[hlwm] split feature-request

[tylo hart]

Hello,

If I understand 'up' and 'left' correctly, these pieces of shell script
should accomplish what you want:

# Split UP
herbstclient split v 0.5
while herbstclient shift d; do
    herbstclient focus u
done

#Split LEFT
herbstclient split h 0.5
while herbstclient shift r; do
    herbstclient focus l
done

Sorry for any typos, Im in a bit of a hurry.

Cheers,
tylo



On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Thorsten Wißmann
<edu at thorsten-wissmann.de>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 05:13:35PM +0100, Thorsten Wißmann wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 09:52:28PM +0100, Flexo Rodriguez wrote:
> > > i having a feature request after i took a look on bspwm.
> > >
> > > in bspwm you can not just split the tree to the right and bottom but
> split a
> > > window to left and top. i think it would be a great improvement while
> handling
> > > frames in hlwm. so if it is possible without that much struggling i
> will be even
> > > more happy.
> >
> > I just tried bspwm but still I'm not sure what you try to describe. So
> > when doing "herbstclient split vertical 0.5" an empty frame is created
> > "below" of the focused frame. Is your request that the new empty space
> > should appear above of the selected frame? (And analogous on the left?)
> >
> > If yes that should be implemented quite easily.
>
> I think it's very useful, so there are new split modes: top, left in
> addition to the old ones: vertical (alias: bottom) and horizontal
> (alias: right). The names indicate the (relative) location of the fresh
> and empty frame which is created.
>
> It seems quite often, that immediately after splitting, the fresh frame
> is focused by the user. So it might be an option to focus the fresh
> frame automatically after the split. Opinions?
>
> If you're interested in trying it, I had the following in my old musca
> config and really enjoyed it:
>
> herbstclient keybind Mod1-Mod4-h chain , split left   0.5 , focus left
> herbstclient keybind Mod1-Mod4-j chain , split bottom 0.5 , focus down
> herbstclient keybind Mod1-Mod4-k chain , split top    0.5 , focus up
> herbstclient keybind Mod1-Mod4-l chain , split right  0.5 , focus right
> herbstclient keybind Mod1-Mod4-r remove
>
> And maybe top/bottom should be renamed to up/down...
>
>
> Thorsten
>
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