Named Tags

[zenoli]

Hi,
This project looks very promising as I am a long term Awesome WM user and I am looking for a tag-based wayland compositor that does not compromise on looks.

I have not tried mango yet, but from studying the wiki, I fear that it will not be possible to achieve the same UX as I had on Awesome WM:

Is it possible to define custom "named tags" in addition to the default tags "1-9"?

Here is how I used to use tags on Awesome WM:

For every major application I had a dedicated named tag:

• tag "browser" for my browser
• tag "terminal" for my tmux session
• etc.

I then defined mnemonic keybindigs for my named tags:

• "super-b" --> view tag "browser"
• "super-shift-b" --> toggle tag "browser"
• "super-enter" --> view tag "terminal"
• "super-shift-enter" --> toggle tag "terminal
• etc.

So everytime I want to view my browser I press "super-b".
Everytime I want to view my browser in addition to the currently displayed windows, I press "super-shift-b" etc.

By only having a fixed number of tags (1-9) I would quicky run out of tags this way.
Would it be possible to achieve something similar in mangowc as well?

The closest thing I could find was "named scratchpads" but if I understand them correctly those would always be floating windows?

[DreamMaoMao]

You just need to replace 1 to 9 with any names you want on the waybar, and then switch to the names you want on the keys

[zenoli]

But is it possible to have more than 9 tags?

[DreamMaoMao]

Not supported yet

[zenoli]

Alright, thanks for the quick response.

Does that imply it will be supported in the future?

Keep up the good work :-)

[jweisber]

It would be nice to have named tags built into mangowc itself, so that other bar options like DankMaterialShell can display them. DMS can show workspace names in its bar when the compositor supplies them. But afaik the waybar workaround of mapping tag numbers to names isn't available in DMS.

[andycandy-dev]

I was thinking of named tags but from a different workflow.
I'm working on multiple projects and would like to dynamically create tags and assign windows to those.
Most of the time it's a browser, an editor frame and a terminal per each project.
I wish I was able to get a list of those named tags, create/delete them on demand.
I would have used something like a dmenu to select a tag by name.

[gitOlf]

How about:

• named tags
• additional shared tags; singletons for all monitors (optional) > yes I know we are moving away from dwl concepts.
• But through the lua configuration it is possible to have "single instance" tags. I like both options.

[keslerm]

Just having more than 9 tags would definitely be helpful for me. I only have 1 ultra wide monitor so I lose the ability to do per-monitor tags

[gplusplus314]

I didn't want to make a giant PR with more than one feature (I skipped true "named" tags), but I did implement a configurable number of tags in #739 . If you have time to help test it, I'd appreciate it. I could work on named tags next, but it may require further discussion with the maintainer as there are a few ways to go about it.

[zenoli]

Your PR enables up to 32 tags, right?

This would already unblock a lot of the reasons for to switch to mango. If course named tags would be the cherry in top :-)

[gplusplus314]

It does enable up to 32 tags. Adding the ability to name them shouldn't be too hard, but I don't want to work on that until the configurable tag_count (or equivalent) is merged.