well the usecase for workspaces (vs tagging) is: i usually open xterms, emacs, pdfviewer, and sometimes inkscape or firefox. if i would be using tagging (as far as i understand the concept) i would have all opened pdfs in one tagspace, then terms perhaps together with emacs, but firefox somewhere else. now things get a bit dense sometimes, therefore i might decide use tab to hide one window behind/next the other and keep at least to windows in split view, e.g. left:xterm+tab(firefox), right:emacs+tab(pdf). now i need to look up an algorithm written in the pdf so i tab on the right to the pdfviewer and check out some codes with xterm. see what i mean? i things run dynamically, under control, because things have to be rearranged on the fly and not all too automatically. the auto placement of the windows in a workspace, e.g. vertical split, maximised, tiled, etc. is what i need, but i want to be able to open another (n-th) workspace, fire some xterms and try sth, and then go to workspace n-1-th to continue browsing.
i have not tried understanding the wmii-x codes as i dont know much about the plan-9 thingy, but would consider the dwm code (one file, one place, one smile :O)). but is that a difficult thing to deal with? no documentation? k On Mon, June 22, 2009 6:34 pm, Preben Randhol wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:22:47 +0100 (BST) > "Kevin Nagel" <auye...@ebi.ac.uk> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I am a wmii-2.5 user and like the tabbing concept much more than >> the >> stacking concept in wmii-3. However, I've considered using dwm, >> but >> would like to have these features there as well. Also the dynamic >> control of creating/deleting workspaces and not using tagging. Is >> this possible and how difficult is it to change/implement it? I >> know >> a little bit C, but do I also need to dig in Xlib? > > What do you mean by workspaces? > > Try dwm and get used to how it works. You'll see the light ;-) It is > far > better than wmii-X IMHO. > > Preben > -- Looking forward to hearing from you. Kind regards, Kevin --- Kevin Nagel PhD Student EMBL Outstation - Hinxton European Bioinformatics Institute Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton Cambridge, CB10 1SD United Kingdom
