If i launch an application lets say on workspace1 and switch to another workspace before the application has started, the application launches on the new workspace. Instead i would like the app. to stay at workspace1 Is it somehow possible to fix this?
This already works, if you use
i3-msg exec application
to start your application it will appear on the workspace on which you called it. See here
For example, if you are using dmenu_run to start your application you can use this instead:
#!/bin/sh
exe=`dmenu_path | dmenu ${1+"$@"}` && i3-msg "exec $exe"
does the behaviour of i3-msg exec application depends on the i3 version? the script runs but the behaviour is the same as the default setting edit: i compiled i3 from source and it works now but not with each programm. Is there a variable which contains the current worksp. so i can set it explict?
The User's guide and Flugsio mentioned that some apps that do not support this feature. You can retrieve the current workspace with `i3-msg -t get_workspaces`. This returns a list of all workspaces in JSON format. The current one has its "focused" flag set to true.
Not at the moment, (edit) unless the application is startup-notification aware; see Adaephon's answer. http://build.i3wm.org/docs/hacking-ho...usingcgroupsperworkspace
Although, you can pre-assign certain applications to workspaces http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#automaticallyputtingclientsonspecificworkspaces
I had completely missed that feature. But there are some exception as the document says. chromium won't work with cgroups but might be fixable with startup-notification awareness. urxvt could be solved with either. Using exec for those doesn't work for me at the moment. i3 version 4.6 2013-08-07
I wrote a python script to implement this. So here is my config:
bindsym $mod+d exec /path/to/script.py
And my script contains the following, apologies for the verbosity:
#!/usr/bin/python3
import subprocess
import json
from os.path import expanduser
def get_workspace():
test = subprocess.Popen(["i3-msg","-t","get_workspaces"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
output = test.communicate()[0]
data = json.loads(output.decode())
data = sorted(data, key=lambda k: k['name'])
for i in data:
if(i['focused']):
return i['name']
home = expanduser("~")
applications = open(home+"/.cache/dmenu_run")
dmenu_run = subprocess.Popen(["dmenu","-b"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stdin=applications)
output = (dmenu_run.communicate()[0]).decode().strip()
subprocess.Popen(["i3-msg","workspace "+get_workspace()+"; exec " + output], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
The script simply:
i3msg 'workspace <current>; exec <dmenu_result>' where current is the current workspace and dmenu_result is what you enter into the dmenu promptAsked: 2013-11-05 08:37:41 +0000
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Last updated: Feb 07 '14
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