Today I figured out why the awesome window manager's tags are so eh, awesome.

I'm attending debconf via irc and web stream, and have that on tag 9. Which I mostly think of a a desktop, since I generally view one tag at a time, and flip between them like desktops.

But often I want to browse the web, or do something else too, without losing the video and irc offscreen. So from tag 9, I can press mod+ctrl+3 to display tags 9+3 at the same time. And after I've done this, can mod+left/right to go up and down between tags, and tag 9 stays selected and visible. Awesome automatically lays everything out.

Only thing I don't like is that if I use mod+N to switch to a specific tag, it will drop tag 9.

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