Dominik Bruhn wrote:
Hy, is there any chance we might get real tabbing support in xmonad?
Ill try to explain what I mean by that: I often use the "Tall" Layout. It would be nice If I could take any frame and apply a tabbed layout on it so that I can open several windows within that frame and get some tabs. Currently I cant get this behaviour because I have to select the frames where I want tabbing uppon compiletime and there is no keybinding for switching the tabs.
So what I'm searching for is:
1. A Keystroke which makes the current frame tabbed 2. A possibility to shift a window into a frame (so it gets another tab) and out again. 3. The current Keybindings like Mod+{j,k} stay the same, they dont switch tabs. 4. New Keybindings for moving to the next tab in the current frame.
Is it possible at all? I'm not into the xmonad sourcecode but perhaps the stack-set datastructure is not the right choice for this features. Perhaps some developers can tell about this.
This is the only feature which im missing and which could make me go to ion3 because everytime I see a ion3 I love this feature.
So, lets discuss!
I suspect I'm not alone in pondering this one off and on. It's a common request. There are some questions of the interface, whether mod+j/k switch panes or tabs, but there are sensible defaults and room for customization. Build a TabbedTall layout specifically would likely be a little tricky, but perfectly possible. The bigger question is whether it would be possible to implement this as a LayoutModifier that could be strapped atop any (well, most) other layouts. I suppose it could keep a list of lists of windows, and give the underlying layout a list of "windows" which were actually the tabbed panes. My money is on possible, but it's nontrivial. I won't volunteer; I don't have the time to continue with my current xmonad-mangling project, ScreenWorkspaces. Taking 5 courses in one's major in one term is not recommended. Braden Shepherdson shepheb