Problem

Switching between workstations will also bring up the Rofi menu unintentionally if you have the $mod key also binded to bring up the Rofi menu. I tried various utilities to be able to create a custom keybinding that nothing worked.

Solution

I ended up writing my own simple script in Python with the help of the "pynput" module to create my own custom keybind.

System Requirements

• GIT
• Python
• Rofi
• i3

Installation

git clone https://github.com/alexeightsix/fix-i3-mod-rofi-bind.git

sudo pip install -r fix-i3-mod-rofi-bind.git/requirements.txt

Configuration

Currently all the configuration values are hard-coded in the script. To change the command that runs and the user it runs as you will need to open up run.py and edit the variables accordingly.

Run

python3 fix-i3-mod-rofi-bind.git/run.py

i3config

Add the following line to have the script startup once i3 starts exec --no-startup-id python3 fix-i3-rofi-bind/run.py