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Move workspace to other monitor?

bstpierre
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Say I have workspace 3 on my right-hand monitor, potentially with several windows in it. Is there a simple way to move it to the left-hand monitor?

My current sequence of actions to accomplish is clunky:

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Thor
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You can do this with an IPC action from the command line like this:

i3-msg move workspace to output left

Or with a binding in ~/.i3/config, e.g.:

bindsym $mod+m move workspace to output left

Yes: http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#movingcontainersworkspacestorandroutputs

That makes my windows move to a newly created workspace called "output right"

eighthcitizen ( 2013-06-09 04:32:50 +0000 )edit

@eightcitizen: did you remember to include `to`?

Thor ( 2013-11-01 17:44:13 +0000 )edit

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Asked: 2012-10-05 20:13:01 +0000

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Last updated: Nov 01 '13