i3-improvements

Personal i3wm control wrapper library. Improvements to workspace switching and renaming

workspace.py

Arrange, rename, create, and navigate renamed workspaces

Stock i3 has a few annoying bugs with space renaming:

• Renamed spaces are moved to the end of the list
• Renamed workspaces cannot be accessed with $mod+num
• There is no way (that I can find) to control the way the workspaces are arranged

A common workaround is to rename them with numbers, i.e. 1-www, 2-vim, etc. This allows for accessing with $mod+num but does not solve the other two issues. This script handles the above by using iterated rename commands to maintain the correct order of workspaces with renaming.

This script is meant to replace using $mod+num to create workspaces. Map a key to --new to create a new workspace with a randomized name from vegetables.txt.

Usage

workspace.py --rename - Open an i3-input prompt to rename the workspace
workspace.py --move {left,right} - Move workspace
workspace.py --move_container {left,right} - Move container
workspace.py --new - Create a new container with a randomized name
workspace.py --goto {index} - Go to nth workspace

Todo

• Test workspace.py with first boot
• Move subprocess.call commands to dictionary, build api for two-variable commands