autopage

Description

The autopage patch for dwm adds configurable per-layout client page capacity with automatic "paging" to overflow clients to the next tag. Rule-assigned and manually moved clients are protected from autopaging while empty slots are filled by eligible autopaged clients from the neighboring tag.

The behavior of autopage can be configured in config.def.h `

static const Layout layouts[] = { 

/* symbol     arrange 	page capacity  follow*/
{ "[T]=",     tile,			0,			0 },    /* unlimited clients per tag */
{ "[A]=",     tile,			3,			0 },    /* 3 clients allowed per tag */
{ "[AF]=",    tile,			4,			1 },    /* 4 clients allowed per tag and follow autopagedclients */
{ "[F]",      NULL,			0,			0 },    /* no layout function means floating behavior */
{ "[M]",      monocle,		0,			0 },	/* unlimited clients per tag */

};

` The example only shows customization of the tiled layout, but the autopager is not layout dependent. It can work on just about any layout except for "floating" because I wrote it so that floating windows are not autopage candidates.

As clients are closed, autopaged clients are pulled from subsequent tags to fill empty slots left by the closed clients. Rule-assigned and manually moved clients are still protected and will not change position.

Behavior

capacity = 3 Tag 1: C1 C2 C3 Tag 2: C4 C5 C6 Tag 3: C7 C8 C9 Tag 4: C10 C11 C12

(close client 4)

Tag 1: C1 C2 C3 Tag 2: C5 C6 C7 Tag 3: C8 C9 C10 Tag 4: C11 C12

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