How do I start a new program tabbed or stacked?

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If I want to open a new program directly as tabbed/stacked, I first need to split the current container, open the new program and then convert the container to tabbed/stacked. Is there a more direct way?

answered Jun 27 '12

Klaas

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updated Jun 27 '12

I did find the answer myself, but others might benefit:

There is no need to open the program before converting the container to tabbed/stacked. That is:

Split the window in a direction
Convert it to tabbed/stacked (does not result in any visual change)
Launch the new program, it will launch in a tab/stacked

One can probably use i3-msg to create a short program that makes it a single commmand, instead of two.

A design question related to that would be: Why is there a difference between a "splitting layout" and "layout"?

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As to your last question: We consider removing that difference:https://github.com/i3/i3/issues/464

Michael (Jun 28 '12)edit

Nice, I think that would make the concept of layouts cleaner and would very much welcome the change. Thanks for the link to the bug report. I think making it 4 container layout modes, like you proposed, would be best.

Klaas (Jun 28 '12)edit

Am I understanding correctly: in 4.2 there currently is no way to assign specific layouts to specific workspaces?

lkraav (Jul 2 '12)edit

Yes, but that is actually unrelated to this discussion imho, which is about the difference between layout and splitting directions.

Klaas (Jul 2 '12)edit

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