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?
happy new year
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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Xgl is obsolete now-- AIGLX is complete and included with the more recent releases of X.org. Also, there is a fork of Compiz called Beryl that is developed by the community instead of Novell. One feature is that it does not depend on GNOME, and has modular decoration managers. One of them, Aquamarine, is designed to provide KDE decorations-- still not perfect KDE integration (shortcut keys and virtual desktops are broken/changed), but better than Compiz. :)
On Thursday 04 January 2007 23:17, Jeremy Fowler wrote:
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?
happy new year _______________________________________________ Kclug mailing list Kclug@kclug.org http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug _______________________________________________ Kclug mailing list Kclug@kclug.org http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug
And depending on your hardware setup and driver preference (nVidia w/ recent binary drivers), Compiz/Beryl can talk to the video card through the driver and skip having to deal with X. Of course the feature of the OP could probably be hacked in by creating a grouping of windows and tying in all the move/resize operations to linked corners... Maybe a xinelerra approach to window layout or something.
Jon.
On 1/4/07, Luke-Jr luke@dashjr.org wrote:
Xgl is obsolete now-- AIGLX is complete and included with the more recent releases of X.org. Also, there is a fork of Compiz called Beryl that is developed by the community instead of Novell. One feature is that it does not depend on GNOME, and has modular decoration managers. One of them, Aquamarine, is designed to provide KDE decorations-- still not perfect KDE integration (shortcut keys and virtual desktops are broken/changed), but better than Compiz. :)
On Thursday 04 January 2007 23:17, Jeremy Fowler wrote:
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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