I was also thinking the same thing a few days ago! It would be a useful feature.
S On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 12:01 PM, Eric Duncan <eduncan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello! > > I've been using i3wm for a little over a year. Recently I've been using > the Tabs feature, grouping several terminal windows in different tabs > (monitoring a dozen or so logs). I have my .bash environment set the > Window Title properly for terminals, and that works with single tabs - > displaying the gnome-terminal's title in the Tab's title just like it > should. > > "Single Tabs" meaning with only 1 process running within that tab, i3wm > shows the Window Title of that one process. E.g. my gnome-terminal's > window title. > > This message is about tabs that have multiple processes running within the > tab's i3wm container. E.g. two or more terminal windows. i3wm currently > displays in the window title of the tab: > > i3: H[gnome-terminal gnome-terminal] > > It is obviously showing the process name, and that I am split via Height. > Cool, but I am missing the Window Title I have set in the terminals. > Again, the Tab's Window Title normally displays the Window Title of the > executing process. It's when grouping multiple processes within a single > tab. > > I think the "H" and "V" is fine. I get things like this: > > i3: H[V[gnome-terminal gnome-terminal] V[gnome-terminal > gnome-terminal]] > > That obviously says I have a 2x2 arrangement in that tab. It would really > nice if it showed the Window Title of those processes though. For example, > if the terminal has the current path set for Window Title, it would look > like: > > i3: H[V["~/code/sp-validator" "~/code/sp-juke"] V["~/go/src/ > github.com/eduncan911/go-mspec" "~/"]] > > Now, you'll notice I put in quotations. An additional tweak may be to put > in some type of delimier for when titles have spaces - so we know the > different in a title like this: > > i3: H[Evolution Inbox ~/code/sp-validator:grep] > > ^- That's two different apps running in horizonal split view. Without > quotes around "Evolution Inbox", it would hard to determine where the first > one ends and second begins. > > Just a suggestion to an awesome window manager! > > Thanks! > Eric > > > > > > > > -- Stefano Ghirlanda - www.intercult.su.se/~stefano - drghirlanda.com Full Professor of Psychology, Biology, and Anthropology, Brooklyn College Founder and Fellow, Stockholm University Centre for the Study of Cultural Evolution
