This tool emulates the workspace behavior of xmonad and herbstluftwm. When switching to a workspace with this tool, it tries to pull the target workspace to the current screen. If the target workspace is visible on a different screen, i3-wk exchanges the workspace of the current screen with the workspace of the other screen.
Call i3-wk <workspace name> and it switches to that workspace. If you want to replace the default workspace switch keys with i3-wk you can use these bindings:
bindsym --release $mod+1 exec --no-startup-id i3-wk 1
bindsym --release $mod+2 exec --no-startup-id i3-wk 2
bindsym --release $mod+3 exec --no-startup-id i3-wk 3
bindsym --release $mod+4 exec --no-startup-id i3-wk 4
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Using --release is necessary because i3 acts weird if i3-wk switches workspaces while the keys are still pressed.
- i3-msg
i3-wk is written in Rust and requires Cargo to download the dependencies.
cargo build --release
The final binary is at target/release/i3-wk and can be copied or symlinked somewhere else if needed.