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joewing / jwm

Joe's Window Manager
http://joewing.net/projects/jwm
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please implement tabbed windows #422

Open zaxebo1 opened 6 years ago

zaxebo1 commented 6 years ago

when switching from fluxbox to JWM to minimize dependencies, everything goes well . But only one thing one misses and that is tabbed windows. If you implement it , (atleast as an optional compilation time enabling feature or may be a full feature), then JWM will be feature complete among the MIT licensed stacking lightweight window manager users. I request you to kindly implement this

ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_X_window_managers

thanks in advance :-)

technosaurus commented 6 years ago

irc jwm recently​ added group and list. "group" combines tasks of the same class so that you get something similar to what you are asking for. "list" (or is it "labeled"?) will display only the icon in the task bar (nice for touch screens)

zaxebo1 commented 6 years ago

thanks for the information and quick reply. Actually i was using old version packaged with my linux distribution. I will download the latest version of jwm and will try that.

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Question: Does your information also mean that at the wikipedia link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_X_window_managers , we should update the "tabbed windows" column to "yes" for jwm ???

technosaurus commented 6 years ago

@zaxebo1 Not exactly. The window itself does not have the tabs when "grouped", but all instances are grouped together in one place in the taskbar. I haven't used grouping in a while except to test it, but if it doesn't already exist it would probably be a smallish patch to duplicate the taskbar functionality into the title bar (maybe by right clicking the icon or title on the title bar) which would be good for things like surf web browser to replace the tabbed utility.

Since jwm doesn't support drag and drop, fluxbox's dragging window to another windows tab area would be more difficult.

mmetak commented 4 years ago

Hello. Any new progress on this issue? Recently started trying out jwm and I really like it and one feature that I miss the most from i3 is tabbed windows. It really does make things so much better.

JBHoren commented 3 weeks ago

Hello. Any new progress on this issue?

I was looking at PekWM and was impressed with its "window grouping" feature -- it's a capability that would enhance my long-time (now more than a dozen years) use and enjoyment of JWM. Please?