dabai
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I generally use the 1pixel border to save screen space. I would like to show a normal bar only on windows containing a urxvt that shows a remote shell and on all local terminals the default 1pixel border.

While this works (1pixel border as default and normal as soon as I ssh on the precise64 host):

for_window [class="URxvt" title="^.*@precise64.*$"] border normal

Since I don't want to list all remote hosts I work on, I would just want to exclude my localhost (hparch) from the matcher, instead of including all others. Unfortunately this wont work:

for_window [class="URxvt" title="^(?!.*@hparch).*$"] border normal

I checked the regex with pcregrep, so it seems to work. Might there be a problem with the way i3 parses the regex?

Problem already appeared here but also no real solution.

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answered 2012-11-21 22:46:18 +0000

Michael
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My title bars contain "hostname: directory", e.g. "x200: ~", so here is what works for me:

for_window [class="URxvt" title="^[^:]+:(?<!x200:)"] border normal

You might just have to modify your regexp a bit. Have a look at http://i3wm.org/docs/debugging.html to enable the logfile. It will tell you whether a regexp matches or not. pcregrep (which you mentioned) is a faster alternative, though. By the way, I couldn’t get your regexp to work in pcregrep.

Also, why not use a shell alias like this one in the first place instead of doing hackish unreliable title matching? :-)