Maybe give compwiz with xgl a try. Still pretty bleeding edge, no official release so you have to download from CVS. There are several wikis out there to help you get started.
Some VERY cool stuff though...
Check out this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgNxlb2fgiQ
More info: http://en.opensuse.org/Compiz http://en.opensuse.org/Xgl
-----Original Message----- From: kclug-bounces@kclug.org [mailto:kclug-bounces@kclug.org] On Behalf Of David Nicol Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 11:44 AM To: kulua-l@googlegroups.com; kclug Subject: imaginary(?) window manager feature
So I have been experimenting with alternatives to lwm, which is pleasantly out-of-the-way and allows me to run KDE kicker for a "task bar"
What I want is a wm with a particular twist on a tiling feature : a way to dock windows to each other so that the bar between them can be moved back and forth, resizing both (or all) of the so-connected frames.
Is anyone aware of a wm that can do that?
There are "docking" features in various wm's task-bar kind of things, which this idea is pretty close to; it would allow arbitrary windows to dock with each other, (and also undock of course); so I could for instance dock all my xload windows to each other and have a "raft" of xloads that would raise/lower, cycle, etc as a unit.
I had this idea after experimenting with ratpoison again yesterday. Ratpoison allows splitting windows in half either horiz of vert but does not support (at least not without reading the whole instructions) splitting windows somewhere other than half, or mousing the dividing line up/down or left/right.
thoughts?
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