Vertical layout for portrait mode

[nicolandu]

I have a primary monitor in landscape mode and a second monitor in portrait mode. Consuming/expelling windows to get full-width windows stacked above one another on my secondary is a painstaking process, and new windows keep opening to the right rather than below.

I would suggest a per-monitor setting of the "ribbon direction" (top-bottom vs side-to-side), to be able to have a sideways layout on a landscape monitor and a vertical layout on a portrait monitor.

I have tried looking up ways to change this setting, such as changing the window opening direction (#829), but it seems to revolve around a horizontal layout.

For me, the lack of a per-monitor orientation setting is a showstopper, and I'll seriously have to reconsider my workflow. PaperWM seems to have a lot of potential for customization, but it doesn't seem to play nice with vertical monitors.

[jtaala]

Hey @nicolandu,

Sounds like i3 may suit your workflow better? PaperWM definitely isn't for everyone and their preferred workflows.

In any case, I'm starting to look at related functionality (see #725, #852). First step is functionality to "open" new windows in a vertical stack (which is not implemented atm). Once we have that, we could then add this behaviour (vertical stacking modes) to a new dynamic "openWindow" directions. Last step would be making dynamic opening direction "per monitor" (like we do with "focusModes").

It's on the books/plan to be added.

Cheers,

Jay.

[nicolandu]

I appreciate your support, and I really like PaperWM! I'll have a look at i3, but for now, horizontal mode should do the job. Would you consider appropriate to close the issue?

[jtaala]

No probs. Keep the issue open for sure - I'm currently working on having consume and expel windows from a vertical stack honour the current "open window" direction (e.g. left/right). I'm pretty much done that and will add a PR soon.

Planning on tackling the "open window in a vertical stack" mode next/soon.

[rbutera]

No probs. Keep the issue open for sure - I'm currently working on having consume and expel windows from a vertical stack honour the current "open window" direction (e.g. left/right). I'm pretty much done that and will add a PR soon.

Planning on tackling the "open window in a vertical stack" mode next/soon.

Hey I'm considering moving to PaperWM but I am struggling to understand something... If I change the direction that new windows will open in will it apply to all monitors or just the monitor currently in focus?

Many people have a mix of portrait and landscape monitors. It would be great if PaperWM could automatically determine the tiling direction by picking the longer axis of the monitor. Portrait monitors would automatically tile vertically, and landscape monitors horizontally. If you could implement that I would use paperwm and nothing else ever again

[jtaala]

Hey I'm considering moving to PaperWM but I am struggling to understand something... If I change the direction that new windows will open in will it apply to all monitors or just the monitor currently in focus?

No. I don't actually use multiple monitors in my workflow, but would happily accept a PR if someone wanted to work on this. Note, a per space or monitor persistent setting could work here as well.

Many people have a mix of portrait and landscape monitors. It would be great if PaperWM could automatically determine the tiling direction by picking the longer axis of the monitor. Portrait monitors would automatically tile vertically, and landscape monitors horizontally. If you could implement that I would use paperwm and nothing else ever again

Sounds like a useful feature / option. I wouldn't use this though, but would would happily accept a PR for this if you or others would be interested in something like this

[nicolandu]

I definitely would be interested in this feature. Would it be technically difficult to implement?

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From: jtaala @.> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2024 5:40:32 AM To: paperwm/PaperWM @.> Cc: Nicolas Landucci @.>; Mention @.> Subject: Re: [paperwm/PaperWM] Vertical layout for portrait mode (Issue #858)

Hey I'm considering moving to PaperWM but I am struggling to understand something... If I change the direction that new windows will open in will it apply to all monitors or just the monitor currently in focus?

No. I don't actually use multiple monitors in my workflow, but would happily accept a PR if someone wanted to work on this. Note, a per space or monitor persistent setting could work here as well.

Many people have a mix of portrait and landscape monitors. It would be great if PaperWM could automatically determine the tiling direction by picking the longer axis of the monitor. Portrait monitors would automatically tile vertically, and landscape monitors horizontally. If you could implement that I would use paperwm and nothing else ever again

Sounds like a useful feature / option. I wouldn't use this though, but would would happily accept a PR for this if you or others would be interested in something like this

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[jtaala]

I definitely would be interested in this feature. Would it be technically difficult to implement?

Well, either way you'd need to implement a per monitor (or per space) persistent setting for this. After that you could implement your own logic for which direction to enable under various conditions.

Technically it fits within PaperWM's current implementations (so wouldn't be massively difficult). Difficulty to implement would really depend on someone's familiarity with js, gnome extensions and paperwm.