Sometimes I launch a long process in an application that once finished will popup a window.
Usually in this case, I switch to another workspace and do something else. But as soon as the task is finished the popup window appears, steal the focus and receive the keys and everything else.
The behaviour I would have expected is that the popup window appears on the workspace of the parent that created it.
I’d recommend to use the urgency hint instead of a popup window. That way, the workspace (and window) will be highlighted in red and you won’t have focus stealing.
i3 does not support the exact feature you are asking for out of the box.
A simple workaround would be to use assign to force certain applications to open all their windows on the same workspace:
assign [class="AppWithPopups1"] SomeWorkspace
assign [class="AppWithPopups2"] SomeOtherWorkspace
Also, in more recent versions of i3 a workspace will be marked as urgent if a window is opened on it while the workspace is not visible. This way you will also know immediately when and which application opened a new window.
Asked: 2013-11-21 23:33:12 +0000
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Last updated: Jan 13
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