Re: [STUMP] floating windows

[David Bjergaard]

Hi Tyler,

Tyler Smith <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello once again,
>
> I have a general question about StumpWM. I see that you can make a new
> group/desktop, and set every frame in the group to float. Is it
> possible to have a single floating frame in an other wise tiled group?
Unfortunately the answer is no.  It will probably always be no.  If this
is a deal breaker for you, there are window managers that are "dynamic"
which means that they can switch between tiling and floating.  They do
more to manage the windows.  Bluetile comes to mind as closest to
stumpwm, but there's also dwm and xmonad.  (Bluetile is a fork of xmonad
IIRC).  

>
> Tiling works for me most of the time, but I occasionally use a program
> that produces a graphics window that must be of a set size, the
> dimensions changing from time to time. So this one window really has
> to float, and it's fine to have it float over top of the tiled
> windows. Is that possible? Otherwise I can make do with the occasional
> use of a floating group.
For now you'll have to make do with the floating group.  We're in the
process of updating docs, but there are some caveats when using floating
groups:
1. Resizing can be done by right-clicking in the title area decoration
2. Moving can be done by left clicking in the title area decoration
3. There is limited support for refocusing floating windows
4. Many tiled commands don't have floating counterparts even if it seems
   that they should (C-n C-p come to mind)

All this being said, I have ideas (nothing more at the moment) for 
functionality that could be added to float groups.  These are barely
well conceived thoughts, but who knows what the future holds :)


Cheers,

    Dave
    
PS. Welcome to StumpWM! I hope you find you experience enjoyable, or at
the very least, hackable :)