Allow setting gap size for a specific workspace

[Airblader]

gaps inner|outer workspace number <name> set|plus|minus <px>

It'd be wonderful to also allow for_workspace [number = <number>] gaps …, but that probably needs to be its own issue.

[Airblader]

Probably a better idea would be

workspace $ws gaps …

similar to http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#workspace_screen

[Airblader]

feature-workspace-gaps contains a first draft for workspace $ws gaps inner|outer <px>.

Problem: it currently only works correctly if the global gaps command was used before this directive.

[Airblader]

The branch should now hopefully work as intended. Was a bit more effort than I anticipated, but it's worth it. I'll use it for a while before merging it, though.

[Airblader]

Merged now.

[japhir]

Sorry to open up this old issue, but is it possible to set both inner and outer gaps on a specific workspace?

i.e.

workspace 1 gaps inner 0
workspace 1 gaps outer 0

currently, it seems like it only takes the last option.

[Airblader]

This is supposed to work, yes, so if it doesn't that'd be a bug. Feel free to open one (and send a PR :-) )

[japhir]

I must have done something wrong, it works now!

I guess I already had the workspace open before reloading my config or something like that.

Thanks for the superfast reply!

[thexavier666]

Sorry for replying on such an old post.
But to enable per workspace gap, I had to logout and login, instead of i3-msg restart. I was stuck with this for an hour.

Using i3 version 4.18.2-229-g234d6855

[Airblader]

@thexavier666 Logging out and in shouldn't be necessary, but you need to recreate the workspace, ie make sure it gets destroyed and then switch to it again. Logging out and in obviously achieves that as well.

[OopsYao]

Sorry to reopen this again, is there any way to set gaps for a specific workspace from command? The current gap command only allows for setting of current and all workspaces, while the configuration file allows a specific workspace. Or is this on purpose?

[Airblader]

There's no command to set the gaps for a specific workspace at runtime, but you can always do

workspace --no-auto-back-and-forth foo, gaps inner current plus 5, workspace back_and_forth

[OopsYao]

Thanks for the reply! It's a great workaround and satisfies my needs! But in my opinion it would be better to implement a command like that, it is more intuitive.