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0 pointsBeetleB5mo ago0 comments

> This is opposed to a traditional tiling WM where you'd either need to open the app in another workspace, use some stacking feature or worst of all shove the new window into the current view by resizing some other window(s) which is often not ideal.

I use Awesome Window Manager and one feature I like about it is this:

Say I've got my terminal in workspace 1, Firefox in workspace 2, and Emacs in workspace 3. There are often times I need to use either the terminal or Emacs (or both) while viewing a website. So with a keystroke, I can tell it to combine any two or three workspaces and all the windows are shown tiled together. In a sense, it creates a new temporary workspace with all 3 windows. As soon as I leave this workspace, it restores it to the original configuration. No need to move windows from one workspace to another and remember to move them back.

This is the one feature that I'm really missing from Mac OS.

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SoftTalker5mo ago

I know how to send a window to another workspace but not how to combine two entire workspaces. Is that a default keystroke or something you set up?

BeetleBOP5mo ago

https://awesomewm.org/doc/manpages/awesome.1.html

     Mod4 + Control + 1-9
        Toggle tag view.

It's a bit arcane written that way, but each workspace is a tag. Pressing Mod4 + Control + 2 means to show workspace 2. The effect is cumulative. If you now press Mod4 + Control + 3, it will be showing both workspace 2 and 3 simultaneously (and tiling the combined set of windows).

If you press Mod4 + Control + 3 again, it will remove workspace 3 from view.

If you now just leave to go to some workspace, (e.g. Mod4 + 5), it will only show workspace 5.

Can't live without it.

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