It looks like I could somewhat emulate this behavior by creating sets of
multiple groups with a screen apiece, and setting the keybindings to switch
between sets of groups instead of single groups. But this wouldn't play
well when only a single screen is active, since only one group can be on
that screen.
It looks like I could somewhat emulate this behavior by creating sets of
multiple groups with a screen apiece, and setting the keybindings to switch
between sets of groups instead of single groups. But this wouldn't play
well when only a single screen is active, since only one group can be on
that screen.
On Monday, November 22, 2021 at 5:28:37 PM UTC-5 Tom Hunt wrote:
> I've just recently started using qtile, and quite enjoy it. However, the
> handling of groups in qtile is fairly different from most other WMs, and
> hinders my productivity.
>
> Rather than the default arrangement where one group is always on one
> screen, I'm looking for a system more like stumpwm or MATE, in which a
> group controls all screens while it's active. Ideally, a group's windows
> could be arranged across active screens as desired while remaining in the
> same group, and when external displays are detached all those windows would
> still appear in the single remaining screen.
>
> It looks like I could somewhat emulate this behavior by creating sets of
> multiple groups with a screen apiece, and setting the keybindings to switch
> between sets of groups instead of single groups. But this wouldn't play
> well when only a single screen is active, since only one group can be on
> that screen.
>
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. So breaking it down you'd need two things:
1. A way to designate a group as apart of a "set"
2. A way to simultaneously groups on multiple screens
For the first, you could just have that kind of grouping hardcoded into a
dictionary. Something like `sets = {'set1': ['groupa', 'groupb'], 'set2':
['groupc', 'groupd']}`. The order of the groups list could serve as an
implicit way to ensure that each group stays with it's respective screen.
For the second, you could just create a lazy function that takes the setkey
(ie. 'set1', or 'set2') as an argument and then switches all the groups to
their specific screen.
>
> Is there any easy way to approach this?
>
You'd have to do some custom Python scripting to get something like that.
Whether or not it's "easy" is mostly up to how familiar you are with
Python. I would probably find the task pretty straight forward, but I'm
also quite familiar with Python and also working with Qtile.
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