Enabling Window Border for i3wm

[Syphdias]

Hi, I just found out that there is a linux version of Obsidian when I thought it was Mac only and I am super stoked!

I use the window manger i3 and use keyboard shortcuts to navigate through my windows. Even switching focus to another window I do via the keyboard. Normal windows get a (colored) border when they are focused, unfortunately that is not the case with Obsidian.

I checked with xprop if X recognizes the focus and it does:

_NET_WM_STATE(ATOM) = _NET_WM_STATE_FOCUSED

…but there is no border. I think Obsidian is maybe disabling all UI from the window manager to make it look the same everywhere? Is there a way to turn that back on so I can see if I am typing in the right window?

[Syphdias]

Apparently I searched the wrong way around:
“Enable Border” → “Disable Framless”

This post goes into details and even provides a workaround:

Add option to enable/disable frameless mode

If you are still interested, I figured out how to hack this in. If you’re on linux, you can unpack the appimage file by running with the --appimage-extract flag, then unpack the obsidian.asar file inside using “npx asar extract”, change “frame: true” in main.js inside the extracted asar directory, and finally use appimagetool to rebundle the previously extracted directory into a new appimage. This will put the frame back. For me, I did this so that my window manager (dwm) could highlight Obsi…

I’d still really like a feature to do this properly