On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 10:58:10AM +0000, Hritik Vijay wrote: > > Are there window managers that do NOT behave this way with respect > > to workspaces? > > I've seen i3 handle this case with a i3-exec binary. It basically > launches the target application and signals the i3wm where it was > executed. I guess something similar could be developed here. It could > be used as a wrapper inside dmenu launcher.
I can't find a binary named i3-exec in the i3 GitHub repository (https://github.com/i3/i3) or in lists of files for the i3 Debian package (https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/amd64/i3-wm/filelist). Eric
