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i3 changed my life. As many workspaces as I want, any window arrangement I want, including full screen. No wasted space. Wrote my own script to add nvidia GPU information to the bar. Bound important programs like browsers and terminals to shortcuts. It's amazing, it just gets out of my way and I get frustrated whenever I have to use anything else.


I love i3 but it's really missing a way to group workspaces, I use https://github.com/infokiller/i3-workspace-groups but it's subpar, what I'd really really like is a native workspace matrix...


There was a discussion about implementing a similar feature natively, but it didn't go anywhere.

https://github.com/i3/i3/issues/4024


This sounds nice.


Not exactly the same purpose but here is a small tool I wrote to group workspaces across all monitors : https://github.com/J3rome/i3-multimonitor-workspace

TLDR: global workspace span across all monitors. Changing workspace change for all monitors (Similar to what happen in windows & macos). In my opinion, it allows for a better separation between workspaces/tasks when working with multiple monitors.

It's an MVP/alpha software. Need some optimisations but it does the job (been using it daily for over a year now).




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