I finally got my sway layout to autostart the way I like it

2 months ago

User struggled with automated save and restore of running applications in Sway, unlike KDE.
Experiments with Claude Code for automated session startup were unsuccessful due to race conditions.
Discovered a solution in Sway's manpages: tracking window creation via process pid.
New approach: spawn all windows at once, then rearrange them, solving race conditions and speeding up startup.
Initial prototype had issues with layout hierarchy and process metadata, which were manually fixed.
Developed 'sway-layout', a tool to automate window layout in Sway, written in Go for easy deployment.
Example JSON config provided for defining nested window layouts in Sway.
Current limitations include no tracking for detached processes and fixed window sizes within splits.
Future work could include real-time layout tracking and automated save/restore functionality.

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