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Key binding to drop all "taken" windows into a vertical column

Open kkowalski-reef opened this issue 9 months ago • 1 comments

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. "Take" makes it convenient to collect random windows. While it's possible to toggle the placement rule while windows are taken to decide where windows will be placed, I usually just have it set up to "RIGHT" since it's what I want most of the time in other scenarios. It'd be cool to be able to easily drop them into a column no matter what the current placement rule is and not affect the placement rule.

Describe the solution you'd like A key binding to drop all "taken" windows specifically into a column (or specifically to the right / left) overriding the currently set window placement rule, without having to change the rule back and forth.

Describe alternatives you've considered Change the placement rule on the fly. Although I need to immediately change it back because I almost never want windows to go into columns by default so it's not very convenient.

kkowalski-reef avatar Apr 04 '25 03:04 kkowalski-reef

Change the placement rule on the fly. Although I need to immediately change it back because

I've been needing something similar, a way to set the placement rule temporarily. Basically set the "one-off" placement rule, do action and revert back to the original placement.

It could be used in your case but also allow to create shortcuts (using external shortcut program) to use a specific placement. For example Window+Return create a new window of the current app. I would like it to be always on the right and set Ctrl-Enter to be on Left. Also I could create a key binding just "pushing" the current window to the far right (basically calling T, set the placement to END and revert to the previous placement)

maxigit avatar Apr 04 '25 09:04 maxigit