Re: Re: how to use groups?

Shawn Betts <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.ratpoison.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> I would like to keep the frame I started my terminal from, then add
> frames on top of it running eg. a GUI-browser, then split and resize
> them in order to see frames underneath.
>
> An alternative would be to make new frames and switch between them, but
> when I split some of them, other frames are not affected.  This was my
> initial disappointment:  I have urxvt-unicode running tmux (the screen
> successor).  From one of tmux ptys I start firefox, which launches a new
> window.  I can switch between the terminals and firefox eg. using
> "focus" or "next", and both cover the entire screen.  But when I want to
> make one of the windows smaller by splitting it first, both windows are
> affected, and I'd like to resize only one of them.

Perhaps you're looking for workspaces? You might be interesting in
rpws that's available in the contrib/ dir in the source tarball.

-Shawn
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