A small snippet that shows how to run Emacs on the i3 scratch buffer. The i3 scratch buffer can appear and be dismissed with a single keypress, making it extremely useful for note capture.
This setup has been proven to work on FreeBSD 12 but should work anywhere with the paths changed as needed.
| # launch scratchpad frame in existing emacs daemon | |
| exec --no-startup-id /usr/local/bin/pad.sh | |
| # when scratchpad frame is launched, move it to the scratchpad workspace | |
| for_window [title="_emacs scratchpad_" class="Emacs"] move scratchpad |
| #!/bin/sh | |
| # launch emacsclient with special frame name | |
| /usr/local/bin/emacsclient -n -c \ | |
| "$HOME/scratch.txt" \ | |
| --frame-parameters "((name . \"_emacs scratchpad_\"))" |
| # launch emacs as daemon after X session starts but | |
| # before i3 "exec" commands run from its config | |
| /usr/local/bin/emacs --daemon | |
| exec i3 |