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Can I do this in hyprland? In sway? In any other WM? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I want to have my screen (the "dev" workspace) split in three "zones":

on the left side, a tabbed group with all the text editors I start (ie. if I start a new one, it goes there in a new tab)
on the top-right, a tabbed group of whatever many terminal I feel like launching
on the bottom-right, my browsers (and possibly other stuff), in a group without tabs
a key combination to cycle between: all three "zones" visible, text editors on the left - terminal on the right, text editors on the left - browser on the right, fullscreen browser

So far I've been looking at hyprland (for no particular reason except the hype) and I don't think I can do the above with it (I am by no means an expert, so... maybe it can actually be done?).

Do you know of any WM where it would be possible? (possibly, one with automatic splitting a-la bspwm, that I would use for the other workspaces)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Reading https://codeberg.org/river/river/src/branch/master/protocol/river-layout-v3.xml it seems to me that what I want to do is actually not possible in river, even writing a custom layout manager...

IIUC the protocol works like this: river asks "how should I layout N windows in HxW screen?" and the layout replies "window1: H1xW1 at offset X1,Y1; window2: H2xW2 ...", so there is no way for the layout manager to identify specific windows and, in my use case, put all the text editors on the left side of the screen etc.

Did you have some other approach in mind when you suggested river? (I may very well be over-complicating things and not seeing a more straightforward solution)