How to share workspace names across two different monitors?

[attilajam]

Hello,

I want komorebi to work in a way where each monitor shares the same amount of workspaces, so if I do alt + 1, it would focus workspace 1 on the monitor that had that workspace created.

For example:

Monitor 1 has the following workspaces:
1, 2, 3, 4
Monitor 2 has:
5, 6, 7

If I did alt + 5, it would focus workspace 5 on monitor 2.

But instead, I have the following:
Monitor 1: 1, 2, 3, 4
Monitor 2: 1, 2, 3

So if I did alt + 1, it would go to the workspace 1 on the monitor that is focused. This adds mouse movement to get from one monitor to another.

I cannot figure out how to make this work, is it something I have to define in the monitor properties?

Here is my JSON

{
  "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi/v0.1.30/schema.json",
  "app_specific_configuration_path": "$Env:USERPROFILE/applications.json",
  "window_hiding_behaviour": "Cloak",
  "cross_monitor_move_behaviour": "Insert",
  "default_workspace_padding": 2,
  "default_container_padding": 2,
  "mouse_follows_focus": false,
  "border": true,
  "border_width": 3,
  "border_offset": -1,
  "border_colours": {
    "single": "#42a5f5",
    "stack": "#00a542",
    "monocle": "#ff3399",
    "unfocused": "#808080"
  },
  "stackbar": {
    "height": 40,
    "mode": "OnStack",
    "tabs": {
      "width": 300
    }
  },
  "monitors": [
    {
      "workspaces": [
        {
          "name": "I",
          "layout": "BSP"
        },
        {
          "name": "II",
          "layout": "BSP"
        },
        {
          "name": "III",
          "layout": "BSP"
        },
        {
          "name": "IV",
          "layout": "BSP"
        },
        {
          "name": "V",
          "layout": "BSP"
        },
        {
          "name": "VI",
          "layout": "BSP"
        },
        {
          "name": "VII",
          "layout": "BSP"
        },
        {
          "name": "VIII",
          "layout": "BSP"
        },
        {
          "name": "IX",
          "layout": "BSP"
        },
        {
          "name": "X",
          "layout": "BSP"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

[LGUG2Z]

It sounds like you're coming from the i3 style "global workspaces" mindset, which does not apply here at all. Each workspace must be bound to a monitor.

You probably want to use this command instead of focus-workspace: https://lgug2z.github.io/komorebi/cli/focus-monitor-workspace.html

You can have alt + 1-4 bound to focus-monitor-workspace 0 [0-3] and alt + 5-7 to focus-monitor-workspace 1 [0-2].

The configuration is declarative, so you should declare two monitors and their workspaces independently:

  "monitors": [
    // monitor index 0
    {
      "workspaces": [
        // workspace index 0
        {"name": "1", "layout": "BSP"}.
        {"name": "2", "layout": "BSP"}.
        {"name": "3", "layout": "BSP"}.
        {"name": "4", "layout": "BSP"}.
        }
      ]
    },
    // monitor index 1
    {
      "workspaces": [
        // workspace index 0
        {"name": "5", "layout": "BSP"}.
        {"name": "6", "layout": "BSP"}.
        {"name": "7", "layout": "BSP"}.
        }
      ]
    }
  ]

[attilajam]

Thank you, this worked. (Btw, the JSON code has dots instead of commas).

Here are the changes that I made to my configs, I use yasb + komorebi + whkd:

komorebi_workspaces:
    type: "komorebi.workspaces.WorkspaceWidget"
    options:
      label_offline: "Komorebi Offline"
      label_workspace_btn: "{name}"
      label_workspace_active_btn: "{name}"
      label_default_name: "{index}"
      label_zero_index: false
      hide_empty_workspaces: true

I changed the "label_workspace_btn" and "label_workspace_active_btn" to {name}.

"monitors": [
    {
      "workspaces": [
        { "name": "1", "layout": "BSP" },
        { "name": "2", "layout": "BSP" },
        { "name": "3", "layout": "BSP" },
        { "name": "4", "layout": "BSP" },
        { "name": "5", "layout": "BSP" }
      ]
    },
    {
      "workspaces": [
        { "name": "7", "layout": "BSP" },
        { "name": "8", "layout": "BSP" },
        { "name": "9", "layout": "BSP" },
        { "name": "10", "layout": "BSP" }
      ]
    }
  ]

This is the layout I ended up going with, and lastly the changes to whkdrc

# Workspaces
alt + 1                 : komorebic focus-monitor-workspace 0 0
alt + 2                 : komorebic focus-monitor-workspace 0 1
alt + 3                 : komorebic focus-monitor-workspace 0 2
alt + 4                 : komorebic focus-monitor-workspace 0 3
alt + 5                 : komorebic focus-monitor-workspace 0 4
alt + 6                 : komorebic focus-monitor-workspace 0 5
alt + 7                 : komorebic focus-monitor-workspace 1 0
alt + 8                 : komorebic focus-monitor-workspace 1 1
alt + 9                 : komorebic focus-monitor-workspace 1 2
alt + 0                 : komorebic focus-monitor-workspace 1 3

# Move windows across workspaces
alt + shift + 1         : komorebic move-to-monitor-workspace 0 0
alt + shift + 2         : komorebic move-to-monitor-workspace 0 1
alt + shift + 3         : komorebic move-to-monitor-workspace 0 2
alt + shift + 4         : komorebic move-to-monitor-workspace 0 3
alt + shift + 5         : komorebic move-to-monitor-workspace 0 4
alt + shift + 6         : komorebic move-to-monitor-workspace 0 5
alt + shift + 7         : komorebic move-to-monitor-workspace 1 0
alt + shift + 8         : komorebic move-to-monitor-workspace 1 1
alt + shift + 9         : komorebic move-to-monitor-workspace 1 2
alt + shift + 0         : komorebic move-to-monitor-workspace 1 3

This now works similar to the i3 style of global workspaces, expect that they are bounded to each monitor, as outlined above.