callb4ck / go-i3altlayout

A port of i3altlayout in Go

Deprecation warning

This program is no longer maintained and it's also bugged

go-i3altlayout

A port of i3altlayout in Go using i3ipc-go.

It should be entirely compatible with the original, just use the install script (remember to have go installed).

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What does it do?

i3altlayout helps you handle more efficiently your screen real estate in i3wm by auto-splitting windows on their longest side.

If you open 4 windows, your workspace would look

             like this                               instead of this

+-----------------------------------+        +---------------------------------+
| +--------------+ +--------------+ |        | +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ |
| |              | |              | |        | |     | |     | |     | |     | |
| |              | |      2       | |        | |     | |     | |     | |     | |
| |              | |              | |        | |     | |     | |     | |     | |
| |      1       | +--------------+ |        | |  1  | |  2  | |  3  | |  4  | |
| |              | +--------------+ |        | |     | |     | |     | |     | |
| |              | |      ||      | |        | |     | |     | |     | |     | |
| |              | |   3  ||  4   | |        | |     | |     | |     | |     | |
| +--------------+ +--------------+ |        | +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ |
+-----------------------------------+        +---------------------------------+

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Installation

User the install.sh script

$ ./install.sh

if you only wish to build it without installing it, use the build.sh

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Usage

Start i3altlayout directly with i3 by adding it to your config file (usually under ~/.config/i3/config):

exec --no-startup-id "killall i3altlayout"
exec --no-startup-id "i3altlayout"

(don't forget to add the killall, if you don't do it you will keep spawning a new process on each restart of i3)