Is there a tiling WM that allows to place a common background window for all workspaces persisting the ability to use tiling algorithms?
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Recently, I came across the idea of placing a window with currently
playing video behind transparent terminal, like this . At the
moment, I am using
dwm
, and I can implement a simple case of this idea
with one video and one transparent terminal using monocle layout
(placing a window with video behind a terminal), but I want to implement
more complicated things:
1. to make one background window with video that will be common for all
tags/workspaces - so it will be possible to switch tags/workspaces while
persisting background video;
2. to have an opportunity to use tiling layout algorithm above the
window with video.
There is a sticky patch for dwm that allows to have a common window
for all tags, but I didn't find the way how to persist background
monocle client on other tags with tiling layout (frankly, I doubt that
this is possible in dwm).
I think that this would be possible if there were some kind of
containers that can store different layouts on different layers
(sub-layouts?), so, for example, I could create container with "deck"
layout, place video in bottom element and activate "tiling" layout in
upper element, but even in that case I don't know how to persist video
between different workspaces...
Is there any way to do such things in dwm or any other tiling wm?
Asked by Aleksandr Fedchenko
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May 5, 2019, 09:33 AM
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