Ask HN: Window manager for multiple projects recommendations?

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Is there a product that organizes terminal, browser, FTP client, finder, etc. sessions and organizes them by project? I'm a freelance dev who is working on a project 4 hours in the morning, then switch to something in the afternoon, only to have the re-initialize everything from the morning project to put out a fire.

Any existing tools or tips welcome!

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A tiling window manager like dwm, XMonad or i3 could be configured to do what you want. For example in XMonad if you set the title of your terminal windows to a project name you can sort the windows by project workspaces using ManageHook.

myManageHook = composeAll [ className =? "URxvt" <&&> title =? "<project-name>" --> doShift "<project-workspace>" ...

https://wiki.haskell.org/Xmonad/General_xmonad.hs_config_tip...

http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad/XMonad-ManageHook.html

You can check windows with xprop, and filter by strings as well.

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