After some searching, I was able to find an existing solution that already does this: https://github.com/RobSis/treesome/
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Alexander Tsepkov <atsep...@gmail.com>wrote: > I'm a big fan of awesome's tiling layout for programming (it's very easy > to pull up a browser or a shell in a new terminal to test certain > functionality). However, when awesome spawns a new window, it doesn't care > about the current window position, only the layout being used. > > How hard would it be to create a new layout that works more similar to > tmux, with horizontal and vertical splits? For example, if I spawn a new > application in a clean workspace, it will open in full screen, if I tell > awesome to split it vertically (via mod4+|), it will open a copy of the > same application on the right and change focus to it (resizing both to take > half of the space taken up by the original). Likewise, I could then tile > the window as needed in similar fashion. Most of the time, I only need this > to open more terminals, so I'm fine with awesome assuming the new window > needs to be a terminal, if it would be hard to figure out currently-focused > application. >
