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Do you manually move certain apps to certain workspaces, or do you have configurations to do it automatically? I've tried setting up the config to always have Firefox on workspace 3 and Slack on 4, but it doesn't work. I can do it with terminal, though. I've also done the xprop command to find the WM_CLASS property, but still no luck

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I move everything around manually on login, and then try not to log out. For a while I was using xmonad, and setting things to automatically land on the right workspace was easy there, but ultimately I like the i3wm experience better.

I saw something in the i3 docs about this feature, but it didn't work on the first try and I didn't dig deeper.

See my dotfiles: https://github.com/Kubuxu/dotfiles/blob/master/i3/config.bas...

'assign' allows you make so if window opens, it opens on given screen Lower, you can see me switch to given workspace before autostarting apps.

I've tried the assign keyword, but I can't get it to work with Firefox or slack

assign [class="Firefox] 3 assign [class="Slack"] 4

But it doesn't work for me

It definitely works. I'm on mobile now but remember that the two parameters in the wm_class correspond to name and class (I always forget which is which) . Also you can use regex in the matching iirc

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