Workspace monitor wrapping

[markg85]

Hi,

Disclaimer here, my understanding of how workspaces work is fairly limited. The documentation isn't helping me out much.

My aim here is to have workspace 1 to be all my monitors or (or bonus: a selection of the monitors).
So say you have 2 monitors connected (call them A and B) and say you have 2 workspaces configured. Then the workspaces map like this:
Workspace 1 -> monitor A
Workspace 2 -> monitor B

Configuration dependent, i'm trying to keep the examples minimal to have this as clear as possible.

Now say you add an option:
workspace_wrapping=A,B
or
workspace_wrapping=*

What I'm telling here is that a workspace "wraps" the monitors A and B. Or * where it would wrap all available monitors.
Now workspace 1 would be identified by number 1 on all the monitors it wraps.
Same for workspace 2.

For me this would fix a usecase issue i have with workspaces in wayland with waybar. I just can't get used to having say workspace 1 assigned to monitor A and workspace 2 assigned to monitor B. I have both monitors always open/on and when i switch to workspace 2 i expect the other monitor to also switch to it's next workspace.

I also think that adding this option to Hyprland means no changes are required in Waybar for this to function.
What do you think?
Would a patch for this be acceptable?

It might also be possible to solve this in Waybar or as a plugin (like this) but that's much more involved then adding a configuration flag.

[fufexan]

If I understand you correctly, you want a distinct workspace on each monitor to have the same number, so when switching to workspace 1, all monitors switch to their own "workspace 1" (with different windows open). Sounds like how GNOME does it.

It might be possible to script this or make a plugin.

[markg85]

Yes, you understand me correctly.

In fact, i already pointed you in my initial post to a plugin that does what i'm asking. Though it takes a detour and calls it virtual desktops. While it works, using that requires more config changes. Plus it requires the plugin to begin with which i also try to limit to as few as possible.

Therefore i'm asking for an option in hyprland to effectively get the same behavior but with minimal config changes.

[ItsOhen]

workspacerule = r[1-9], mon: <monitor A>
workspacerule = r[11-19], mon: <monitor B>
bind = <mod>,1,workspace, 1
bind = <mod>,1,workspace, 11
bind = <mod>,2,workspace, 2
bind = <mod>,2,workspace, 12

etc...
or if you want something completely silly:

$active = $(hyprctl activeworkspace -j | jq .monitorID)
$refocus = hyprctl dispatch focusmonitor $cur
$loop = for id in $(hyprctl monitors -j | jq -r '.[].id'); do hyprctl dispatch focusmonitor $id; hyprctl dispatch workspace r~$ws; done
bind = super alt, 1, exec, ws=1; cur=$active; $loop; $refocus
bind = super alt, 2, exec, ws=2; cur=$active; $loop; $refocus
bind = super alt, 3, exec, ws=3; cur=$active; $loop; $refocus

[markg85]

Well that's not the answer i was hoping for, it feels hackish, it's workable. I like the "completely silly" version though as it becomes agnostic to the number of monitors :)