New layout: 'Strip'

[koekeishiya]

Placeholder for now; theoretical only. Will be relevant for ultrawide, but possibly also regular resolutions.

[kinglouie]

I found this issue because with sequoia the yabai fork of FelixKratz with some ultrawide features is not working properly anymore. And without ultrawide specific features yabai is not as pleasant to use.

Here are some issues I found while using yabai on my 32:9 aspect ultrawide.

issues

window width

since a 32:9 display is basically two regular displays the available width is to large for a single window to be useful.

• It would be nice to have a mechanism (rule?) to set a maximum window width and then bunch up all windows in the screen center.
• Bonus feature: set min/max/preferred width for individual applications by rules.

layout

the bsp layout is not useful when dealing with 1-4 windows on a space because most of the time you would want to only split vertically up to 4 windows. With an odd number like 3 windows you would want to have 1 window centered. When dealing with more than 4 windows I start to treat my ultrawide more like a traditional two monitor setup where I start splitting horizontally and want to use the bsp layout.

• Maybe there could be a rule mechanic to change the layout from strip to bsp depending the available horizontal space left on the strip.
• If there is no more horizontal space for the minimum window width available, only then start splitting horizontally.