Re: Suggestion for better utilising screen space when using a workspace

[Bob Hazard <linuxoflondon googlemail com>]

There has been a discussion recently in the Ubuntu forums about a way
to trigger this 50/50% view in Compiz using wmctrl.  It seems to even
cope with dual monitors and change of resolution.

It is summarised here in a tutorial
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2009/11/aero-snap-ubuntu-linux.html


I don't know if wmctrl would have any effect on mutter.


2009/11/21 Mark Curtis <merkinman hotmail com>:
> Yeah I brought this up the other day
> "Window Resizing in GNOME Shell"
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-shell-list/2009-November/msg00057.html
>
> I had a different idea, but agreed that it needs to be more than just the
> left/right like Windows 7
>
> Also speaking of Windows I AM TERRIBLY SORRY IF HOTMAIL ADDS A TAG LINE FOR
> IT
>
> ________________________________
> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:13:51 +0800
> From: bvanoudtshoorn gmail com
> To: gnome-shell-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: Suggestion for better utilising screen space when using a
> workspace
>
> There's actually some really nice functionality in Windows 7 for managing
> this. If you pull a window over to the left-hand side of the monitor, it'll
> fill up the left half; if you pull it to the right, it'll fill up the right.
> It's simple and intuitive, and it may actually be something that Microsoft
> got right in 7.
>
> (There are, of course, a few 'glitches' in the implementation in 7, such as
> a lack of good multiple-monitor support, which means that you can't use the
> right-hand side of your left-hand monitor and vice-versa.)
>
> On 20/11/2009 10:39 PM, hansfbaier googlemail com wrote:
>
> Hey all,
> I find myself quite often resizing windows so I can read two, three or
> sometimes even four windows all at once on a single workspace. It's always
> quite a fiddly process and I would love to see gnome 3 / gnome-shell support
> some sort of window management allowing me to better utilise
> my screen-space. I don't know if this would fall under gnome-shell's remit
> or not? I've heard windows 7 allows users to have a vertical separator, I
> don't know if Mac has anything like this, if it does I've not seen it.
>
> The issue:
> Monitors tend to be getting bigger and wider, having a single
> window/application occupying the full window is sometimes inefficient. I
> think gnome needs some way of partitioning off your workspace.
>
> Another alternative may be constraint-solving tiling window management
> like in xmonad or scwm.
>
> Hans
>
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