On Mon, 25 May 2009 01:41:10 +0400
Michael <mi...@netspark.org> wrote:

> sta...@cs.tu-berlin.de wrote:
> > * Michael <mi...@netspark.org> [2009-05-24 21:55]:
> > > Although concept of one page per instance isn't very useful for
> > > me right now. I use dwm, and I want web page be full screen, but
> > > if I'm not in monocle mode, pages get shrunk in a half if there
> > > is more than one page, which is bad, and monocle mode isn't
> > > useful because I want my terminal windows be tiled.
> > 
> > With tabs you can view only one rendered document at a time. If you
> > have multiple instances (e.g. with uzbl), you can send the inactive
> > ones to some other (dedicated or whatever) tag. 
> > 
> > Then, to get some inactive to active is pretty much the same amount
> > of keystrokes like you would need with tabs, isn't it?
> > 
> 
> Well, suppose I have 5 page in 'oldweb' tag and 1 page in 'web' tag,
> to bring up page which I want, I need:
>  * switch to oldweb
>  * _visually_ found page
>  * tag it to web
>  * switch to web again
>  * tag unneeded page to oldweb
> 
> Maybe I miss simple way of uzbl handling, but that's what I came up.
> It's painful. Although I happy with tagging concept and use it
> successfully for terminals and other things, but web don't work well
> with me in such way.
> 
> If uzbl could handle Vim-like buffers it could be a little bit
> shorter:
>  * :ls
>  * find page by URL
>  * :<number> (for example)
> 
> Third way is to make first way automatic: make a collection of windows
> for certain tags, select one through dmenu, oldweb-tag current, and
> web-tag selected.  But dwm have to be told somehow to send list of
> oldweb-tagged windows, to tag and untag certain windows. (And I really
> don't want to throw away dwm, although I think wmii has such
> functionality).
> 

http://github.com/Dieterbe/uzbl/blob/experimental/docs/multiple-instances-management

Dieter

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