Having a vertical split layout only for 2 (of many) windows

[rsmath]

Hello,
I have 3 windows in my kitty terminal. One at root level of a project, two within a few subfolders (I need two because I run multiple scripts at the same time).

I've been trying to use the splits layout to get the 2 subfolder windows in a vertical split, but I do not want the root folder window in the same layout. Please allow me to explain.

With the splits layout (in above screenshot), I cannot find a way to have the 2 subfolder windows in a vertical split and move the root folder window (covering the left half) to a different window. I apologize for my vague use of the word window. I wish to have two windows, navigated with Cmd+1 and Cmd+2, where the first window is the root folder terminal and the second window has the two subfolder terminals in the vertical split. Basically these two:

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I am sure this is possible. Could someone please help me get the correct kitty.conf commands to make this happen. Right now, following the docs, I have these lines in my kitty.conf relating to this:

map shift+5 launch --location=hsplit
map shift+6 launch --location=vsplit
map shift+7 layout_action rotate

map shift+up move_window up
map shift+left move_window left
map shift+right move_window right
map shift+down move_window down

map ctrl+left neighboring_window left
map ctrl+right neighboring_window right
map ctrl+up neighboring_window up
map ctrl+down neighboring_window down

enabled_layouts stack, splits:split_axis=horizontal

Thank you!

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I wish to have two windows, navigated with Cmd+1 and Cmd+2, where the first window is the root folder terminal and the second window has the two subfolder terminals in the vertical split.

I can not understand, this is obviously 3 kitty window. It is not possible to contain two kitty windows inside a virtual container (switched by cmd+2).

I cannot find a way to have the 2 subfolder windows in a vertical split
and move the root folder window (covering the left half) to a different window.

Where do you want to move this window to? You can upgrade to 0.24+ and then press the default shortcut ctrl+shift+f8 to swap the first window with the other windows. Is this the "move" you need?

[rsmath]

I can not understand, this is obviously 3 kitty window. It is not possible to contain two kitty windows inside a virtual container (switched by cmd+2).

Ah, then I suppose it's not possible what I was thinking.

You can upgrade to 0.24+ and then press the default shortcut ctrl+shift+f8 to swap the first window with the other windows. Is this the "move" you need?

No, I don't think that is it. What I want to have are two kitty windows running two different scripts simultaneously in a layout I can look at their results at the same time, and a code kitty window in a separate layout. This is so I wouldn't have to navigate to two places to see the results for two scripts and I would be able to keep the code window in the full maximum area (unlike the splits layout which only gives a small portion to the code window).

[kovidgoyal]

Use two separate OS windows or two separate tabs for that. One with our two windows and one with your root window.

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It is worth noting that in version 0.24+ you can define shortcuts to switch to the specified OS window.

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/actions/#nth-os-window

So you can put up two OS windows, and then cmd+1, cmd+2 switches between the two.

[rsmath]

Thank you for the suggestion guys. I think that would be a good way for me to implement this.

Question about os windows/tabs, how do I make a startup conf file that would open two different OS windows? I have this right now but it doesn't work.

I will make the second os window have the split layout but I first wanted to open it automatically with the startup conf.

[kovidgoyal]

Read the example at https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/overview/#startup-sessions

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I already answered your similar question on October 16, 2021.
Please refer to my previous reply, you just need to make a little modification.

[rsmath]

Got it working now. Thank you for the help guys 🙏