i3-workspace-list

smol program to simply list which workspace are currently being used by i3, written in rust just because i can.

Motivation

I wanted to do a eww widget and I needed the info about the current workspace being used and found no way to get the info through cli.

i wrote this in a single night pls no hit

Usage

i3-workspace-list 0.1

USAGE:
    i3-workspace-list [OPTIONS]

FLAGS:
    -h, --help       Prints help information
    -V, --version    Prints version information

OPTIONS:
        --name <name>          
        --num <num>            
        --screen <screen>      
        --visible <visible>

Get all workspaces

> i3-workspace-list
Workspace { id: 94120323101968, num: 1, name: "1", visible: true, focused: false, urgent: false, rect: Rect { x: 0, y: 360, width: 1920, height: 1080 }, output: "DP-0" }
Workspace { id: 94120323098848, num: 3, name: "3", visible: true, focused: false, urgent: false, rect: Rect { x: 4480, y: 360, width: 1920, height: 1080 }, output: "HDMI-0" }
Workspace { id: 94120323139808, num: 6, name: "6", visible: false, focused: false, urgent: false, rect: Rect { x: 4480, y: 360, width: 1920, height: 1080 }, output: "HDMI-0" }
Workspace { id: 94120323095728, num: 2, name: "2", visible: true, focused: true, urgent: false, rect: Rect { x: 1920, y: 24, width: 2560, height: 1416 }, output: "DP-2" }

Is workspace num 2 used ?

> i3-workspace-list --num 2 | wc -l
1

Example with eww

<script-var name="workspace_1_open" interval="1s">i3-workspace-list --num 1 | wc -l</script-var>
<script-var name="workspace_2_open" interval="1s">i3-workspace-list --num 2 | wc -l</script-var>
<script-var name="workspace_3_open" interval="1s">i3-workspace-list --num 3 | wc -l</script-var>
...

<script-var name="workspace_1_visible" interval="1s">i3-workspace-list --num 1 --visible true | wc -l</script-var>
<script-var name="workspace_2_visible" interval="1s">i3-workspace-list --num 2 --visible true | wc -l</script-var>
<script-var name="workspace_3_visible" interval="1s">i3-workspace-list --num 3 --visible true | wc -l</script-var>
...

<label class="w-{{workspace_1_visible}}" text="{{ if workspace_1_open == 1 then '' else '' }}"/>
...

Full example at eww.xml

Alaanor / i3-workspace-list