VicDeo / i3-icon-to-go

Program that adds app icons to i3 workspace names

i3-icon-to-go

• Renames i3wm workspaces according to the workspace window names
• Allows usage of Font Awesome icons instead of app names

Setup

1. To support icons Font Awesome should be available on your system. In case it is not installed - use package manager to install it. You can use fc-list | grep Awesome or just i3-icon-to-go awesome to check the Font Awesome availability

2. configs directory contains sample configuration files in yaml format These files should be placed either under ~/.i3 or ~/.config/i3 directory. fa-icons.yaml sets one-to-one mapping from icon name to UTF-8 code as set by Font Awesome. app-icons.yaml sets one-to-many mapping from icon name to app name A default fa-icons.yaml can be produced by executing i3-icon-to-go parse > ~/.config/i3/fa-icons.yaml

3. Just place the executable file anywhere and add this line to your i3 config: exec_always --no-startup-id i3-icon-to-go

Command line parameters

  -c         path to the app-icons.yaml config file
  -u         display only unique icons. Default is True
  -l         trim app names to this length. Default is 12
  -d         app delimiter. Default is a pipe character "|"

Inspired by https://github.com/cboddy/i3-workspace-names-daemon