> and places the window ideally 90% of the time, and I fix up the 10% of the time you can replicate whatever setup you had using i3-save-tree which outputs a j

> and places the window ideally 90% of the time, and I fix up the 10% of the time you can replicate whatever setup you had using i3-save-tree which outputs a json file e.g i3-save-tree > .config/i3/workspace1.json and then load that upon startup (from your i3/config): exec --no-startup-id i3-msg 'workspace $ws1; append_layout ~/.config/i3/workspace1.json' or see full config mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22303128 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22303128