alt Hacker NewsIf I'm understanding the ask, I think niri has this. Workspaces for each output are independent, and switching between them only affects the focused output.
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nolist_policy • yesterday at 6:37 PM
Seems almost like what I want. It's a bit smarter too, I guess I'll give it a try:
> Each monitor contains an independent set of workspaces arranged vertically. [...] You can move a workspace to a different monitor [...]
> When you disconnect a monitor, its workspaces will automatically move to a different monitor. But, they will also "remember" their original monitor, so when you reconnect it, the workspaces will automatically move back to it.
Niri can even do one better: if you configure a keybind for the move-workspace-to-monitor-next or -prev actions you can move entire spaces between monitors, with wrap around. You can do the same for a column of windows (by default an individual window, but you can stack windows such that only one is visible in a group or that they're all visible in rows). I'll usually split my chat/monitoring spaces from my active development ones so I can passively refer back to them whilst working on an active task.
Niri offers a wonderful workflow; it really is an excellent piece of software.