Yes, in i3, sway, and hyprland with hy3.
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Sorry to be a bother, but... how do I tell hyprland I want a window to be added to a specific group?
I was thinking of something like:
windowrulev2 = tag texteditor, class:(myfirsteditor)
windowrulev2 = tag texteditor, class:(mysecondeditor)
windowrulev2 = group XXX, tag:texteditor
but I can't find what I should write instead of group XXX to tell hyprland/hy3 that I want the window to be added to a group on the left-side of workspace 1...
I would also be fine with some rule that could be added to exec or probably even some dispatcher, but I can't find anything that allows to target (or define) a specific group.
Am I pursuing this from the wrong direction?
You can use any modular tiling manager for this. Only the tiling layout generator (this one is for river) matters here.
TBH I really liked the idea behind river, but does it have tabs? Also... I would need to write my own custom layout, wouldn't I?
BTW: are there other WMs that are modular like river?
There's newm, which looks really cool, but unfortunately, it is not being maintained any more - I think future version of GNOME will be going in that direction soon, if you're interested in that style of hybrid single workspace, scrollable window/desktop management. Then there's also labwc, herbsluftwm, qtile, etc. If you don't mind X11, you'll have lots of options to choose from. Personally, I've moved to XFCE4 because it is very light-weight, and I'm waiting for version 4.20, which will move to Wayland completely, and make use of wlroots.
Reading https://codeberg.org/river/river/src/branch/master/protocol/river-layout-v3.xml it seems to me that what I want to do is actually not possible in river, even writing a custom layout manager...
IIUC the protocol works like this: river asks "how should I layout N windows in HxW screen?" and the layout replies "window1: H1xW1 at offset X1,Y1; window2: H2xW2 ...", so there is no way for the layout manager to identify specific windows and, in my use case, put all the text editors on the left side of the screen etc.
Did you have some other approach in mind when you suggested river? (I may very well be over-complicating things and not seeing a more straightforward solution)
Sorry I derailed from the topic, but afaik, you can use either generators like rivertiler (herbsluft-inspired) or rivercarro (default generator) for riverwm. In fact, rivertiler also provides you with the necessary libraries to create your own layout generator. Maybe you're looking for riverwm-spiral-extended?