If you open Emacs in daemon+client mode (run emacs --daemon once, then emacsclient to open the window), buffers that you open in one client will be available on all other clients, even concurrently. Judging from a quick test (on hyprland), it also seems to open the file in the client located on the focused screen, but does not automatically open a new client if there is one already running on any screen.
They broke that at some point.
Feel free to write a bugreport.
I think it was done on purpose.
Anyway... I figured out a workaround in my script. By focusing one of the windows on the current workspace before I open a new tab it seems to make it the preferred window. It's not foolproof, sometimes it still selects one of the other windows, but it's close enough.
Here's the script in case anybody needs it, should work with any editor that has some sort of -tab and -window options if you grep for the correct window name:
#!/bin/bash
WORKSPACE=$(
wmctrl -d |\
grep '*' |\
awk '{print $1}'
)
WINID=$(
wmctrl -l |\
grep ' - Mousepad' |\
grep -E "\s${WORKSPACE}\s"|\
tail -1|\
awk '{print $1}'
)
if [ -z "$WINID" ]; then
exec /usr/bin/mousepad -o window "$@"
else
wmctrl -i -a "$WINID" && \
sleep 0.5 && \
exec /usr/bin/mousepad -o tab "$@"
fi
I guess you could give a few a try.
I use Xed and Geany and they seem to work as expected.
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