workspacer
i3wm like layout option
In i3wm, I have the following:
- If I hit Win+V, it goes into vertical mode. Any new app opened is placed below the currently active window.
- If I hit Win+H, it goes into horizontal mode. Any new app opened is placed to the right of the currently active window.
Is something similar doable in Workspacer? Currently I see that If I open 4 apps, the first takes the left half of the screen and each subsequent app gets stacked vertically inside the right half of the screen.
Is something similar doable in Workspacer?
Not currently. Workspacer is a tilling WM, but not all tilling WMs are like i3 or sway :smile:
yeah, workspacer currently follows the "xmonad" style of tiling window manager philosophy, where the WM is 100% responsible for laying out windows for you, given some algorithm (the layout engine). i3/sway are tilers, but let you re-arrange the tiles however you want on the fly, dynamically.
In theory, layout engines can do whatever you want, and they are stateful, so you could implement the entire i3/sway layout strategy in a layout engine (in theory), but it would be a lot of work.
Completely untested on my part, but this might be another option more fitting for those who seek a Windows-based i3-equivalent:
https://github.com/McYoloSwagHam/win3wm