tinh
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Hi,

it's just to have some reviews of your hangouts (chat from Google) use. I, personnaly, am a very big fan of i3 which I use for one year now without finding a better WM but a point is very displeasing, it is the use of hangouts : I have to put the chats boxes on a reserved workspace everytime a new conversation starts and pops in the middle of my others windows. Or passing them from tilled to floated windows and manage them isn't very comfortable and does not fix the problem of new conversations. Also, in fullscreen they are very, very in unpleasant position...

I can't find a way to use them correctly. I know that i3 is a tilling's manager, but for hangouts, it would be great to use them like in any other WM. Just attached at the bottom of the Google Chrome's browser.

Some of you have already found their way to use them correctly.

Please share your configurations, screenshots or opinions. Thx to you and thx to i3 to exists

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I think most of these windows that should be opened floating will open correctly without any additional configuration in the next version to be released.

TonyC ( 2014-03-24 23:49:50 +0000 )edit

Oh wonderful! How can I be in touch with this date? Can't wait! ;)

tinh ( 2014-03-25 00:33:14 +0000 )edit

You can find the mailing lists [here](http://i3wm.org/contact/).

TonyC ( 2014-03-26 04:09:09 +0000 )edit

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answered 2014-03-24 20:46:01 +0000

vivien
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Hi tinh,

In your config, set a workspace for Hangouts, and add rules to force the popup to be float and move to this workspace.

See:

1) http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#automaticallyputtingclientsonspecificworkspaces 2) http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#arbitrarycommandsforspecificwindowsforwindow 3) http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#changingnamedworkspacesmovingto_workspaces

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thx it helps a lot, do you know if there is a way (not so tricky) to have a container of floating windows who act like one lonely floating window?

tinh ( 2014-03-24 22:02:48 +0000 )edit

Yes, make the parent container floating. For instance, with 2 split windows, focus the parent ($mod+a by default) and make it float. You'll have to script that with `i3-msg`.

vivien ( 2014-03-24 22:45:02 +0000 )edit

great thank you

tinh ( 2014-03-24 22:49:55 +0000 )edit

This post is quite unreadable. Can you not make the links at least clickable please?

exhuma ( 2014-09-17 09:02:40 +0000 )edit

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answered 2014-11-10 21:44:22 +0000

flazzarini
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Although this is a really old question I wanted to provide the solution I applied to force the Google Chrome Hangout Plugin to be displayed on a specific workspace of mine. After investigating the window properties with xprop I found only two really useful properties which were

WM_NAME = "Hangouts"
WMWINDOWROLE = "pop-up"

so I transformed these properties to the following i3 for_window configuration

for_window [title="Hangouts"] move container to workspace 4
fow_window [role="pop-up"] floating enabled

This will enable floating on all Windows being of role "pop-up" and move the window having hangouts as title to workspace 4.

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