Did you watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWA8Pl57UBY yet? Typically people don’t have questions afterwards :).
On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 5:46 AM, Eric Abrahamsen <e...@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote: > Eric Abrahamsen <e...@ericabrahamsen.net> writes: > >> I moved from StumpWM to i3 a bit ago, and everything's basically fine, >> ie is a lot faster :) >> >> One usage issue I'm having trouble with: >> >> 90% of the time I'm use the tabbed view, no splits, each window taking >> up the full screen. Occasionally, though, I want to see windows >> side-by-side. In StumpWM I could create and delete splits almost >> unconsciously, and I'm not quite getting there with i3. >> >> Mostly because I don't really understand how splits are removed. I often >> create them accidentally by hitting mod-h when I meant to hit mod-j. As >> far as I can tell, to get rid of that I have to move the window I'm in >> down with mod-shift-k, then back up with mod-shift-l, and that removes >> the split. >> >> But I just intentionally created a split so that I could see two of my >> three Emacs windows side-by-side. When I was done with that, I moved >> window three back into the same split as the other two (so now all three >> are tabbed in one split), but can't get rid of the split itself. Now >> I've got this: >> >> i3: T[emacs emacs emacs] >> >> And below that three tabbed windows. How do I get rid of that top split? > > On a whim I selected the parent, and hit mod-e. That removed the split, > but I have *no* idea why. I suspect it's the "Implicit containers" > section of the user guide that I'm not grokking. But I'm really not > grokking it... > >> I'm sure this is something very simple and obvious, but I've been poking >> at it for a while, and can't figure it out... >> >> Thanks, >> Eric > -- Best regards, Michael
