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Scratchpad specific applications and bind their showing/hiding to a key shortcut
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The below is a deprecated approach to showing/hiding applications on the scratchpad. I've moved to using more i3 native approaches. |
The i3 scratchpad is great holding area for application windows that you might want to keep hide from all workspaces until you need them. I often use the scratchpad for applications like my email client (which I don't want to see until an email arrives etc.) or for an on-demand terminal (not really a drop-down terminal but similar use case), or for an application that I regularly want to (quickly) popup, retrieve information and then have it get out of the way just as quickly (like a password manager for example).
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