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Single window on a workspace take up half the screen?

asked Apr 13 '15

lunarl0n gravatar image

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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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.

Michael Rose gravatar imageMichael Rose (Apr 13 '15)edit

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.

lunarl0n gravatar imagelunarl0n (Apr 13 '15)edit

You can use the undocumented IPC command `open` which opens a container without a window. This is, of course, officially not supported, though.

airblader gravatar imageairblader (Apr 13 '15)edit

Thanks, I was thinking that creating an empty container could be a solution, just unsure how to do it.

lunarl0n gravatar imagelunarl0n (Apr 13 '15)edit

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answered Apr 13 '15

lunarl0n gravatar image

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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