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if i3 just had persistent workspaces I would love to give it a good try, but they seem astonishingly resistant to the feature. xmonad has its own issues but at
by zem 4y ago
if i3 just had persistent workspaces I would love to give it a good try, but they seem astonishingly resistant to the feature. xmonad has its own issues but at least it has all the features I need.
- jonas-w 4y agoWhat do you mean with persistent workspaces?
- zem 4y agohm, probably not the right term for it, but the workspace display in the pager does not show empty workspaces. so if I have windows open in workspaces 1, 3 and 7 e.g. they would be indistinguishable from windows open in workspaces 1, 2 and 3. xmonad does this right, it has all available workspaces displayed in the pager at all times.
- Airblader 4y agoThere's an open PR that will make this possible.
- zem 4y agothat's awesome! do you reckon the pr is going to get accepted? I definitely remember reading discussions of this issue in the past and seeing a firm "we don't want this feature in i3" response.
- Airblader 4y agoThe PR is coming from one of the core maintainers, so yes, it will be accepted. It doesn't just implement this specific feature, though. It provides a more general approach for i3bar that enables this and many other use cases. This struck us as a good and flexible solution we can get behind.
- Zircom 4y agoAssign workspace to specific screen->assign specific window/program to workspace and area within the workspace ->set i3 to open whatever programs/windows you want on start up and they're automatically arranged. That's more or less my set up and it's pretty persistent as far as I can tell?