[i3] About accessing workspaces by name

2015-06-16 Thread Nicolas Bercher
Hi the list! I run i3 since a week now and I switch to it from wmii (nearly for the same reasons that the i3 developers expose on i3 web site). I really appreciate its stability, xrandr support and conf/i3 reloading/restarting on the fy! Anyway, can any one tell me: 1. why and/or "switch to w

Re: [i3] About accessing workspaces by name

2015-06-16 Thread Kareem Khazem
On 2015-06-16 1902, Nicolas Bercher wrote: > why and/or "switch to workspace by name" and "move window to > workspace by name" are not implemented? > (namely M-t / M-S-t under wmii.) Hi Nicholas, You can use i3-msg to do this from the command line. I use a combination of i3-msg and dmenu to

Re: [i3] About accessing workspaces by name

2015-06-16 Thread Nicolas Bercher
On 16/06/2015 19:08, Kareem Khazem wrote: Hi Nicholas, You can use i3-msg to do this from the command line. I use a combination of i3-msg and dmenu to do this. Hi Kareem, I was thinking vaguely to do things like that but didn't get to the idea of using dmenu! For sure your approach will be m

Re: [i3] About accessing workspaces by name

2015-06-16 Thread Thomas Sanchez
2015-06-16 20:20 GMT+02:00 Nicolas Bercher : > [...] > > I was thinking vaguely to do things like that but didn't get to the idea > of using dmenu! For sure your approach will be mine (but I think I'll > do it in some mix of Python and bash maybe that will be flawlessly > integrated together with

Re: [i3] About accessing workspaces by name

2015-06-16 Thread Steven K Knight
June 16 2015 2:21 PM, "Nicolas Bercher" wrote: > On 16/06/2015 19:08, Kareem Khazem wrote: > >> Hi Nicholas, >> >> You can use i3-msg to do this from the command line. I use a >> combination of i3-msg and dmenu to do this. > > Hi Kareem, > > I was thinking vaguely to do things like that but di