On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 10:05:51AM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote: > For the purpose of presentation, assume that I work with xterms a lot > and that my screen has room for four of them (top left, top right, > bottom left and bottom right). Now assume further that I have more than > 4 xterm windows, and at any given time, I would like to see a different > subset of them. > > Now, my screen layout would mean that I have two columns, each of which > has two xterms in it and is in default layout mode. But now assume that > I would like to swap one of the xterms out and replace it with a > different one: > > * Where do all the xterms live that I'm not currently looking at?
The answer to this question is tagging. Tag unused clients differently (e.g. tag them 'fnord' like I do in dwm, and later visit the 'fnord' view, to bring them back to your normal view). > * How to swap the xterm out that I don't need to see anymore and how > to swap in the one that I do want to see now? In wmii-3.1 you can address all tags accessing the /<tag>/ namespace in the same way as accessing the /view/ (currently seen tag) namespace. Thus you can tag clients in /fnord/sel/sel/tags for re-attaching to current view and vice versa, e.g. wmiir read /view/name|wmiir write /fnord/sel/sel/tags > If I have more than two xterms in a column, then the xterms won't be > tall enough. If I put the column into stacked or maximized mode, then I > can only see two xterms at the same time, instead of four. > > How do people handle this? One needs to get used to column layout. For wmii-4 the modes will be removed in favor for a collapse flag per client. I think this provides a simpler and more-flexible interface. Regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe ><>< www.ebrag.de ><>< GPG key: 0D73F361 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wmii
