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#1 2022-09-04 15:59:52

RounakDutta
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Cannot focus on new urgent windows in i3wm

So long story short. I use i3, I have firefox in workspace 2 and thunderbird (mail client) at workspace 1. Whenever I click a link on thunderbird it should automatically redirect me to workspace 2 where my firefox is but it doesn't. I have to manually go to workspace 2 ( by pressing $mod + 2 ) to see the content. I tried setting ""for_window [urgent="latest"] focus"" in my i3config but it still didn't work.

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#2 2022-09-05 21:53:09

xerxes_
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Re: Cannot focus on new urgent windows in i3wm

Where have you seen or heard that this is possible?
I also use i3wm and when I click in workspace 1 in terminal to open link in web browser on workspace 2, then workspace 2 is only blinking red and I have to switch manually to it.

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#3 2022-09-13 11:45:59

markmarkmark
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Registered: 2022-09-13
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Re: Cannot focus on new urgent windows in i3wm

xerxes_ wrote:

Where have you seen or heard that this is possible?
I also use i3wm and when I click in workspace 1 in terminal to open link in web browser on workspace 2, then workspace 2 is only blinking red and I have to switch manually to it.

That's what `for_window [urgent=latest] focus` should do, instead of blinking the workspace, it should automatically switch to it.

RounakDutta wrote:

I have firefox in workspace 2

I'm having the same issue with `firefox`, in the sense that it doesn't even mark the workspace as `urgent`. Could you try setting a different browser as default, e.g. `chromium`, and just running `xdg-open https://www.google.com/`?

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