Michael Stapelberg <[email protected]> writes:
> Excerpts from Frank Haun's message of 2012-01-28 23:35:08 +0000:
>> You can completely script such tasks. I use 'xdotool' for such
>> jobs. Look your i3 config for the related keys to resize (shrink and
>> grow) windows.
> A better way than sending commands to X11 which sends them to i3 is to
> directly execute i3 commands, for example with i3-msg. In your
> example, you can use:
>
>> xdotool key Super_L+a # focus the parent container
> i3-msg focus parent
Ah, thx for the hint. That's much better. I've used i3-msg only to set
borders to none. Sorry. :-)
Wow, and with this I can define how much to shrink, great!
i3-msg resize shrink left 15 px or 15 ppt
[Waiting for a program]
>> #---------------------------------------------------#
>> wait_for () {
>> n=0
>> while true
>> do
>> if $1; then
>> break
>> else
>> # 20 seconds timeout
>> if [ $n -eq 20 ]; then
>> xmessage "Error executing: $1"
>> break
>> else
>> n=`expr $n + 1`
>> sleep 1
>> fi
>> fi
>> done
>> }
>>
>> wait_for "xdotool search --name emacs"
>> #---------------------------------------------------#
> Hm, basically you could use the for_window configuration directive here:
>
> for_window [class="emacs"] exec ~/.bin/my_script_for_emacs.sh
>
> (I didn’t test whether emacs actually sets its class to 'emacs'.)
The class name of emacs is Emacs, I think.
> If you only want to have this match the first time such a window
> appears you might want to some configuration file tricks, like keeping
> the for_window directives in a separate file and your other
> configuration in another file, then cat them together in your xsession
> and after all your windows have appeared, only write your base
> configuration to the config file and reload i3.
Ops, that sounds much complicated. But I'll investigate more time using
this or other methods.
My goal was to have only _one_ clean autostart file for i3 with a
_special_ layout. That was something I missed when I start using i3.
Just an example, this works for me with my autostart.
|emacs--------|ding(no border---|
| | |
| | |
| |pdf--------------|
| |browser----------|
| |fileman----------|
| | |
|xterm--------| |
| | |
| | |
|-------------|-----------------|
Thanks very much,
Frank
