There's also the IPC interface adding scriptability to i3, which could do the trick and automatically lay out selected windows into a grid or something like that. Not automagically like with a real WM-based layout, but that's as close as you can get with i3, I guess.
On 17.09.2014 19:18, Kareem wrote: > On 2014-09-17 1100, Sean Reifschneider wrote: >> A few months ago I came back to I3 after having tried a few other things (KDE >> again, tried Awesome). > > So I guess you've heard about layout saving and restoring? > > http://i3wm.org/docs/layout-saving.html > >> However, one thing that Awesome had that I'm really missing from I3 is an >> ability to re-tile a bunch of windows. In particular, I often run "cssh" >> which opens 15 to 30 windows, and I'm manually going in and moving them left >> or right to get them into a 3 or 4 different columns. It sure would be nice >> if there was a way to say "Reflow all my windows into 4 columns, evenly". > > Lay out your windows the way you like (4 columns) manually, then save > the layout. Then next time you want to open cssh, restore the layout > just before you start cssh. Would that work for you? >
