[Sway] Re: Shouldn't there be a Hot Key for a grid rearrangement of windows?

[Dan Čermák]

Hi Philip,

Philip Rhoades <phil(a)pricom.com.au&gt; writes:

>  Dan,
>
>
>  On 2021-08-17 16:12, Dan Čermák wrote:
> > Hi Philip,
> > 
> > Philip Rhoades <phil(a)pricom.com.au&gt; writes:
> > 
> >> People,
> >> 
> >> I have looked at the Sway and i3 cheat sheets but I can't find 
> >> anything
> >> - there are Hot Keys for rearranging windows: stacked, tabbed, toggle
> >> split - but shouldn't there be one for a grid? ie four windows would 
> >> be
> >> displayed like:
> >> 
> >> +-----+-----+
> >> |     |     |
> >> +-----+-----+
> >> |     |     |
> >> +-----+-----+
> >> 
> >> five would be:
> >> 
> >> +---+---+---+
> >> |   |   |   |
> >> +---+- -+---+
> >> |     |     |
> >> +-----+-----+
> > 
> > at least i3 definitely does not support something like this out of the
> > box. This looks more like a predefined layout which is supported by
> > other window managers like dwm or awesome.
>
>
>  I thought that might be the case - oh well . .  As I get more familiar 
>  with the setup, I will see if can create some sort of "macro" to do what 
>  I want . . I just worked out that in config I can use "bindsym ... exec" 
>  to run shell scripts so I will see how I go . . 
At least with i3 you can script just about anything using the IPC
interface: https://i3wm.org/docs/ipc.html


Cheers,

Dan