Feature request: rotate grid about herbstluftwm

[stilvoid]

:+1: for this. I often want to windows arrange with one long window on the left with the right split vertically, like:

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And it would be great to be able to do this before I need to start manually arranging frames.

[ypnos]

I second this.

[bklaase]

I would love this as well.

[xxxserxxx]

This depends on ripgrep, because it's what I've been using and I'm too lazy to convert it to sed/awk. It's only used in one place, and it is the only dependency that isn't POSIX (aside from herbstclient, which should be obvious).

#!/bin/bash
# NAME: hlwm_rotate.sh
# SYNOPSIS: Rotate the clients clockwise
#   The script dumps the current layout, swaps out the client IDs,
#   and loads the results; this effectively rotates the clients
#   clockwise in the current layout. If set executable, the script 
#   can be bound to a key. E.g.:
#     herbstclient keybind Mod4+Control+r spawn ${HOME}/hlwm_rotate.sh
# AUTHOR: Sean E. Russell <[email protected]>
# REVISION: v0.0.1
# DATE: 2023-06-15

# Get the currently focused client, so we can re-focus it after rotation
focused=$(herbstclient list_clients --frame=@)

# Get the list of clients
dump=$(herbstclient dump)
clients=($(<<<$dump rg -o '\(clients[^)]+(0x\w+)\)' -r '$1'))

# Rotate the clients IDs in the dump
# First, rename all of the client IDs
rotated=$dump
maxidx=$(expr ${#clients[@]} - 1)
for i in $(seq 0 $maxidx); do
  rotated=$(<<<$rotated sed "s/${clients[$i]}/X${i}X/")
done
# Next, replace the renames with the rotated values
rotvalues=("${clients[@]: -1}" "${clients[@]:0:${#clients[@]}-1}")
for i in $(seq 0 $maxidx); do
  rotated=$(<<<$rotated sed "s/X${i}X/${rotvalues[$i]}/")
done

# Load the dump
herbstclient load "$rotated"
herbstclient jumpto $focused