Happy urxvt user wants a dropdown term.

[a-109-107]

I really miss having a dropdown term here in i3wm with urxvt. Ideally I want something that is always 100% width and ~33% height regardless of screen size. I've tried the following script:

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#!/bin/bash

wid=$(xdotool search --classname urxvtq)

if [ -z "$wid" ]; then
  urxvt -name urxvtq -geometry 80x28
  wid=$(xdotool search --classname urxvtq)
  xdotool windowfocus $wid
elif [ -z "$(xdotool search --onlyvisible --classname urxvtq 2>/dev/null)" ]; then
  xdotool windowmap $wid
  xdotool windowfocus $wid
else
  xdotool windowunmap $wid
fi

Or variations of this thing over at faq.i3wm.org

The failure points of these (most likely introduced by my incompetency) were:
- inability to smoothly go from dropdown term in monitor one, shift focus onto monitor two, re-open term with proper size
- accidentally killing the terminal disables the functionality

I bet one of you Wizards has a solution to this

[dkeg]

that's similar to the example on the arch wiki. Have you tried that one?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Rxvt-unicode

[a-109-107]

Thanks! I have no clue how I overlooked that; It works good so far when combined with xdotool's windowsize.

edit: however, this won't move the running dropdown to another workspace - I know this is now i3wm specific, not urxvt/xdotool; I'm working on it, but suggestions welcome.

[a-109-107]

I found a solution to my own problem tdrop

[dkeg]

Interesting project. Good find.