt

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Ahhh thanks, this fixes the size problem, but how can i force the buddy list window to be on the right side?

styx (Aug 20 '12)edit

for_window [class="^Pidgin$" window_role="^conversation$"] resize grow width 0 px or 30 ppt; move left I *think* this should work, but I feel like if the conversation window pops up while you're focused on another window, it might move the focused window left instead of the convo window.

0x000000 (Aug 31 '12)edit

for_window [class="^Pidgin$" window_role="^conversation$"] resize grow width 0 px or 30 ppt; move left

0x000000 (Aug 31 '12)edit

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answered Aug 8 '12

styx
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Im also very interested in this. Does someone have a solution?

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answered Jul 16 '12

Michael
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move absoluteis only for floating windows (and it emits a warning in the logfile, see http://i3wm.org/docs/debugging.html ). In general, there is something fishy going on with for_window and these kinds of commands, but I haven’t looked into it yet.

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Right on, thanks. But is there a way to do what I want to do?

0x000000 (Jul 31 '12)edit

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Custom layout for Pidgin

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