Hello. I'm new to this list. Recently I've gotten interested in tiling window managers, and I studied the excellent reviews of more than 30 at the Crunchbang Wiki [http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=18273] and elsewhere, and I've tried out i3, awesome, and xmonad, and I think i3 is the one for me. I've watched all the videos on i3 available at YouTbue (including the one on tree structure and containers), and studied the User Guide, but I'm a very literal-minded mathematician and I'm still having problems with understanding and using the concept of containers. I have three questions (in order of abstractness).
(1) I'm sitting in front of an i3-screen with a focused window. I want to know (preferably in a semi-algorithmic statement), if I press Mod + s, exactly which windows will be stacked. In particular, does the answer depend on the history of the focused window? (2) If I press mod+v and make some windows, are they all in the same container? If I now press mod+h and make some more windows, are they in a different container? (3) I just don't grasp the concept of a container in i3. It seems to me that the basic objects are windows, and that "container" is a derived, relational notion, namely: two windows may (or may not) be in the same container. [So, mathematically, I think of a container as an equivalence class of windows; but I don't know what the equivalence relation is.] Thank you for your patience. http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=18273
