Positioning windows does not work on i3wm about pympress HOT 5 CLOSED

From the warning you get, I suppose you only have 1 screen ? Then the "swap screens" functionality can't do anything indeed.

Let's check this, can you run the following in a python console? Also what's your Gtk version?

import gi
from gi.repository import Gdk
Gdk.Display.get_default().get_n_monitors()

We could disable that button or something in that case, but that means we need to watch for adding/removing screens events, which isn't really our role and were added in Gtk 3.22. Maybe an error message is enough.

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No, i have 2 screen, but my wm is i3wm

Python 3.6.4 (default, Jan 5 2018, 02:35:40)
[GCC 7.2.1 20171224] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
import gi
from gi.repository import Gdk
main:1: PyGIWarning: Gdk was imported without specifying a version first. Use gi.require_version('Gdk', '3.0') before import to ensure that the right version gets loaded.
Gdk.Display.get_default().get_n_monitors()
2

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So if you have the right amount of screens I'm guessing it's not responding to the way we place windows. We do it pretty straightforwardly: get the monitor position, move window to those coordinates.

As I don't have i3wm it's going to be hard to tell what that is caused by, but I'm guessing this is due to i3wm being a tiling window manager, so it just doesn't comply with our instructions in order to do its tiling thing. Gtk's documentation says about moving windows (empahsis mine):

Asks the window manager to move self to the given position. Window managers are free to ignore this; most window managers ignore requests for initial window positions (instead using a user-defined placement algorithm) and honor requests after the window has already been shown.

So it seems OK for window managers to ignore requests, meaning we probably can't fix this. However, the windows have different roles (see #54) so you could probably use that to setup your window manager to do the correct thing.

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Well I'm afraid this is going to be hard to implement or even check. I don't have i3wm, my distro doesn't have it, and I even tried and failed to run my session with another tiling window manager, bspwm.

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After looking into this, i3 doesn't respect the window managers indications, so there's nothing that pympress can do.

You can make shortcuts yourself in i3 though, e.g. for moving windows to monitors (or containers to ouputs, in their terminology). You can even make a command to swap two windows.

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