Re: I need tiling of windows...

[Pat Regan <thehead patshead com>]

On 01/02/2010 07:35 PM, D M German wrote:
> You got me thinking...
>
> the problem with my quadrants mode is that it is absolute
> coordinates, But proportional coordinates seem to be more adequate
> some times.
>
> ANother enhancement to quadrants would be to save the quadrant in
> the window, so if the quadrants get resized then the window can be
> resized. Even more, to be able to get a window to a quadrant by class
> or title (this is trickier, though, as sometimes we want windows of
> the same application to different quadrants).
>
> So it would be nice to have quadrants defined (say the 3, one third
> each) and then ask sawfish to send the current windows to the
> closest quadrant, effectively tiling.n

If you're looking to have something smart happen when the resolution
changes...  Maybe you could just resize and reposition every window.  I
used to do something like this in my old send-to-head xinerama script:

http://sawfish.wikia.com/wiki/Send-to-head

It looks like someone even fixed a bug in it!

IIRC, it was supposed to scale window sizes up and down when you moved
between heads of different sizes.  You could do the same on a rotate or
resolution change.

> I do something like this with dmg-quad-send. You are asked for a
> quad, and the current window sent to it and resized to fill it.

Both our scripts do that much.  I want to take a larger quad...  The
first window pushed into the quadrant would fill it 100%.  When a second
window is pushed to that quadrant they would both be sized to 50% and
tiled vertically.  The third window would tile 3 windows vertically...

> I am not much better, but I like the idea to get quadrants better. It
> is a quick hack as it stands.

Both our scripts may be quick hacks, but I'd feel like I was in the dark
ages if I had to do without.

> Pat>  My ugly script does one other unrelated, but interesting,
> thing.  It Pat>  sets the font size of my terminals based on
> quadrant.  I find Pat>  terminals under 80x25 and too far over 80
> columns wide to be pretty Pat>  useless most of the time.
>
> Mmm, I guess we can have hooks for after a window is sent to a quad,
> they are executed. I kind of like that.

It is very handy.  I tried to write a resize hook for terminal windows. 
 I failed.  I don't remember why, though.  My idea was pretty simple. 
If a terminal was resized to under 80 columns it should decrease the 
font size.  If it was resized above, say, 120 columns it should increase 
the font size.

Pat