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I'm fairly new to this application so forgive me if I'm missing something obvious. Is there a way to spawn a new terminal session for each quickterm invoked on different workspaces? For example right now if I open a quickterm on workspace 3 and start a 'ping' operation, then go to workspace 4 and open a quickterm again, I see the same ping operation from workspace 3. I'd like to have a "fresh" terminal on workspace 4.

OS: Manjaro 20.2
i3: 4.19
Laptop: Dell XPS 7590
Screen resolution: 3840x2160

When I start quickterm it does not take full length of the screen, it takes about 70%. My config goes as follows:

{
    "term": "alacritty",
    "history": "{$HOME}/.cache/i3/i3-quickterm.order",
    "ratio": 0.25,
    "pos": "top",
    "shells": {
        "shell": "{$SHELL}"
    }
}

Any hints?

qt offers ratio configuration for setting height, but in addition to that I'd prefer it to also remember our ad-hoc resizes between toggles.

Current state:
a) shell is opened, height X
b) shell height is resized to Y
c) shell is toggled, hiding it
d) shell is toggled again, height X

To-be state:
a) shell is opened, height X
b) shell height is resized to Y
c) shell is toggled, hiding it
d) shell is toggled again, height remains at Y

Just fyi I'm working on it already, will be sending in a PR soon for consideration.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "i3-quickterm", line 250, in <module>
    toggle_quickterm_select(conf)
  File "i3-quickterm", line 194, in toggle_quickterm_select
    toggle_quickterm(conf, shell)
  File "i3-quickterm", line 219, in toggle_quickterm
    os.execvp(term_cmd[0], term_cmd)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/os.py", line 615, in execvp
    _execvpe(file, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/os.py", line 660, in _execvpe
    raise last_exc.with_traceback(tb)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/os.py", line 650, in _execvpe
    exec_func(fullname, *argrest)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

What seems to be the problem here? Am I doing something wrong? I'm using i3 4.15 on ubuntu 16.04.

Thanks for making this. I'm getting the following error when I run ./i3-quickterm.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./i3-quickterm", line 252, in <module>
    toggle_quickterm_select(conf)
  File "./i3-quickterm", line 155, in toggle_quickterm_select
    ws, ws_tree = get_current_workspace(conn)
  File "./i3-quickterm", line 141, in get_current_workspace
    ws = [w for w in conn.get_workspaces() if w['focused']][0]
  File "./i3-quickterm", line 141, in <listcomp>
    ws = [w for w in conn.get_workspaces() if w['focused']][0]
TypeError: 'WorkspaceReply' object is not subscriptable

python: Python 3.6.8
i3: i3 version 4.16.1 (2019-01-27) © 2009 Michael Stapelberg and contributors

It is cool. Let's make it better.

Just found your project, looks pretty cool!
Though, when trying to run it for the first time it complains about lack of json config.

invalid config file: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/rskolasinski/.config/i3/i3-quickterm.json'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./i3-quickterm", line 243, in <module>
    toggle_quickterm_select(conf)
  File "./i3-quickterm", line 188, in toggle_quickterm_select
    toggle_quickterm(conf, shell)
  File "./i3-quickterm", line 212, in toggle_quickterm
    os.execvp(term_cmd[0], term_cmd)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/os.py", line 572, in execvp
    _execvpe(file, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/os.py", line 614, in _execvpe
    raise last_exc
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/os.py", line 605, in _execvpe
    exec_func(fullname, *argrest)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

maybe it would be a good idea to create that with default value?

Having the config file in .config/i3/ doesn't make much sense considering this isnt i3 specific. It would be good to have the config file in its own directory.

Certain programs such as Discord and Lutris seem to get absorbed, becoming the dropdown instead of the terminal...

I can't find any description of installation.

Guake, Yakukake (or even Konsole) allow you to have multiple terminals simultaneously and have them under different tabs.

I wonder if it would be possible to extend your code to somehow support this in a neat way?

Kitty has this nice feature that lets you launch it with a predefined session info using the switcher --session.
I tried every possible option I could think of in order to get this to work, including manually setting the title of my session to quickterm_***.
Maybe I'm missing something, but is it even possible?

Thanks.