Re: [STUMP] 'Virtual screens' or vertical tiling of groups?

[Piotr Klibert]

Hi,

I once tried to hack something like this, but stopped midway -
displaying such desktops/groups grid in the mode-line was a bit too
much for me. I came up with a different idea. As I'm used to 3x3
virtual desktop setups, I did something like this. I created 9 groups
and then bound `C-M-left/right` to normal gnext/gprev, but then bound
`C-M-up/down` to skip by three positions forward or backward. There
was a bit of additional code for `C-M-up/down` to detect edges and so
on, and of course all the groups were displayed linearly on the
mode-line, but this way I've got my 3x3 setup back. I since abandoned
this script for some reason, I can try to find it if you want.

On the other hand, last week I finally started learning Xlib, so maybe
I'll get back to implementing the "pager" I miss so much from
Enlightenment, KDE and XFCE.


Best regards,
Piotr Klibert


2016-02-03 23:05 GMT+01:00  <address@hidden>:
> Hi David,
>
> Thanks for feedback and pointers to the code, however I would not
> expect to be able to code it as my lisp skills are abysmal. I suppose
> it's more realistic as a feature request for the stumpwm rewrite you
> mention (i was unaware of this, but then again have not been keeping
> up-to-date with the list lately).
>
> /Johnny
>
> David Bjergaard <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is technically possible, but would require some non-trivial amount of
>> hacking.  Since stumpwm has its own custom GUI code, you would have to roll 
>> your
>> own version that does what you propose in an X-window.  You probably want to
>> start with the code that draws the dialog for "windowlist", aka,
>> select-window-from-menu.  The issue is that a lot of these allow the user to
>> redefine them so they have format strings that will modify their behavior.  
>> It
>> may make hacking the code more difficult.
>>
>> If you've got the lisp chops to do this, please feel free to implement it as 
>> a
>> module. This would be very useful!  If not, then I think this is a great idea
>> for paulownia, the modern stumpwm re-write.
>>
>>     David
>>
>> <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> I am wondering if there is any way, or opinion on the idea, to 'tile'
>>> groups much like frames can be tiled. I occasionally find myself working
>>> with multiple projects at once, and for each project I like to have
>>> various applications/views with different groups, so stacking the projects
>>> vertically and each projects applications horizontally would provide
>>> great flexibility.
>>>
>>> Something like:
>>>
>>> |-----------+-----------+-------------+-----------+
>>> | Group 1.1 | Group 1.2 | Group 1.3   | Group 1.4 | <- Project 1
>>> |-----------+-----------+-------------+-----------+
>>> | Group 2.1 | Group 2.2 | <Group 2.3> | Group 2.4 | <- Project 2
>>> |-----------+-----------+-------------+-----------+
>>> | Group 3.1 | Group 3.2 | Group 3.3   | Group 3.4 | <- Project 3
>>> |-----------+-----------+-------------+-----------+
>>>
>>> Where Group 2.3 is the current group and then 'gnext' would take me to
>>> 2.4 and 'gprev' to 2.2. Two new functions, e.g. 'gup' could instead go
>>> to 1.3 and 'gdown' to 3.3.
>>>
>>> I guess this is sort of a virtual wall of screens.
>>>
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