Single window on a workspace take up half the screen?
Is it possible to have a single window open only take up the right or left side of the the workspace without floating that window and manually position/resizing?
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I was able to add a keybinding to create an empty container:
bindsym $mod+o open
Then I could open a terminal alongside it to only take up half the screen.
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Asked: 2015-04-13 01:03:02 +0000
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Last updated: Apr 13
You could load a saved window layout wherein half the screen is reserved for one window and the remainder divided however you like with i3-save-tree and i3-msg append_layout. Could you be more clear on what you are trying to achieve.
I'm trying to have 1 window take up one side, and nothing take up the other side. So if I open a single terminal in an empty workspace it takes up half of the workspace instead of taking up the entire workspace.
You can use the undocumented IPC command `open` which opens a container without a window. This is, of course, officially not supported, though.
Thanks, I was thinking that creating an empty container could be a solution, just unsure how to do it.