[dev] Re: [dwm] xtile patch

From: Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 22:22:56 -0200

Some additional doc I should have included in the previous document:

Layout symbol
-------------------

The layout symbol will probably look cryptic at first sight but it's
very easily decoded. It consists of three characters, one for the
direction of each area:

* Global area: '<', '>', 'v', '^', just think of it as an arrow that
points in the
  direction of the master area.

* Master area: '|' for vertically tiled masters and '-' for
horizontally tiled masters.

* Stack area: same as for the master area.

For example, '<||' stands for the default right stack tile provided by
dwm and '^--' stands for bstack (as defined by the bottom stack
patch).

On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 9:00 PM, Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to share this new patch I've written. It's akin to
> flextile although there are some differences:
>
> 1) The code is much shorter, partly because it's intended to be
> applied on top of pertag and partly because it doesn't deal with
> nmaster stuff given that this is already included in dwm-6.0.
>
> 2) I've deliberately avoided deck like layouts (i.e. monocle in stack
> variations). The reasons are given in the Digressions section of the
> attached documentation file.
>
> 3) I've included additional mfact like controls for the master and
> slave areas. This partially overlaps the cfacts and the stackmfact
> patches, but it's not equivalent to any of them.
>
> Here is an excerpt of the documentation:
>
> This patch implements a generalization of the tile layout which adds
> two attributes (direction and fact) to three areas (global, master,
> stack). The global area is the entire allocatable visual space and
> it's subdivided into the master and stack subareas.
>
> The direction of the global area controls the position of the master
> area relatively to the stack area and it can be one of `DirHor(0)`
> (traditional right stack), `DirVer(1)` (bottom stack), `DirRotHor`
> (left stack) and `DirRotVer` (top stack). The direction of the master
> and of the stack areas are independently set and can be one of
> `DirHor(0)` and `DirVer(1)`. This combines to a total of 4\*2\*2=16
> layouts.
>
> The fact numbers indicate the relative size of the first
> subarea/client along the direction of the considered area (i.e. width
> for `DirHor` and `DirRotHor` and height for `DirVer` and `DirRotVer`).
> A fact of 1 means that the first subarea/client is on par the rest,
> while a fact of 2 means that its size must double the size of each of
> the remaining subareas/clients, etc. So the fact for the global area
> is similar to the traditional mfact in the sense that it manages the
> relative allocation of visual space between the master and stack
> subareas, while the fact for the master area stands for the relative
> importance of the first master client against the rest of masters and,
> similarly, the fact for the stack area stands for the importance of
> the first slave client in relation to the rest of slaves.
>
> Cheers
> --
> Carlos
Received on Mon Jan 13 2014 - 01:22:56 CET