i3altlayout 1.1

i3wm efficient real estate

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I3ALTLAYOUT

i3altlayout helps you handle more efficiently your screen real estate in i3wm <https://i3wm.org/>__ 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

Install the script from pypi <https://pypi.org/project/i3altlayout/>__

.. code:: bash

$ sudo pip3 install i3altlayout

Offline installation

Either install the dependencies and copy the i3altlayout.py file </i3altlayout/i3altlayout.py>__:

• i3ipc (python3-i3ipc on debian/fedora)
• docopt (python3-docopt on debian/fedora)

Or package the pypi package:

.. code:: bash

on online host

$ mkdir -p /tmp/i3altlayout && pip3 download -d /tmp/i3altlayout i3altlayout

move the /tmp/i3altlayout directory to the offline host

on offline host

$ sudo pip3 install --no-index --find-links=/tmp/i3altlayout i3altlayout

Usage

Start the script directly with i3 <https://i3wm.org/>__ by adding it to your config file (usually under ~/.config/i3/config):

::

exec --no-startup-id "i3altlayout"

Or test it by running it from the command line (i3altlayout) and open a few windows.

Related projects

This project is similar to i3-alternating-layout <https://github.com/olemartinorg/i3-alternating-layout>__ but uses the i3ipc library <https://github.com/acrisci/i3ipc-python>__ instead of the unmaintained i3-py library <https://github.com/ziberna/i3-py>__.

Contribution

If you are having trouble installing or using i3altlayout, open an issue.

If you want to contribute, feel free to do a PR (please follow PEP8).

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the GPLv3 license.

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