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syl20bnr
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Dear i3 community,

Is it possible to switch a parent container from vertical to horizontal layout (and vice versa) ? I struggle sometimes to make a H container with 3 terminals in the bottom of the screen to be a V container and on the left or right of the screen.

Cheers, syl20bnr

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answered 2013-03-29 15:08:41 +0000

Michael
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The command you are looking for is

layout splitv

or

layout splith

for vertical/horizontal split, respectively.

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answered 2013-04-01 21:27:44 +0000

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you want to press your mod key + e to achieve what you want. what the other user told you is how to change the layout before opening a new container. $mod+e changes them on the fly.

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“the other user” named the command, which works on the fly. See the userguide, you can bind commands to keys ($mod+e is bound to layout toggle split by default) or send them interactively using i3-msg.

Michael ( 2013-04-02 11:01:46 +0000 )edit

yep, sorry I thought you meant split h and split v, but still I think it will be easier for the man to just press $mod+e to achieve what he wanted(switch between vertical and horizontal AND vice versa) with one button combo which is already binded, instead of making room for two new button combos...

ppeev ( 2013-04-02 11:08:34 +0000 )edit

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Is it possible to dynamically switch a container layout type ?

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