Thank you very much for starting this discussion, posting the code, making the video, etc. For the record, I think using Libreoffice Calc as a presentation tool was inspired.
As a relatively new Stump user I've also been curious about groups. The 1D list of groups has felt limiting compared to previous WMs I've used that supported a 2D grid of workspaces (and so far have been too lazy to write functions to do the appropriate modular arithmetic to simulate a 2D. Now with your code we can go 3D—even better!). I think you have an unusually window-heavy workflow, and other ways of skinning the cat include having a lot of buffers in one Emacs, browser tabs, terminal tabs, perhaps tmux, using multiple monitors/heads, using splits (back when I had a 4k monitor it was almost necessary to use splits to make windows a usable size), etc. I personally have a group called "messaging" with five or six apps in it (Signal, Slack, Element, etc.) and am happy to use C-t <n> (0 through 5) to get the right one up. FWIW, I have hotkeys to cycle between groups and move windows between groups. I completely forgot about the C-t F# bindings and don't plan to use them. Anyway, that's my answer to how I deal with group management and I'm very interested to hear how other people approach it. —Tim ----- Tim Macdonald https://tsmacdonald.com/ On Tue, Mar 8, 2022 at 5:52 PM Russell Adams <rlad...@adamsinfoserv.com> wrote: > It occurred to me that the reason why the spatial concept was so > different is that it's a method of inter-group or inter-screen > management. > > Tiling is intra-screen, how we divide up a single screen to show > multiple application windows without overlapping. > > Spatially organizing entire screens together is inter-screen > management, which provides a grid of screens and a desktop analogy to > navigate. > > Today the default for this is a variable list of single screens. I > have the impression this is generally a short list, with new groups > made for a specific purpose. However I don't think there is a method > for organizing groups outside of that list. > > All the default keybinds work with a short list of groups. For example > next group, prev group, select group from list, jump to group by > function key. In particular C-t F# looks limited to function keys F1 > through F12. > > Is that truly the case, that most StumpWM users are just navigating > between a few groups with hotkeys? > > Are there other methods of inter-group management or organization? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Russell Adams rlad...@adamsinfoserv.com > > PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ > > Fingerprint: 1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3 > >
