i3-msg how to execute a specific command right after termite startup

Question

I'm using this command to start my i3 layout: exec --no-startup-id "i3-msg 'workspace 1; append_layout /home/michael/.i3/workspace-1.json'; exec termite; exec termite"

I have two windows which swallow these termite instances. I'd love to have htop and ranger executed right after each terminal starts. Unfortunately exec htop i.e. right after ...; exec termite;... is not working even using && is not working.

I thought about having starting this via ~/.bashrc but how to have two separate commands run for each terminal instance? Is there a way to label a command and ask for that label within bashrc ?

Answer 1

I figure out termite has a -e option where you can append a shell command onto.

exec termite -e ranger is what I wanted to achieve.