i3-glue

Glue windows opened in i3wm together creating a tabbed container based on wm classes.

AI-generated and unreviewed.

Motivation

I am grizzled and grumpy. I don't want to move windows areound all the time, but I have too many windows to fit on my screen in fixed locations. I can just about handle putting similar windows together and toggling them.

Alternatives

Use desktops. Manually arrange your windows into containers.

Usage

Find a the class of thel windows you want to with xprop WM_CLASS (the second string) or i3-msg -t get_tree.

Run i3-glue as a daemon.

i3-glue --glue obsidian,neovim
i3-glue --glue obsidian,neovim --glue qutebrowser,signal
i3-glue --glue obsidian,neovim --layout tabbed

Each --glue is a comma-separated list of X11 WM classes. Every open window whose

Flags

• --glue A,B[,C...] — a group of WM classes to glue (repeatable, required)
• --layout — stacking (default), tabbed, splith, splitv

Install (editable, via pipx)

pipx install --editable i3-glue