feh on all workspaces
When on my Raspberry Pi (Raspbian) with i3dm I use feh as my image viewer in Fullscreen mode (feh -F), it appears fullscreen on ALL my workspaces, thus blocking me from doing other stuff. It appears to be, on the other hand, only actually active in the workspace it was activated in (or assigned to), since exiting feh only works when switched to the corresponding workspace. Using feh in any other mode or on any other dm (Ubuntu XFCE and i3dm, OpenSUSE13.1 KDE and i3dm) works as expected. Since I use feh on every computer around and never experienced anything funny before, I suspect it to be something in the Raspberry Pi / i3 configuration. Anyone?
Did you try to toggle fullscreen with i3's toggle fullscreen ability, Mod+F by default
Hi joelmo, Yes I tried that but that doesn't do anything. I got some output however, when trying this from a terminal: feh WARNING: Window Manager does not support MWM hints. To get a borderless window I have to bypass your wm. There you are. So the wm is bypassed. Can this be solved?
In the meantime I have been puzzling a bit and found a workaround that may point to a solution: Starting fullscreen from feh (feh -F) will bypass the wm, but starting feh normally and using fullscreen from i3 ($mod+f) works. It has trouble going DIRECTLY to fullscreen though, new pics start tiled.
mmm in my case (i3 4.7.2) feh -F only appears in current workspace. I can move to other workspaces without problems. What is your version?