assign a workspace to a given monitor doesn't work anymore.

[ethanfel]

Hi !
I've been using regolith for years now and i've always been using workspace assignement. I just updated to Regolith 2.

i did stage my config following this

and added the code i was using before with 1.6 (it follow the wiki
but it's not working anymore (lots of error after logout)

can you help me finding the correct way to do this with regolith 2 ? thanks

[ethanfel]

i've made some progress. (it actually work now with some errors)

Xressource files didn't work.

So i've started using configs partials. Followed the wiki to create my own 40_workspace-config and remove the original one with apt.

added my settings and after a refresh it work.

But it doesn't work after a reboot/logout (the errors are in the previous link). A refresh is needed to fix it.

[jschwuch]

Hi,

I'm a new user to regolith but am migrating from an existing i3 config and had a similar issue. I just want to share the solution that works for me and give some info about what I tried and didn't work.

TLDR

Remove the magic from the workspace names. Like: i3-wm.workspace.01.name: 1

First Try: Using my old config

First I tried to use my old i3 config. I stripped everything that I already configured via Xresources and was basically left with

workspace 1 output $leftScreen
workspace 2 output $leftScreen
workspace 3 output $leftScreen
workspace 4 output $rightScreen
[...]

assign [title=".*Google Chrome$"] 3
assign [class="Microsoft Teams - Preview"] 1
[...]

plus a few additional key bindings. I put this into ~/.config/regolith2/i3/config.d/100_user_config.

This kind of worked but duplicated the workspaces. I had all my old workspaces where I wanted them and additionally all the workspaces with a colored circle after the name. My applications were moved to the workspaces without the circles.

Second try

To move my applications to the correct workspaces (those with circles) I added the number keyword to the assign commands. This worked as expected.

But assigning the workspaces to the correct displays didn't work properly, I got the same error messages as @ethanfel.

workspace "$ws1" output $leftScreen
workspace "$ws2" output $leftScreen
workspace "$ws3" output $leftScreen
workspace "$ws4" output $rightScreen
[...]

assign [title=".*Google Chrome$"] number 3
assign [class="Microsoft Teams - Preview"] number 1
[...]

It looks like i3 can't properly process the HTML polluted workspace names so I got rid of them in

The final try

I set the workspace names of all the workspaces 1-10 to only numbers via the ~/.config/regolith2/Xresources file like this:

i3-wm.workspace.01.name: 1
i3-wm.workspace.02.name: 2
i3-wm.workspace.03.name: 3
i3-wm.workspace.04.name: 4
i3-wm.workspace.05.name: 5
i3-wm.workspace.06.name: 6
i3-wm.workspace.07.name: 7
i3-wm.workspace.08.name: 8
i3-wm.workspace.09.name: 9
i3-wm.workspace.10.name: 10

and changed my 100_user_config back to the state from the first try and everything works fine!

I hope this might help somebody who struggles with the same problem. Ideally, this would work out of the box and it should be documented how to achieve this.

[ethanfel]

ho nice, thanks for the detailed answer.

did you add the assign lines to the Xressources file to ?

[jschwuch]

No, both, the lines starting with workspace and the lines starting with assign need to go into your config partial. In my case that's ~/.config/regolith2/i3/config.d/100_user_config

[ethanfel]

it's working perfectly like before ! thank you very much.