toggle_i3_titlebar

Deprecation Notice

Use oi3h instead. Specifically, you can use:

$ oi3h border -t 'normal 2' 'pixel 2'

or something similar to achieve equivalent functionality.

What does this do?

This program toggles titlebar visibility for the currently focused window in i3.

More specifically, it toggles between the pair:

• "border normal 2"
• "border pixel 2"

instead of the triplet:

• "border normal 2"
• "border pixel 0"
• "border pixel 2"

which is what the "border toggle" i3 command does.

Why would I want this?

You might want to be able to quickly show and then hide the titlebar, for example to read the title text, or to see if a window has a mark set. If you want to use a single key binding with the "border toggle" command, you'll have to press the key once to turn the titlebar on, and then twice to turn it off again (or vice-versa, if your theme/style doesn't use window borders). This is annoying. Another option is to define two key bindings -- one to show the titlebar, and another to hide it. This is also annoying.

How do I use this?

Build

$ cargo build --release
$ cp target/release/toggle_i3_titlebar /somewhere/in/your/$PATH/

Use

~/.config/i3/config

# manually enable / disable titlebar
#bindsym $mod+t border toggle                           # (︶︹︺)
#bindsym $mod+t border normal 2                         # (︶︹︺)
#bindsym $mod+Shift+t border pixel 2
bindsym $mod+t exec --no-startup-id toggle_i3_titlebar  # <(￣︶￣)>

etc.

If you don't use a window border, or use a value other than 2 pixels, you'll need to modify the source, but that should be pretty easy. TODO: command line flags? I originally wrote this in Python, but the time it takes for the Python interpreter to start is noticable.