Re: [dwm] An "overlapped tiled" layout

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 7:14 AM, Monsieur Pinocchio <cchinopio_AT_gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 6:59 AM, Monsieur Pinocchio <cchinopio_AT_gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 6:43 AM, Matthias-Christian Ott <ott_AT_enolink.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> "Monsieur Pinocchio" <cchinopio_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Hi,
>>> > I thought I would experiment with a new layout concept. I call it
>>> the
>>> > "overlapped tiled" layout :) or in short tileo. I required some changes
>>> to
>>> > restack() to make it work... though I hope this only makes restack()
>>> > cleaner.
>>> > The basic concept it to overlap the windows in the stack so that
>>> > 1) they can have a size larger than (th / n)
>>> > 2) the windows before and after it in the stack are overlapped and
>>> stacked
>>> > (as per X11 stacking) below the focused window in the stack area.
>>> > The main benefit is to be able to increase the size of the focused
>>> window in
>>> > the stack without moving them on another tag. The height of the windows
>>> in
>>> > the stack is a constant value of th*0.8. The windows in the stack are
>>> > overlapped like a deck of cards. The focused window is raised.
>>> > I generally like using it in conjunction with the regular tilev()
>>> layout
>>> > with shortcuts to switch quickly to either layout. It really helps if
>>> you
>>> > have a large number of windows in the stack area.
>>> >
>>> > Here is the patch... I think the patch simplifies the restack()
>>> function so
>>> > that should be useful to upstream in itself. Any comments are most
>>> welcome:
>>>
>>> Do you have any screenshots?
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Matthias-Christian
>>>
>>
>> Hope this explains it better.
>>
>> --
>> Pinocchio
>
>
> Oops... its seems that I cannot post anything larger than 40K. Let's wait
> for the moderator to approve the post.
>
> --
> Pinocchio

I have cancelled the post and uploaded the screenshot here. Let me know your
thoughts...
http://picasaweb.google.com/cchinopio/Dwm

-- 
Pinocchio