Yabai: [Question] How to go from a vertical split to a horizontal split?

[denisidoro]

Sorry if it's a noob question but I've been using chunkwm/yabai for ~2 years and I haven't figured this out yet.

Let's say I have two windows like this:

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        window 1
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        window 2
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How can I change it to this?

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            |
  window 1  |  window 2
            |
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[dominiklohmann]

Three ways:

• yabai -m window --toggle split
• Drag window 1 to the left quarter of window 2
• Drag window 2 to the right quarter of window 1

[johnallen3d]

One more (hacky) option?

yabai -m space --rotate 90

[denisidoro]

@johnallen3d thanks! this is what I used to do, but the behavior wasn't what I expected when a display has 3+ windows

[johnallen3d]

Makes sense @denisidoro! I just tried out yabai -m window --toggle split with 3 windows. 😍