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Allow assign to output
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Ingo Bürk
2017-09-22 16:24:26 +02:00
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@ -760,6 +760,10 @@ title change. As i3 will get the title as soon as the application maps the
window (mapping means actually displaying it on the screen), you’d need to have
to match on 'Firefox' in this case.
You can also assign a window to show up on a specific output. You can use RandR
names such as +VGA1+ or names relative to the output with the currently focused
workspace such as +left+ and +down+.
Assignments are processed by i3 in the order in which they appear in the config
file. The first one which matches the window wins and later assignments are not
considered.
@ -767,6 +771,7 @@ considered.
*Syntax*:
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assign <criteria> [→] [workspace] [number] <workspace>
assign <criteria> [→] output left|right|up|down|primary|<output>
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*Examples*:
@ -791,9 +796,20 @@ assign [class="^URxvt$"] → number "2: work"
# Start urxvt -name irssi
assign [class="^URxvt$" instance="^irssi$"] → 3
# Assign urxvt to the output right of the current one
assign [class="^URxvt$"] → output right
# Assign urxvt to the primary output
assign [class="^URxvt$"] → output primary
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Note that the arrow is not required, it just looks good :-). If you decide to
Note that you might not have a primary output configured yet. To do so, run:
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xrandr --output <output> --primary
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Also, the arrow is not required, it just looks good :-). If you decide to
use it, it has to be a UTF-8 encoded arrow, not `->` or something like that.
To get the class and instance, you can use +xprop+. After clicking on the
@ -2238,7 +2254,6 @@ bindsym $mod+x move container to output VGA1
bindsym $mod+x move container to output primary
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Note that you might not have a primary output configured yet. To do so, run:
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xrandr --output <output> --primary