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One of the dozen users checking in. My favorite feature of ion/notion is the alt-space scratch pad. I always have a bunch of ad-hoc terminals or other programs open that I can easily reach from any desktop. So far I haven't seen any other tiling wm that has something similar. I'm probably wrong though.

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i did that with xmonad - set up alt-` to either switch to desktop 10, or if i was on desktop 10, to switch back to the previous desktop.

That's certainly an interesting idea. Thanks!

I have a number of terminals mapped to hyper+[letter] in i3, five are empty with just a shell. Two are Python repls, and the rest are actually various outputs for programs I run where I want to see a log of whats happening

Uhh i3 has had a scratchpad forever and I use it in tabbed mode with as many tabs as I want

Yep. That's the "I'm probably wrong" part. I knew that i3 had something like that, but I remember that you could only start one program within the scratchpad. If there's a tabbed mode within the scratchpad, I should probably take another look.

It’s a bit of a trick. You just have a bunch of tabs and then select all (select the parent) then send the entire parent to scratch pad

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