Tabmode is great, but when I quit tabmode, I didn't restore the original layout.

[Leiyi548]

Thank you,creat a good script.

Before:

After:

I didn't restore the original layout.

[BiagioFesta]

Thank you for your feedback.

I agree, that might be annoying.
I was already planning to put some effort on it, see if I can find a good solution for that.

A few days ago, I have tried this: https://i3wm.org/docs/layout-saving.html; but I didn't go into it. Maybe I could leverage it.

[BiagioFesta]

I am working on an experimental feature for saving and restore layouts: #7

My plan is to integrate this into the tabmode command.

[BiagioFesta]

i3-autolayout now supports command save-layout and restore-layout for store and load a workspace layout.

Moreover, tabmode has been now integrated with save/restore layout.

The default behavior of tabmode is unchanged. However, the option -f allows specifying a filename where to save and load the layout.

I would expect something like the following in the i3 config:

bindsym $mod+w exec i3-autolayout tabmode -f /tmp/i3-tabmode.save 

tabmode automatically works in "toggle" mode.

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The logic for saving and restoring a layout is a bit complex (because of the nature of i3). So I expect some minor bugs in the layout restoration, that is why I am planning to release a "beta" release (which will contain all those new features).

I would really appreciate if you can provide feedback (enhancements). Please also report bugs (I am sure there are some at this development stage), so I can try to correct them.

Please let me know if you appreciate this feature and all feedback you can provide. Thank you.

[BiagioFesta]

https://github.com/BiagioFesta/i3-autolayout/releases/tag/v0.2.3-beta

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This feature makes i3 nearly work right for me - excellent thankyou - basically all i want is each workspace in split mode to be an interactive overview that i can tab/ maximise into everything on the whole workspace in a simple clean way.

2 things i have noticed that can be improved --

1-- if on multiple workspaces, the autolayout will be restored if leave to create/ view another workspace if you leave previous in split view, however if a new workspace is created/viewed and leave the current one in tab view - when return back to the older workspace it will be stuck in tab view with no way to get back to split view.

2-- flicking in and out of tab/ split view toggle - when moving from tab view back to split the selected window does not stick - it seems to jump back to the window that was selected when first leaving split view - should always remain on the chosen window when leaving both view modes.

-- out of interest, this function is not in the original i3 is it? As i can see, the i3 node/window/leaf thing does not quite make sense to me when it comes to splitting windows in a different direction and then creating tabs from the workspace. If a workspace is not split, and all new windows are tiled in the same direction then all the windows will be tabbed together. As soon as you want to make a new window go in the other direction - as far as i can see the only way to do that is by splitting a window - then once this split is created any tab view is split up too, and gets a bit messy when trying to navigate up through tab parents and children. All i want is everything in a workspace layout to toggle in/out a simple clean single line tab view and then back again to split view, your code is the only way to get this am i correct?