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Hi thanks for the script, but I had some issues with getting it to work.
You might want to consider to add some info into the Readme:

1. Dependency of liblinux-inotify2-perl which is availabe on Debian via sudo apt install liblinux-inotify2-perl
2. Configuration Keys are case sensitive.
3. Configuration Values support Fontawesome chars and styling as in the docu: e.g.:
   "Terminal "
4. When using the switch-to-workspace feature, consider this:

I used to bind the name of the workspace this way:

set $workspace1 "1: Terminal"
...
assign [class="URxvt"] $workspace1
...
bindsym $mod+1 workspace $workspace1

This needs to be changed to:

set $workspace1 "1"
...
assign [class="URxvt"] number $workspace1
..
bindsym $mod+1 workspace number $workspace1

Note the additional number in the command

I have this config
{
"classes": {
"chromium": "www",
"xfce4-terminal": "term",
"gnome-terminal": "term",
"sublime_text": "subl",
"okular": "pdf",
"google-chrome": "www",
"firefox": "www"
},
"instances": {
"mail.google.com": "gmail"
}
}
with this xprop WM_CLASS(STRING) = "mail.google.com", "Chromium"
but the instance of mail.google.com always shows "www" instead of gmail,
I'm doing it wrong?
Thanks
edit: mail.com.google runs through a bash script to make it "web app"

When I was using this project with the Iconic Fonts (Font Awesome 5), I had the space-char rendered incorrectly looking like this.

Apparently, this is related to Pango as mentioned here, but the fix somehow did not work.
Anachron/i3blocks#53

However, using a workaround of having a transparent space (or any other char), has the same effect.
I changed https://github.com/mh21/i3-renameworkspaces/blob/master/i3-renameworkspaces.pl#L64
from
$newname = join(': ', $num, join(' ', @{$$ws{'windows'}}) || ());
to
$newname = join(': ', $num, join('<span foreground=\'#00000001\'> <span>', @{$$ws{'windows'}}) || ());

Please consider adding a comment above this line which mentions this issue/workaround.

Also, a note in the readme file referring to the PangoMarkupFormat which is available, would be helpful.

Hi,
thanks for the script, it makes i3 bar a whole lot more sense. A tiny problem is that it keeps pumping into the logs the error message:
Use of uninitialized value in lc at /home/..[path]../i3-renameworkspaces/i3-renameworkspaces.pl line 51.
(Using perl 5.30.3)
Can this be fixed? (unfortunately, I have no idea about perl).