Re: [STUMP] Flipping heads in group to groups in head!

[Mehul Sanghvi]

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 07:37, Mikael Jansson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Heya,
>
> I want to keep a group visible on one of my monitor at all times and just
> change the group of my main screen. Typically the always-visible-group is
> for IRC, documentation and similar.
>
> The way StumpWM works right now is to keep all heads and associated frames
> per group.  What I suggest is to flip it around, such that each head has a
> list of groups, independent of each other.
>
> Say you have a 3-head setup with the groups
>
>  h1:h1g1 h2:h2g1 h3:h3g1
>
> where hNgM is head N's group M. Initially, groups couldn't be moved between
> heads, although that would probably be easy to add support for.
>
> So: When any frame on h1 has focus and you do 'gselect 3', the new layout
> will be
>
>  h1:h1g3 h2:h2g1 h3:h3g1
>
> This is a super-set of the current behaviour, which could be emulated by
> gluing heads together so gselect would change groups on all heads glued
> together with the current.  Say you have h2 and h3 glued together and then
> issue gselect 4.  You'll get
>
>  h1:h1g3  h2:h2g4  h3:h3g4
>
> with h1's group still at 3 after the previous command.
>
> Comments?
>


What would be needed to get this support into StumpWM ?
As far as I understand it its not possible to get it done in stumpwm.


cheers,

      mehul
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Mehul N. Sanghvi
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