Hi,
It appears that when applying a layout to workspace in i3 config folder, layout does not apply and shell returns an error :
{22:37}~/.i3:master ✗ ➭ i3-msg "workspace 10; append_layout workspace-10.json"
ERROR: Your command: (null)
ERROR: (null)
ERROR: Could not determine the contents of "workspace-10.json".
[{"success":true},{"success":false,"error":"Could not determine the contents of \"workspace-10.json\"."}]
If I go up it works fine :
{22:42}~/.i3:master ✗ ➭ cd ..
{22:42}~ ➭ i3-msg "workspace 10; append_layout .i3/workspace-10.json"
[{"success":true},{"success":true}]
If I go anywere :
{22:42}/etc ➭ i3-msg "workspace 10; append_layout /home/manu/.i3/workspace-10.json"
[{"success":true},{"success":true}]
i3 version
{22:45}~/.i3:master ✗ ➭ i3 -v
i3 version 4.10.2 (2015-04-16, branch "4.10.2") © 2009-2014 Michael Stapelberg and contributors
Log available here : http://logs.i3wm.org/logs/5663998322147328.bz2
fulljackz
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I don’t see a link to logs.i3wm.org. Did you follow http://i3wm.org/docs/debugging.html? (In case you actually provided a link to a logfile, please ignore me.)
i3bot
on 23 Jun 2015
Oh,
It seems that execute same command in i3 config folder with full path runs fine
{22:43}~/.i3:master ✗ ➭ i3-msg "workspace 10; append_layout /home/manu/.i3/workspace-10.json"
[{"success":true},{"success":true}]
This has nothing to do with .i3/ being .i3/. This is simply because for the i3 process, your home directory is the working directory and hence the internal call to fopen with the "path" workspace-10.json will work if and only if the file is present in the working directory = home directory, but not anywhere else.
It will always work when specifying a full path. You can also use globbing, e.g., append_layout ~/.i3/workspace-10.json.
Airblader
on 23 Jun 2015
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This has nothing to do with
.i3/being.i3/. This is simply because for the i3 process, your home directory is the working directory and hence the internal call tofopenwith the "path"workspace-10.jsonwill work if and only if the file is present in the working directory = home directory, but not anywhere else.It will always work when specifying a full path. You can also use globbing, e.g.,
append_layout ~/.i3/workspace-10.json.