Ok so here's the patch I found useful, on the off chance anyone else cares for it.
It's really a patch to the COLUMNS patch, to allow it to work with master width % and resizings. So for example I can set my master width to be 75% of screen, have # master windows = 2, and then that 75% will be divided into 2 sections. The remaining 25% will be stack. Effectively it's just like the standard tiling mode, except that master windows are vertical, not horizontal. The columns patch was my starting point; I tweaked it into doing what I needed, rather than rewrite the whole layout. So I can't speak to why it's written as it is, only my mods to it. Perhaps I should have posted a diff to its diff instead? -n
dwm-6.0-column_master.diff
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