Re: FVWM: follow-mode like feature in fvwm

From: brian moore <bem_at_cmc.net>
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 22:47:30 -0700

On Sun, Jun 14, 1998 at 12:14:09AM -0500, Nathan Froyd wrote:
> Neil Zanella wrote:
> > Has anyone taken up the task of developing a follow-mode like feature for
> > the window manager?
>
> I think somebody posted this a few days ago. Does anybody else
> understand this concept or why it would be useful? And anyway, I think
> it has to be at the application level, not the window manager level.

Yeah, if I understand it, imagine opening something like Netscape that
takes half your screen top to bottom:


    +------------------+
    | +-----+ |
    | | | |
    | | | |
    | | | |
    | | | |
    | +-----+ |
    +------------------+

The request is to allow making Netscape think that it is twice as tall
as it is, and then take the 'bottom' half and move it to the right:


    +------------------+
    | +-----+ +-----+ |
    | |Top | |Bottom |
    | | | | | |
    | | | | | |
    | | | | | |
    | +-----+ +-----+ |
    +------------------+

I don't think you can do that without running Netscape in a virtual
frame buffer and then ripping apart things for the real server.
It's not really a Window manager thing to solve. (And, gads, it would
get confusing real fast: think of scrollbars and how scrolling up would
move from the right window suddendly to the left...)

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