Re: [dwm] An "overlapped tiled" layout

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

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