[Feature Request] Swap between tiled windows

[amoxcalli]

Describe the feature you'd like

Would be nice to have swap function.
-Dragged the window to other position, if you drop in the center of the new desired position, the window that currently is the that tile, swap with the other just dropped, (and shortcuts like alt+tab, but just with those two windows swapped)
-If you drop on the half upper of the destination tile, it is added to that tile and show as a tab.
-If you drop in half bottom, the tile split to allow the new window room half beneath

Additional context

There is an extension that have that functionality, but yours is better, the extension is forge

[domferr]

Hey, thank you for your suggestion! Let's see what people think about it!

[distefam]

Personally, I would really appreciate this feature as well. I'm trying to replicate a basic tiling window experience in a very lightweight fashion (similar to Forge, etc.) and this is a key feature of most tiling window managers. Please also make this work when moving a window with keyboard shortcuts.

[georgefst]

Would love to see this!

FWIW, deciding how this should work with a mouse is a difficult UX problem, as shown by subtle differences between this issue and #168, but a purely keyboard-driven first pass would satisfy me and probably many others.

[georgefst]

It looks like maybe #412 would solve this. Although that seems to be focused on prev/next tiles through some total order, whereas I'm more interested in commands for swapping by direction, like with "Focus window to the right" etc.

[4f1sh3r]

I’d love to see this feature too! I’m using Tiling Shell on a 34" ultrawide monitor with a 66% / 33% layout, usually a Browser on the large left tile and collaboration apps or a text editor on the smaller right tile.

A shortcut to simply swap these two occupied tiles would be really, REALLY useful. Right now I have to move one window, switch focus, and move the other one back manually.

Thanks for the great extension! This would make ultrawide workflows even nicer.