jorgenbele / i3next

A simple utility for switching to another i3 workspace, written in C using i3ipc-glib.

i3next

A simple utility for switching to another i3 workspace, written in c using i3ipc-glib.

Features

• Switch to the previous/next non-empty and empty workspace.
• Switch to an empty workspace.

Limitations

• Only supports i3, not sway or other i3-ipc compatible window managers. This is caused by its relience on i3ipc-glib, which seems to only support i3.
• Workspaces must have numerical workspace-names.

Installation

git clone https://github.com/jorgenbele/i3next
cd i3next
make
make install # installs to $HOME/bin

Usage

Usage: ./i3n [-efhnp] 
  -e	Find the nearest empty workspace and select it
  -f	Force change to next workspace (even if none is active)
  -h	Shows this message and quits
  -n	Try to change to the next workspace
  -p	Try to change to the previous workspace