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I love tilling window managers,it split my display in halves.
I love tmux, it splits my terminal in halves
and I love vim, it splits my workspace in halves

The cursed

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|       |  vim split: main                |                                   |
|       |                                 |                                   |
| split |                                 |                                   |
|       |                                 |                                   |
| files |   > My lovely code              |                                   |
| tags  |                                 |                                   |
| lists |   int super_safe(char* str)     |                                   |
|       |   {                             |                                   |
|       |       gets(str);                |                                   |
|       |   }                             |        Browser                    |
|       |                                 |                                   |
|       |2                                | 5                                 |
|       +---------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
|       |                                 |                                   |
|       |                                 |                                   |
|       |  vim split: quick fix list      |        Anime girls                |
|       |                                 |                                   |
|1      |3                                |                                   |
+-------+---------------------------------+                                   |
|         Terminal Split : shell prompt   |                                   |
|                                         |                                   |
|4                                        | 6                                 |
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Now my biggest headache is how to navigate through the panes! The problem is that each level (wm/tmux/editor) has its own modifier key (and keybindings). Currently I use Mod (win) key for window manager, Alt (or prefix Alt-W) for tmux and Ctrl (or prefix Ctrl-W) for vim. That is, to switch from 5 to 2 I need:

(PRESS Mod-H)
(IF in 4) (PRESS Alt-K) (ENDIF)
(IF in 1) (PRESS Ctr-L) (ENDIF)
(IF in 3) (PRESS Ctr-W) (ENDIF)

You constantly need to eyeball the cursor and DO A MAPPING IN YOUR HEAD: which fucking container am I in?

To make things even worse, each container has its own “workspaces”:

WM has workspaces
Tmux has sessions and windows
Vim has tabs and buffers

◈ A real-world example of the …

real-world

Hey, why do you use tmux when you have WM?

Well, when I work locally I avoid using tmux. But when I’m working on a server (I often do!), I have to use tmux because I don’t want to start multiple ssh sessions, and most importantly the workspaces SHOULD NOT be attached to a ssh session because if the network break or I accidentally kill the terminal the remote programs will be killed and the works will be lost.

Remedy…? just a wild idea.

Maybe we can have a plugin for.. say wlroots, to also identify tmux panes and vim splits and put them in WM’s window tree, so that we can navigate with only one set of keybindings..