Hello there,

Objective

Start i3 and open two empty terminals, each in different tabbed layout sized differently.

But there is no way to distinguish them in the layout.json printed by i3-save-tree

Synopsis

According to the docs, I just use i3-save-tree, then edit and use append_layout on start and i3 will auto place window when it's opened where it needs to be, based on the place holder criteria i.e

# Restore saved layout
exec --no-startup-id \
    "if [ -e ~/.config/i3/layout.jsonc ]; then \
        i3-msg append_layout ~/.config/i3/layout.jsonc; \
    fi"

Problem

Is that, i3 expects windows to be different in some way; i.e an htop terminal and cmus terminal....but i just want two empty terminals and there is no way to distinguish them!

**When I open i3 and append layout, place holder 1 quickly grabs the terminal and place holder 2 takes it from 1 (closing it) and i in turn end up with one terminal

Desired end result

All these terminals are in separate tabbed layouts