Hi, try to create for_window rules that force the mentioned windows to tiled mode (floating disable), like:
for_window[title="GNU Image*"] floating disable Greetings On 12/11/2013 02:24 PM, oliver wrote: > Hello, > > yesterday I tried to use Inkscape under i3. > When opening "object properties", the window > filled the whole screen, and my worksheet, > the main-window of the app was not visible anymore. > > Similar problems did I have with other apps that use multiple windows. > An example would be Gimp in multi-window-mode, xchat (after channel search), > and there will be many more. > > A program that - as counter-example - behaves well under i3 is > R. When doing a plot, a window opens and shows the plot, > and the window is opened in the same mode, in which I > set i3 (horizontal or vertical). > > But the other apps, mentioned above, just open the windows somewhere, and > seemingly not predictable, and it makes these programs being > unconformtable or even unusable. > > Possibly these apps open any window in "floating mode" (?). > > A while ago, when I used wmii (before switching to i3), > I asked the Gimp-developers about this problem, and > how to solve it. > The answer was, that nearly nobody would use things like wmii, > so they will not support this, it's my problem, not theirs. > > The single-window-mode then helped using Gimp on i3 also, > but with inkscape for example, the problem stays there. > > Any ideas, on how to use such applications in i3? > Can i3 be set up in a way to handle these problems, > or would it need the applications to be changed? > > > Ciao, > Oliver >
