Howdy,
first and foremost thanks for all the work that went into i3! It seems
to hit just the right sweet spot between feature set, ease of use,
documentation and extensibility.
While searching for solutions to display the title of the focused window
in the bar (I have three monitors and plenty of horizontal space that
should be put to good use), I was not able to come up with a fully
satisfying solution.
But I found an old thread that provides some useful code for such a
feature: "Added 'focus' IPC message/event" by Kevin Murphy,
<http://infra.in.zekjur.net/pipermail/i3-discuss/2012-November/001039.html>
With such an event it should be possible to keep the general refresh
rate low and still have the title updated immediately after focus change.
From the reply it seems that such an enhancement could make it into the
core. If the mentioned shortcomings could be fixed, would you be willing
to accept a patch? Thanks.
Cheers,
Marco
