Re: Adjust window tiles when 'snapping' window to half-maximised etc?

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Amy C <mathematical coffee gmail com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is it possible to customise the behaviour of window snapping/tiling
> from the javascript side in a gnome shell extension? Or just set this
> as a preference in Mutter directly?

No. I'm sorry.

> I'm aware my terminology might be wrong, so let me explain - by
> "snapping/tiling" I mean (for example) when you drag a window to the
> left edge of the screen and drop it, it 'snaps' into a
> vertically-half-maximised state on the left half of the screen. You
> also get the little transparent blue preview window before you release
> the mouse that shows you the outline of what the window will look like
> once you drop it.
>
> Can this behaviour be modified from the gobject bindings? In
> particular, I'd like to be able to modify the size to which the window
> snaps - I've just moved to quite a large screen at work and I'd prefer
> the windows to snap to 1/3rd of the screen's width rather than 1/2
> when they vertically maximize.
>
> I notice a whole bunch of functions to do with tiling in
> tile-preview.c window.c in the mutter source (I think what I'm after
> is to override `meta_window_get_current_tile_area`), but they appear
> not to be exposed in the .gir file.
>
> Perhaps I'd be able to just simulate this behaviour from the
> javascript side if I can't do it "properly", by detecting drag and
> drop events on window actors, drawing my own tile preview (but how to
> suppress Mutter's window preview?), and resizing the window to the
> appropriate size? Or perhaps it is just a Mutter preference I can set
> somewhere saying "when vertically maximizing only take up 1/3 of the
> screen in width instead of 1/2"?
>
> cheers
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  Jasper