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

[Mikael Jansson]

On 05/14/2011 04:31 AM, Mehul Sanghvi wrote:
> 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.
>

It would require changes more or less everywhere.

I sent out the idea to get feedback on whether the design is sound or not.

-- Mikael