On Fri, 24 May 2013 10:15:42 -0300
Fábio Bertinatto <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,

Hello.

> I'm using i3 for 6 months now and I love it. I even made a donation some
> time ago.
> 
> However, there is a issue bothering me and I would like to know if there is
> a solution.
> 
> Let's say I open 3 terminal windows:
> 
> 1) "Alt + Enter" opens the first;
> 2) "Alt + Enter" opens the second horizontally (default);
> 3) "Alt + v" and then "Alt + Enter" opens the third vertically;
> 
> So until now I have the screen split in 2 columns: in the first column I
> have 1 window and in the second column I have 2 windows (1 above the other).
> 
> So let's say I select the second opened window and close it. If I switch to
> tabbed mode, the third window is placed below/inside another window called
> T[urxvt].

It doesn't happen for me. Maybe it's a question of i3 version,
or maybe I don't understand what to do to reproduce this behaviour.

> I know this occurs because of the containers thing, but I would like to
> know if I can have the tabbed mode of without that T[urxvt] window. When I
> open and close several windows and change the layout several times, a lot
> of these additional windows are opened.
> 
> There is a way to solve this?

Whenever you want to get rid of a split container, you can just move
all of its children out of it. When the last child leaves a container,
the container is destroyed, e.g.:

H[win1 T[win3]] # win3 focussed
move left
H[win1 win3 T[]] # intermediate step; a result of moving win3
H[win1 win3] # the T container get destroyed because it is empty.

This is how I understand it. I hope I was helpful.
If not, feel free to ask for more explanations. 

Best regards.

-- 
Mateusz Poszwa

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