Totally agreeing on the reordeing windows topic. Usually I keep my windows fulls screen and only have two windows side by side when copying stuff. In addition

Totally agreeing on the reordeing windows topic. Usually I keep my windows fulls screen and only have two windows side by side when copying stuff. In addition to that I have a semi transparent terminal and emacs in a floating window that I can move to the scratchpad with a global hotkey. This is much alike the visor console in Quake. Terminal has tmux. Very handy for a quick ping or htop without messing up the main window layout. i3 config snippet for reference: # Visor terminal exec "st -c visor" bindsym $mod+a [class="visor"] scratchpad show for_window [class="visor"] move scratchpad; for_window [class="visor"] scratchpad show; for_window [class="visor"] floating enable; for_window [class="visor"] resize set width 100 ppt; for_window [class="visor"] sticky enable for_window [class="visor"] move position center; for_window [class="visor"] scratchpad show; # Visor style emacs window toggled by Meta+ "less than key" exec emacs -name emacs-server bindsym $mod+less [instance="emacs-server"] scratchpad show for_window [instance="emacs-server"] move scratchpad for_window [instance="emacs-server"] floating enable for_window [instance="emacs-server"] move position 450px 0px for_window [instance="emacs-server"] sticky enable for_window [instance="emacs-server"] scratchpad show for_window [instance="emacs-server"] resize set 950 1055 for_window [instance="emacs-server"] scratchpad show