This set of shell scripts, and it's associated i3wm config segment are my personal method of managing how my i3wm workspaces are arranged across multiple monitors. Each workspace is named according to a naming scheme that is easy to parse in a shell script. The naming scheme is as follows:
- Each monitor is given a number in the range
(1-9). - Each workspace for any given monitor is also given a number, also in the range
(1-9). - Each workspace, across all monitors is given the name
"$workspace:$monitor-$workspace", - The first
$workspacein the name exists to maintain i3wm workspace sorting order.
Currently, this set of scripts requires jquery due to the way that i3wm return information
about workspaces. If you don't want to use jquery then it should be fairly easy to rewrite
your own version of i3mm.getWspaceName to avoid using it. I haven't because I already had it
installed, and I just wanted it to work.
Simple enough:
- Throw all of the
i3mm.*shell scripts somewhere on your path - I recommend and personally use~/.local/bin - Add the contents of
configto your i3wm config file. Thebar{}section is not required, and exists purely as an example of how to strip the leading$workspacefrom the displayed workspace name. - You may need to adjust the keybindings to avoid conflicts, depending on your current setup.
Currently, due to the nature of i3wm's config system the sample config only accounts for 3 monitors. In the future, I hope to also create a shell script that will generate the config section that can then be inserted into the i3wm config at launch. Additionally, the system currently does not account for changes to monitors. Ideally, this would not be the case.