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conformal / spectrwm

A small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.
ISC License
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[feature request/help?] Making use on a big monitor more pleasant? #447

Open moesasji opened 3 years ago

moesasji commented 3 years ago

Since upgrading to a 32" monitor I notice that I find having the master on the left uncomfortable as I need to turn my head. Moreover a single open window tends to be too wide to work with comfortably.

For xmonad people seem to have come up with a good solution; but for me avoiding having to move to xmonad would be nice ;)

Looking at the spectrwm code there seems to be the ability to have multiple stack columns, but I don't really see a way to put the master as the middle column like is done in the above link. Is there somehow a way to put the master-column at the center with a stack both left and right to make spectrwm a bit more pleasant on a large monitor?

btw) ideally having the ability to restrict to the width of the master when opening the first window would also be really, really nice to have.

ronniedroid commented 3 years ago

Won't regions fix your problem?

moesasji commented 3 years ago

@ronniedroid My understanding from the man-page is that a region is per monitor (or to combine multiple monitors into one large region), so I don't immediately see how that would help me achieve something similar to the screenshots here?

Note that having a bit more control over the placement of the stacking areas when using multiple columns looks cleaner to me and fit with the idea that you still want to be able to resize the master if you want to have that one as the center column.