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Tabs
Since: next release
You can switch a column to display windows as tabs, rather than as vertical tiles. All tabs in a column have the same window size, so this is useful to get more vertical space.
Use this bind to toggle a column between normal and tabbed display:
binds {
Mod+W { toggle-column-tabbed-display; }
}
All other binds remain the same: switch tabs with focus-window-down/up
, add or remove windows with consume-window-into-column
/expel-window-from-column
, and so on.
Unlike regular columns, tabbed columns can go full-screen with multiple windows.
Tabbed columns show a tab indicator on the side. You can click on the indicator to switch tabs.
See the tab-indicator
section in the layout options to configure it.
By default, the indicator draws "outside" the column, so it can overlay other windows or go off-screen.
The place-within-column
flag puts the indicator "inside" the column, adjusting the window size to make space for it.
This is especially useful for thicker tab indicators, or when you have very small gaps.
Default | place-within-column |
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