i3status-wrapper: new_container: properly handle empty workspaces

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/desktop/i3status-wrapper b/scripts/desktop/i3status-wrapper
index 6f3cb007..135a28ef 100755
--- a/scripts/desktop/i3status-wrapper
+++ b/scripts/desktop/i3status-wrapper
@@ -81,14 +81,18 @@ unless (fork // warn "couldn't fork monitoring loop") {
 	# Leave it to a later loop iteration to update the focus.
 	my $ws = $info{paper_ws}{$info{focused_ws}};
 	my $cols = $ws->{cols};
-	my $i = first { $cols->[$_] == $ws->{focused_col} } 0..$#$cols;
-	splice $cols->@*, $i+1, 0, shift->{container}{id};
-	if ($ws->{monocle} || $cols->@* > $ws->{ncols}) {
-	    with_ignored_events {
-		my $pushed = shift $cols->@*;
-		$wmipc->cmd(hide_con($pushed));
-		push $ws->{off_left}->@*, $pushed;
-	    };
+	if ($ws->{cols}->@*) {
+	    my $i = first { $cols->[$_] == $ws->{focused_col} } 0..$#$cols;
+	    splice $cols->@*, $i+1, 0, shift->{container}{id};
+	    if ($ws->{monocle} || $cols->@* > $ws->{ncols}) {
+		with_ignored_events {
+		    my $pushed = shift $cols->@*;
+		    $wmipc->cmd(hide_con($pushed));
+		    push $ws->{off_left}->@*, $pushed;
+		};
+	    }
+	} else {
+	    push $ws->{cols}->@*, shift->{container}{id};
 	}
     }
     eval {