Re: [dwm] new stacking options

On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 03:06:15PM +0200, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 02:49:19PM +0200, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> > Current hg tip contains a reworked dotile() - I think I'll
> > simplify some parts of it, but it should work in all scenarios.
> >
> > config.h contains two new options:
> >
> > #define STACKPOS StackRight /* StackLeft */
> > #define VERTICALSTACK True /* False == horizontal stack */
> >
> > The stackpos is for the scenario in dualhead setups I described
> > in a different mail.
> >
> > There are two new shortcuts as well:
> >
> > Mod1-b toggles between stack position (wether bottom or at the side)
> > Mod1-d toggles the direction the stacked clients are arranged.
> >
> > This results in following scenarios (I didn't took a shot of the
> > scenario when compiling dwm with StackLeft, but it looks the
> > same in a mirrored case).
> >
> > http://10kloc.org/shots/dwm-20060926-0.png (stack at bottom with horizontal direction)
> > http://10kloc.org/shots/dwm-20060926-1.png (stack at bottom with vertical direction)
> > http://10kloc.org/shots/dwm-20060926-2.png (stack at right with vertical direction)
> > http://10kloc.org/shots/dwm-20060926-3.png (stack at right with horizontal direction)
>
> Nah, forget what I wrote, I removed the Mod1-d stuff, this
> scales too poorly. I think the wide-layout patch is not so bad,
> thus current tip supports basically what wide-layout does (due
> to toggling the stack position between side and bottom).
>
> This feels better and simplier.
>
> Due to testing these things I noticed that there is a serious
> bug in restack (it might have been there for quite a while). If
> one runs dozens of clients and the dotile() algorithm enters the
> fallback mode, the clients which are maximized in the stack area
> might be lower than the visible one. This is because the
> selected tiled window is not the top-level tiled window. I'm
> going to fix this annoyance.

The annoyance is fixed now.

Regards,

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