Blinking of workspaces for single instance programs and new tabs in already running applications like pcmanfm or firefox.. [closed]
Hi
I have been using i3 for a while and I like its simplicity. I'm not a programmer nevertheless I like it. Just a suggestion: I hope that the developers would keep non-developers or programmers in mind when programming this wm.
My question: There seems to a problem with blinking of the workspaces in the bar for single instance apps like smplayer. Whenever I hit a custom defined key for the player, the workspace containing it would not blink. Since this a single instance app another instance would not start and the instance already running is not indicated by the workspace containing it. But when I hit the key in the workspace which contains it then smplayer gets focused. This is not the case with programs like firefox which allow multiple instances.
Another point I would like to make is that when I select open folder (for a torrent) in transmission-gtk, It opens the fm (in my case pcmanfm) and workspace blinks but when the fm is already opened then there is no indication but the folder opens in a new tab. This also happens when opening an url in a new tab in already running firefox contained in a different workspace from an email client (like geary).
It would be great if workspaces could blink in cases such as these. (My computer is running ArchLinux, i3 4.7, Firefox 28, Smplayer 0.8.6) Thanks in advance and Keep up the good work.
I’m having some trouble understanding what exactly you are suggesting. I recommend to create one ticket per suggestion at http://bugs.i3wm.org/. The best way to explain what you’re doing is to create a short video.