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Expo is a simple and straightforward way to get a visual
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impression of all your current virtual desktops that many
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compositing window managers use. It's not a very powerful
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approach, but a very intuitive one and especially fits workflows
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that use lots of temporary windows or those in which the
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workspaces are mentally arranged in a grid.
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i3expo emulates that function within the limitations of a
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non-compositing window manager. By listening to the IPC,
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it takes a screenshot whenever a window event occurs.
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Thanks to an extremely fast C library, this produces negligible
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overhead in normal operation and allows the script to remember
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what state you left a workspace in.
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The script is run as a background process and reacts to signals
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in order to open its UI in which you get an overview of the known
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state of your workspaces and can select another with the mouse or
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keyboard.
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