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Reputation:

i3wm floating windows (new issue)

I am not even sure this is possible, but I am curious because it would be useful.

I have the default i3 binding mod+enter which opens my terminal. What I would like to do is create a binding that will open a terminal that is floating.

In other words, I need to execute terminator 2 different ways, standard and floating. I have been through the docs and have looked at many different configs, but I can't find anyone doing this (and I can't quite figure it out myself).

Any suggestions?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3619

Answers (1)

Adaephon
Adaephon

Reputation: 18399

Add something like this to your ~/.i3/config (or ~/.config/i3/config):

bindsym Mod+Shift+Enter exec terminator --role=floating
for_window [window_role="^floating$"] floating enable

The first line binds the key combination Mod+Shift+Enter to start termite with the WM_WINDOW_ROLE property set to "floating". By default WM_WINDOW_ROLE is not set by terminator, so this can be used as criterion to differentiate between normal and floating windows. The second line will tell i3 to enable floating mode on any window that has WM_WINDOW_ROLE set to (exactly) "floating".

This works also the same for some (all?) other vte3 based terminals, like gnome-terminal or termite. Other tools might provide similar command line options to change the role.

Sometimes the WM_CLASS can also be changed. In that case class would have to be used instead of window_role in the i3 configuration.

Upvotes: 2

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