Re: [i3] Feature request: ion3-style "float split"

  • From: Sylvain Benner <sylvain.benner@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "Discussions/Questions about the i3 window manager" <i3-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 18:52:07 -0500

Hi Eero,

Why not use an horizontal layout and switch to full screen as needed ?

Your use case feels weird to me, i3 is a windows tiling manager.



Le samedi 28 décembre 2013, Eero Kari a écrit :

Hi,

the upcoming i3 layout restore feature almost completes my wishlist. The
only
thing lacking is the "float split" that ion3 had. I fired up notion just
to make
this 2-frame gif-animation showing the feature in action:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/20179139/ion3-float-split.gif

With the float split you could make two[1] containers overlap each other.
The
amount of overlap was controlled similarly as you would resize a window.
And the
layout stayed that way until changed it again.

I used to have firefox with docs on one side, and vim on the other. It
worked
wonders for my productivity and I miss it sorely. With that implemented i3
would
be complete :)

So, I accept the feature either as built-in, or as a working script[2].
Either
way is fine ;)

Thanks for the great wm!

- Eero

[1] or maybe even more, but I only ever used two.
[2] note that the containers overlap; a scripter couldn't get away with
just
resizing two side-by-size containers since it would trigger a redraw on the
clients and that would mess things up. A possible solution could be using
two
floaters and switching back and forth between them...



--
-syl20bnr-

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