On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Matthias Kirschner wrote:
Hi Josh,
* Josh Rickmar <[email protected]> [2009-05-31 21:04:31 -0400]:
First of all, I tried using it by setting the layout to max so that
every client would be maximized. The advantage of this is that the names
of the pages would still appear at the top, so I knew how my "tabs" were
organized. However, this method fails when trying to place another
application on this tag or showing two or more tags at the same time.
I am very interested in that. What do you mean with "fail"? Do you mean
that than also other applications apprear as "tabs"?
If I'm using the max layout, then yes. There is no distinction between a
browser window and any other kind of client, so if I add another client
to that tag, then it would appear as a "tab" as well.
The other thing that can happen is that I show two tags at the same
time. The problem with this is that I lose any kind of tabs and each
previous tab appears as its own client. Using tabulous solves this
problem, but then again, I don't know what other "tabs" there are and
what order they are in.
In my current setup, I increase the size of the master area and then
just shove all the other windows to the side. I can then easily
reorganize them and make any window the master through
Control-MOD4-Enter. This replaces the idea of "tabs" with "previews" and
works very similar to browsers such as Shiira (mac browser) where you
can actually replace tabs with thumbnails. This also works well when
just viewing the web browser, but doesn't work well when trying to view
it side-by-side with anything else (either another application on the
same tag or viewing 2+ tabs at the same time).
Since a few days I have configured all my applications who are able to
display tabs to ignore them and instead open everything in a new window
instead of a new tab. I am not sure if I will keep it, but until now it
feels good to have no switch between awesome window management and the
applications own window management (tabs). Before I had the feeling that
the tabs are limiting me, because I cannot decide how I would like to
view them.
So I give all web-browsers the web tag, because it does not matter for
me, if I visit a page in konqueror, epiphany, arora, elinks, or another
web browsers. And I can switch between all the different views for the
browser. Depending on which machine I am working I can use client max
(like tabbed browsing) on my 12", or for example fairv on huge screens.
The only problem I have at the moment is that I sometimes would like to
have the feature "open in background tab", to open a lot of links in the
background. That is not possible with my current setup. At the moment I
have to open a link in a new window, than do a "Meta 4 + k", open the
next link in a new window, and again "Meta 4 + k", ... That's a bit
complicated if you want to open >20 pages. Anyone a good solution for
that?
Best wishes,
Matthias
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