# This program gets a list of all windows in i3 and based on the name of the window it moves them to a specific workspace

i3-organize.sh

#!/bin/bash

# This program gets a list of all windows in i3 and based on the name of the window it moves
# them to a specific workspace


# Get workspace names: i3-msg -t get_workspaces

# https://jsonselector.com helps
WINDOWS=$(i3-msg -t get_tree | jq '[.nodes[1].nodes[1].nodes[] | select(.type="workspace") | .nodes[] | {id: .id, name: .window_properties.instance}]')

echo -n "$WINDOWS" | jq -c '.[]' | while read -r window
do
    window_id=$(echo -n "$window" | jq '.id')
    # jq leaves surrouding quotation marks
    window_name=$(echo -n "$window" | jq '.name' | sed 's/"//g')

    echo "$window_id"
    echo "$window_name"

    case "$window_name" in
        # don't do anything for firefox since it can be in any workspace
        Navigator)
        ;;
    spotify)
        i3-msg "[con_id=$window_id]" move container to workspace '4:🎧'
        ;;
    xfce4-taskmanager)
        i3-msg "[con_id=$window_id]" move container to workspace '5:📊'
        ;;
    beeper)
        i3-msg "[con_id=$window_id]" move container to workspace '6:💬'
        ;;
    steamwebhelper)
        i3-msg "[con_id=$window_id]" move container to workspace '8:🕹️'
        ;;
    lutris)
        i3-msg "[con_id=$window_id]" move container to workspace '8:🕹️'
        ;;
esac
done