From 6125996cafeaac7130bf9ab4ac159d6625165cbc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kogasa <kogasapls@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 May 2022 13:56:40 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Flatten redundant splits after deleting nodes

commit 0fc7afdfc875764d12549f711a49bd63a98776ce
Author: Kogasa <kogasapls@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon May 2 12:31:15 2022 -0500

    aa
---
 sway/tree/container.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/sway/tree/container.c b/sway/tree/container.c
index 09766ce5c..c2d346146 100644
--- a/sway/tree/container.c
+++ b/sway/tree/container.c
@@ -1505,6 +1505,10 @@ void container_detach(struct sway_container *child) {
 		if (index != -1) {
 			list_del(siblings, index);
 		}
+    // if con has one sibling which is split, deleting con leaves redundant splits. squash them
+    if (siblings->length == 1 && old_parent) {
+        container_flatten(old_parent);
+      }
 	}
 	child->pending.parent = NULL;
 	child->pending.workspace = NULL;