Add "Master Stack Layout"

[notmentaloutlaw]

Window managers such as dwl, dwm and hyprland have a layout called the master stack layout. It makes it so that half of the screen (vertically split) will always have one application. This will be your master window. The other applications would share split space on the other half of the screen. You can then move around the windows and switch around which windows you want to have master. This is great for workflows as you can always have an application focused but also see your other open windows without having to manually adjust the layout with the default i3 style. The master stack layout will make this setup automatically and you don't need to do anything further.

[ErikReider]

Have you used the autotiling script? Does the same thing through the IPC

[notmentaloutlaw]

I have tried https://github.com/nwg-piotr/autotiling and used autotiling --limit 2, which is closer to the master stack layout but it has its flaw for example when you want to swap "master" and "slave" windows there sometimes is an intermediary when a window goes in the middle or breaks the master stack layout by doing so. In the implementations I have mentioned before there are dedicated functions to swap windows so they are always in the master and slave format.

[swwwee]

It does seem interesting, and could be a nice feature for other users. I personally love the sway default, but I think it would be a nice to have the option.

[eclairevoyant]

You might be looking for https://github.com/johnae/persway (provides spiral and stack_main layouts)