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focus follows screen layout

asked 2013-01-18 10:16:52 +0000

anonymous user

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I like to work with four identical terminals. sometimes they result from horizontal, then vertical splitting, sometimes the other way around. this leads to (for me) unintuitive behaviour when moving focus around. for example, 'focus up' sometimes goes the up+left, or 'focus left' actually goes down+left. I think I understand the tree stuff, but I like my 'up' to just go 'up' when another container is located just above the current one. is there a way to achieve this, for example by splitting a container in 4 equal parts, so I can logically move focus around between these?

on a related note, I'd also really like to see a configuration option to disable wrapping.

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answered 2013-01-18 10:59:46 +0000

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If you always work with exactly four terminals, you could use “VIM-like marks” to first tag them, then navigate to them with fixed shortcuts, see http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#vimlikemarks

Apart from that, there is no i3 built-in to achieve what you want.

Also, I am not very keen to add more options with regards to wrapping behavior.

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