Re[2]: FVWM: SnapAttraction Question

From: Matthew Kettlewell <matt_at_kettlewell.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 06:30:56 -0600 (MDT)

>
> It makes little sense with resizing. Most applications demand a
> certain resize step size (e.g. the font width or height). You can
> only rarely snap them to adjacent windows without moving them.
>
> Ciao
>
> Dominik ^_^ ^_^


For me it goes hand-in-hand with productivity, a feature that I've
been looking for for quite some time. So for me it makes perfect
sense.

For example, lets say that I ( obviously I'm doing things different
from others ) want to have 3 terminal windows for various compiles on
the same page. For me, I quite often like to have them stacked
horizontally one right on top of the other, taking up roughly 1/3 of
the available screen space (better readablity of output on multiple
terms that I can resize if I need the whole context). This task would
be much easier to accomplish by dragging a window to the bottom (move
operation) then resizing it to the left and right screens (snapping
being the key) and then having the other 2 terminals snap to the
terminal and screens through resize operations.

Yes I could create a script that gets called through a menu op or a
key binding, but I'm quite know for just shuffling things around, so
this would never really solve my problems.

I haven't looked at the code, but it seems to me that the issue of
resize-stepsize could be methodically handled in a reasonable fashion.


I was only looking to see if there were any plans on updating this
feature, not to implement it myself, but now I've gotten a bit
curious. You seem to know a bit about this section of code, If you
could point me to the base files that deal directly with this, I just
might take a peek and see if I can implement something on my system
that will work.


Thanks

Matt

PS. no need to CC my directly, I check the list daily.












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