It is trivial to create an action that pops the current client into a new column.
Want 3 cols without even touching the exclusive flag? Just start 3 clients, and pop 2 of them into new cols. uriel On 3/3/06, Anselm R. Garbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 02:05:50PM +0100, Anselm R. Garbe wrote: > > See the other mail as well, to summarize, the 'problem' is, that > > column allows more or less columns than 2, and the larsWM > > concept does not scale well to more than 2 columns without > > getting into corner cases as mentioned in the other mail. > > On the other hand, your points here are not wrong, if they are > > simply based on your impression by larsWM or tiled layout in > > 2.5.x. But column layout is rather more flexible (thus complex) > > then the 2-track concept. > > Btw. an easy proof why exclusive flag (aka locking) does not > work well with column layout is easy. Assume you want to create > 3 columns. How do you do that with implicit column creation? > > - run a terminal > - set column exclusive (might be the default on a new page) > - run a second terminal (this is attached to a newly created > column) > - set column exclusive (ok, we got two adjacent exclusive > columns) > - run a terminal > (unclear: what happens if the first column is selected?) > at least a third column needs to be created > - unset exclusive flag of first column > - unset exclusive flag of second column > > Now compare this with what I'd do instead: > > - press Alt-n > - press Alt-n > - press Alt-n > > What is easier and more predictable? > > Regards, > -- > Anselm R. Garbe ><>< www.ebrag.de ><>< GPG key: 0D73F361 > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wmii >
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