Now you move one of these terminals down (+$mod+k+ by default). The workspace
node’s orientation will be changed to +vertical+. The terminal window you moved
down is directly attached to the workspace and appears on the bottom of the
-screen. A new (horizontal) container was created to accomodate the other two
+screen. A new (horizontal) container was created to accommodate the other two
terminal windows. You will notice this when switching to tabbed mode (for
example). You would end up having one tab called "another container" and the
other one being the terminal window you moved down.
(anything higher than wide) get vertical orientation.
With the +default_orientation+ configuration directive, you can override that
-behaviour.
+behavior.
*Syntax*:
----------------------------------------------
bindsym $m+Shift+r restart
------------------------
-Variables are directly replaced in the file when parsing. There is no fancy
-handling and there are absolutely no plans to change this. If you need a more
-dynamic configuration you should create a little script which generates a
-configuration file and run it before starting i3 (for example in your
-+~/.xsession+ file).
+Variables are directly replaced in the file when parsing. Variables expansion
+is not recursive so it is not possible to define a variable with a value
+containing another variable. There is no fancy handling and there are
+absolutely no plans to change this. If you need a more dynamic configuration
+you should create a little script which generates a configuration file and run
+it before starting i3 (for example in your +~/.xsession+ file).
=== Automatically putting clients on specific workspaces
When being in a tabbed or stacked container, the first container will be
focused when you use +focus down+ on the last container -- the focus wraps. If
however there is another stacked/tabbed container in that direction, focus will
-be set on that container. This is the default behaviour so you can navigate to
+be set on that container. This is the default behavior so you can navigate to
all your windows without having to use +focus parent+.
If you want the focus to *always* wrap and you are aware of using +focus
If an application on another workspace sets an urgency hint, switching to this
workspace may lead to immediate focus of the application, which also means the
-window decoration color would be immediately resetted to +client.focused+. This
+window decoration color would be immediately reseted to +client.focused+. This
may make it unnecessarily hard to tell which window originally raised the
event.
--------------------------
*Example*:
---------------------
+------------------------
bar {
workspace_buttons no
}
---------------------
+------------------------
+
+=== Binding Mode indicator
+
+Specifies whether the current binding mode indicator should be shown or not.
+This is useful if you want to hide the workspace buttons but still be able
+to see the current binding mode indicator.
+For an example of a +mode+ definition, see <<resizingconfig>>.
+
+The default is to show the mode indicator.
+
+*Syntax*:
+-------------------------------
+binding_mode_indicator <yes|no>
+-------------------------------
+
+*Example*:
+-----------------------------
+bar {
+ binding_mode_indicator no
+}
+-----------------------------
=== Colors
will be the case for most workspaces.
urgent_workspace::
Border, background and text color for a workspace button when the workspace
- window with the urgency hint set.
+ contains a window with the urgency hint set. Also applies to +mode+ indicators.
*Syntax*:
----------------------------------------
[[command_criteria]]
Furthermore, you can change the scope of a command - that is, which containers
-should be affected by that command, by using various criteria. These are
-prefixed in square brackets to every command. If you want to kill all windows
-which have the class Firefox, use:
+should be affected by that command, by using various criteria. The criteria
+are specified before any command in a pair of square brackets and are separated
+by space.
*Example*:
------------------------------------
+# if you want to kill all windows which have the class Firefox, use:
bindsym $mod+x [class="Firefox"] kill
# same thing, but case-insensitive
bindsym $mod+x [class="(?i)firefox"] kill
+
+# kill only the About dialog from Firefox
+bindsym $mod+x [class="Firefox" window_role="About"] kill
------------------------------------
The criteria which are currently implemented are:
You can rename workspaces. This might be useful to start with the default
numbered workspaces, do your work, and rename the workspaces afterwards to
reflect what’s actually on them. You can also omit the old name to rename
-the currently focused workspace. This is handy if you wan't to use the
+the currently focused workspace. This is handy if you want to use the
rename command with +i3-input+.
*Syntax*:
i3-msg 'rename workspace 1 to "1: www"'
i3-msg 'rename workspace "1: www" to "10: www"'
i3-msg 'rename workspace to "2: mail"
-bindsym $mod+r exec i3-input -F 'rename workspace to %s' -P 'New name: '
+bindsym $mod+r exec i3-input -F 'rename workspace to "%s"' -P 'New name: '
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
=== Moving workspaces to a different screen
This feature is like the jump feature: It allows you to directly jump to a
specific window (this means switching to the appropriate workspace and setting
focus to the windows). However, you can directly mark a specific window with
-an arbitrary label and use it afterwards. You do not need to ensure that your
-windows have unique classes or titles, and you do not need to change your
-configuration file.
+an arbitrary label and use it afterwards. You can unmark the label in the same
+way, using the unmark command. If you don't specify a label, unmark removes all
+marks. You do not need to ensure that your windows have unique classes or
+titles, and you do not need to change your configuration file.
As the command needs to include the label with which you want to mark the
window, you cannot simply bind it to a key. +i3-input+ is a tool created
------------------------------
mark identifier
[con_mark="identifier"] focus
+unmark identifier
------------------------------
*Example (in a terminal)*:
------------------------------
$ i3-msg mark irssi
$ i3-msg '[con_mark="irssi"] focus'
+$ i3-msg unmark irssi
------------------------------
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+[[shmlog]]
+
=== Enabling shared memory logging
As described in http://i3wm.org/docs/debugging.html, i3 can log to a shared
i3-msg shmlog $((50*1024*1024))
---------------
+=== Enabling debug logging
+
+The +debuglog+ command allows you to enable or disable debug logging at
+runtime. Debug logging is much more verbose than non-debug logging. This
+command does not activate shared memory logging (shmlog), and as such is most
+likely useful in combination with the above-described <<shmlog>> command.
+
+*Syntax*:
+------------------------
+debuglog <on|off|toggle>
+------------------------
+
+*Examples*:
+------------------------
+# Enable/disable logging
+bindsym $mod+x debuglog toggle
+------------------------
+
=== Reloading/Restarting/Exiting
You can make i3 reload its configuration file with +reload+. You can also
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