Can I do this in hyprland? In sway? In any other WM? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 days ago by gomp@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I want to have my screen (the "dev" workspace) split in three "zones":

on the left side, a tabbed group with all the text editors I start (ie. if I start a new one, it goes there in a new tab)
on the top-right, a tabbed group of whatever many terminal I feel like launching
on the bottom-right, my browsers (and possibly other stuff), in a group without tabs
a key combination to cycle between: all three "zones" visible, text editors on the left - terminal on the right, text editors on the left - browser on the right, fullscreen browser

So far I've been looking at hyprland (for no particular reason except the hype) and I don't think I can do the above with it (I am by no means an expert, so... maybe it can actually be done?).

Do you know of any WM where it would be possible? (possibly, one with automatic splitting a-la bspwm, that I would use for the other workspaces)

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[-] gomp@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

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?

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