I have four monitors, and regardless of the active workspace, i3-input prompt always opens up on top left monitor. Why is it so, since it hasn't even been defined as primary monitor? Is it possible to re-position it?
TL;DR
You cannot without changing the source code.
The position of the i3-input window is hardcoded to geometry 500x(fontheight+8)+50+50. That means upper left corner of the virtual screen spanning all displays. There are no configuration or command line options that allow changing that.
As far as I can tell, it is not mapped in the i3 window tree (i3-msg -t get_tree). Therefore it cannot be moved to a specific workspace or output with i3 commands. It even will remain visible if the workspace on the display, on which it is displayed, is changed.
While the window could theoretically be moved with xdotool, it does not have a title or window class, which could be used to reference the window.
At the moment, if you really want to change the position you can do so only in the source code in i3-input/main.c, search for "dimensions":
50, 50, 500, font.height + 8, /* dimensions */
Even better would be if you could give the window a name, so that it can be found with xdotool or similar programs. Maybe you could even submit a patch for that.
As of version 4.11 the placement of the i3-input window is improved. While still not configurable the i3-input window now appears inside the currently focused window.
Based on your answer I made a [patch](http://cr.i3wm.org/patch/570) using my very limited C know-how. It seems to be working: #!/bin/sh xdotool search --sync test windowmove 1000 1000 & i3-input -n test , prompt opens up on different location. Thank you very much for your fine answer!
Zenity++. I put the renaming logic into a script, enhanced to maintain the workspace number:
#! /bin/bash
#
# Script to prompt to rename the current workspace.
#
# Cadged from
# https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3936/how-can-i-change-the-position-of-i3-input-prompt/
#
WSNUMBER=$(ruby -rjson -e 'puts(JSON.parse(`i3-msg -t get_workspaces`).find { |ws| ws["focused"] }["num"])')
NEWNAME="`zenity --entry --text 'Rename workspace to: '`"
if [[ ! "${NEWNAME}" =~ ^[0-9]+: ]] ; then
NEWNAME="${WSNUMBER}:${NEWNAME}"
fi
i3-msg "rename workspace to \"${NEWNAME}\""
My workaround is using zenity + i3-msg
As an exmaple for renaming workspace, instead of:
bindsym $mod+Shift+A exec i3-input -F 'rename workspace to "%s"' -P 'New name: '
I use:
bindsym $mod+Shift+A exec i3-msg rename workspace to `zenity --entry --text "Rename workspace to:"`
To answer the question directly, it is possible to reposition i3-input using xdotool with a short delay (in this case 0.1s):
#!/bin/bash
i3-input "$@" &
pid=$!
sleep 0.1
xdotool getwindowfocus windowmove 500 500
# xdotool getwindowfocus windowmove $(($RANDOM%1420)) $(($RANDOM%1060))
wait $pid
Asked: 2014-06-10 04:12:17 +0000
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Last updated: Oct 08
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