i3gopher

i3gopher is a helper rodent for i3 and Sway (the i3-compatible Wayland compositor). It may take on various chores.

Running

You probably want to run it from your .i3/config. Like:

exec --no-startup-id i3gopher

Using

Focus the last focused container

The rodent subscribes to i3 events and tracks the history of focused containers on each workspace. It tries to be clever and ignores containers that disappear (close, or move to another workspace).

Running i3gopher --focus-last tell an already running i3gopher to focused the last focused container on the currently focused workspace.

bindsym Mod1+Tab exec --no-startup-id i3gopher --focus-last

Execute command on window event

If you are, like me, fixing to get the title of the currently focused window into the statusbar (maybe using xtitle), you might have a need for triggering i3status to refresh itself at suitable times. Since this rodent is already subscribing to window events, it has the feature to execute a command upon receiving such. You can thus start i3gopher like so:

exec --no-startup-id i3gopher --exec "killall -USR1 i3status"

Upgrading

Since version 1.0, POSIX/GNU style flags are used:

-     -exec string    cmd to exec
-     -focus-last     focus last
+     --exec string   cmd to exec
+ -l, --focus-last    focus last

TODO

• No thought about floating containers.

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