i3-auto-layout
i3-alternating-layout
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i3-auto-layout
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Rethinking Window Management in Gnome
The problem with this fairly complex solution is that the easier path by far is simpler window arrangements, multiple monitors, and many workspaces. Once you have more windows than fit on a workspace its easier just to have more workspaces and 1-3 windows is what basically universally fits on most monitors.
If you organize more things in the same space you probably need indivdual apps that themselves have tabs like browsers, editors, IDEs rather than more windows.
Personally I use https://github.com/chmln/i3-auto-layout to make slightly better layouts automatically be automatically alternating between v and h splits and find this fits my needs 95% of the time.
Shit work under i3 is already very small but if you wanted to reduce it further I think you could probably go a long way with a very simple feature.
Add a save button that saves current layout to a list like so
Browser, calculator
Browser, pdf reader
terminal terminal terminal
ide terminal terminal
Then have a restore function that simply walks the list finds the entry that matches the kind and number of window and shoves existing windows into that layout. You can at creation time use something like i3-save-tree, edit the json, yada yada but its all fairly manual and I think for the use case it would be relatively simpler. The few non standard all match for me a simple pattern eg there really isn't 2 different ways I want IDE terminal terminal
- XMonad – The Automated Tiling WM
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I3altlayout
i3-auto-layout is faster and less resource usage
i3-alternating-layout
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XMonad – The Automated Tiling WM
i3 has manual tiling by choice and it isn't necessary to port automatic tiling to i3 itself. You can make a service that utilizes i3's IPC that does that. And of course people have done so[1][2].
[1]: https://github.com/olemartinorg/i3-alternating-layout
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What are your favorite ways to improve your I3 WM experience that other people should try out?
I prefer i3 to any other twm, but the lack of any automatic layout drives me nuts, so I use https://github.com/olemartinorg/i3-alternating-layout in my autostarts
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nwg-dock 0.0.1 ready for testing
The original concept comes from https://github.com/olemartinorg/i3-alternating-layout. I only wrote a script capable of working on both i3 and sway.
What are some alternatives?
autotiling - Script for sway and i3 to automatically switch the horizontal / vertical window split orientation
nixos - My NixOS Configurations
spectrwm - A small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.
azote - Wallpaper manager for wlroots-based compositors and some other WMs
bspwm - A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning
nixos - NixOS Configuration
river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
yabai - A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning
dotfiles - A collection of my dotfiles and other configurations
Amethyst - Automatic tiling window manager for macOS à la xmonad.
nwg-dock - GTK3-based dock for sway