In-place restart/upgrade support?

[zheltikov]

Hello!

I've been using aerospace for a couple of months now and I like it!

The only inconvenience I sometimes face is when upgrading to new versions. I miss the inplace restart i3 feature: docs, more docs

This would be quite useful, instead of quitting aerospace, starting it again, and having to rearrange the windows back to their place again...

Thanks!

[agenttank]

just as a suggestion. use something like this, to automatically send windows/apps to the correcty workspace when you start aerospace. it is worth the effort :)

run this and note the strings in the second column to use later as "app-id"

aerospace list-apps

then add something like this to the bottom of your .aerospace.toml

[[on-window-detected]]
if.app-id = 'com.spotify.client'
run = ['move-node-to-workspace 9']

[[on-window-detected]]
if.app-id = 'com.microsoft.teams2'
run = ['move-node-to-workspace 7']

[[on-window-detected]]
if.app-id = 'com.microsoft.Outlook'
run = ['move-node-to-workspace 8']

[[on-window-detected]]
if.app-id = 'com.bitwarden.desktop'
run = ['move-node-to-workspace 10']

[[on-window-detected]]
if.app-id = 'com.microsoft.edgemac'
run = ['move-node-to-workspace 4']

[[on-window-detected]]
if.app-id = 'com.microsoft.rdc.macos'
run = ['move-node-to-workspace 5']

[GraemeARobinson]

I have a similar setup, but is there a way to assign a workspace to a monitor without pinning it to that monitor permanently?

[incanus]

I would love a state save that's not tying apps/windows to workspaces permanently as well, as I tend to vary which workspaces I use for what depending on task. So restarting AeroSpace is fairly tedious to get everything back where I want it. Something like dumping the currents state to a temp file, then loading that (if exists) on restart could be a solution?

[gempir]

Have you thought about just running the action on start of AeroSpace?

[[on-window-detected]]
if.app-name-regex-substring = 'Obsidian'
if.during-aerospace-startup = true
run = ['move-node-to-workspace 5']

This should allow you to restart AeroSpace and let it re-organize the windows after it starts, after that you can move them how you want.

[l00sed]

Is there a recommended way to restart the AeroSpace app? I've been terminating through htop and then running again.

[incanus]

I had been using the Terminal, but now I click the menu item, use the quit entry (click or keystroke), and then restart.

[l00sed]

Ah, nice, good tip! Thanks. I appreciate that it's still a keyboard-accessible option with the Raycast launcher.