[SOLVED] How to move workspace to monitor

How to move workspace to monitor

I regularly change physical setup (work from home and office) and need a flexible and quick way of changing workspace form monitor to monitor.

OS: Arch
Window Manager: i3

Solution

There are a number of ways to do this.

Use the command line:

$ i3-msg move workspace to output left
[{"success":true}]
$ i3-msg move workspace to output right
[{"success":true}]
$ i3-msg move workspace to output next
[{"success":true}]

Add bindsym binds in your i3 config file as per other answers (for regolith users here is a good example).

Use python:

#!/usr/bin/env python3

# pip install --user i3-py rich

import i3
import rich

DEBUG = False

outputs = i3.get_outputs()
workspaces = i3.get_workspaces()

focused_workspace = [w for w in workspaces if w["focused"] == True][0]
active_outputs = [o for o in outputs if o["active"] == True]
other_output = [o for o in active_outputs if o["name"] != focused_workspace["output"]][
    0
]

if DEBUG:
    print("outputs:")
    rich.print(outputs)
    print("workspaces:")
    rich.print(workspaces)
    print("focused_workspace:")
    rich.print(focused_workspace)
    print("active_outputs:")
    rich.print(active_outputs)
    print("other_workspace:")
    rich.print(other_output)

# Send current workspace to other output
i3.command("move", "workspace to output " + other_output["name"])

See this gist for other versions.