Re: [i3] 4.8.1 -> 4.10.2 append_layout creates rather than appends

[Sargrad, Dave]

I figured it out.. it's the workspace type that does this.. easy for me to fix 
my layout specs. When I delete this the append works as I'd expect.

    "type": "workspace"




From: Sargrad, Dave
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 7:06 AM
To: 'i3-discuss@i3.zekjur.net'
Subject: 4.8.1 -> 4.10.2 append_layout creates rather than appends

I've migrated to 4.10.2. I had been using 4.8.1.

I have saved layouts that I would like to append to my workspace.

Rather than the layout getting appended, I am seeing an "unnamed" workspace 
created with the layout content.

This is the type of command that I use to append:

i3-msg "workspace my_workspace; append_layout /home/user/.i3/my_layout.json"

Why is append_layout creating a new workspace rather than appending to an 
existing named workspace?


This is the layout json file that I am using:

{
    "border": "normal",
    "floating": "auto_off",
    "fullscreen_mode": 1,
    "layout": "splith",
    "nodes": [
        {
            "border": "normal",
            "current_border_width": 2,
            "floating": "auto_off",
            "geometry": {
                "height": 485,
                "width": 818,
                "x": 0,
                "y": 0
            },
            "layout": "splith",
            "name": "Terminal - root@sensis-8930: /var/www/cwpmash",
            "percent": 0.3416666666666666,
            "swallows": [
                {
                    "class": "^XTerm$"
                }
            ],
            "type": "con"
        },
        {
            "border": "normal",
            "current_border_width": 2,
            "floating": "auto_off",
            "geometry": {
                "height": 485,
                "width": 818,
                "x": 0,
                "y": 0
            },
            "layout": "splith",
            "name": "Terminal - ubuntu@sensis-8930: ~",
            "percent": 0.3333333333333333,
            "swallows": [
                {
                    "class": "^XTerm$"
                }
            ],
            "type": "con"
        },
        {
            "border": "normal",
            "current_border_width": 2,
            "floating": "auto_off",
            "geometry": {
                "height": 1026,
                "width": 1440,
                "x": 0,
                "y": 0
            },
            "layout": "splith",
            "name": "Sign In - mashup - Mozilla Firefox",
            "percent": 0.325,
            "swallows": [
                {
                    "class": "^Firefox$"
                }
            ],
            "type": "con"
        }
    ],
    "percent": null,
    "type": "workspace"
}

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