Re: [wmii] snap: 20060307

On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 18:52 +0100, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I created a new snap which contains the new tagging mechanism
> and the discussed changes to column layout (except the exclusive
> flag revival, it will appear later).

Thanks a lot, i'll try it out right now.

> To use this snap you have to understand how it works, because
> all you know about workspaces (pages) is not(!) true anymore.

So -- what's new? :-)

> Each client has a 'tags' file in its namespace, ie:
>
> mmv; wmiir read /ws/sel/sel/
> ---w------- garbeam garbeam 0 Tue Mar 7 18:23:53 2006 ctl
> --rw------- garbeam garbeam 13 Tue Mar 7 18:23:53 2006 geom
> --r-------- garbeam garbeam 35 Tue Mar 7 18:23:53 2006 name
> --rw------- garbeam garbeam 1 Tue Mar 7 18:23:53 2006 tags
>
> This file contains space-separated tags, to which the client is
> related. By default wmii provides numeric tags (1...9), which
> can be applied on the fly to any client using the
> $MODKEY-[1...9] shortcut. If no clients exists "1" is used as
> fallback default tag, though this will be configurable in
> /def/tag with next snap.

Hmmm, why does it have to be $MODKEY-n? Can't we reseve that to the
most likely more often used "selection" (i.e. have "tagging" bound
to $MODKEY-shift-n and "selection" bound to $MODKEY-n)?

BTW, until the last snap i was able to rebind $MODKEY to that otherwise
unused key known as the "windows" key (which left "Alt" free for Emacs
and all the apps that use it for menu selection) by adding this to rc:

MODKEY=WIN # M, M1, M3, WIN, or M5

somehow this stopped to work with the last snap. Any idea?

Thanks

 Ralf Mattes
> Pressing $MODKEY-2 for instance will replace the existing tag of
> the selected client with "2". If the currently constructed
> workspace does not match "2", the client will be hidden. If you
> want to see all clients which are tagged with "2" you press
> $MODKEY-Shift-2. Same applies for all other $MODKEY-Shift-[1..9]
> shortcuts.
>
> Assumed, you want that a client appeares in two workspaces, you
> can apply two space-separated tags to its tags file, though
> there are no shortcuts to achieve this, ie:
>
> echo -n '1 2'| wmiir write /ws/sel/sel/tags
>
> This will make the selected client visible on both constructed
> workspaces matching tag '1' and '2' ($MODKEY-Shift-1 and
> $MODKEY-Shift-2).
>
> You can look at following shots to see this scenario from
> yesterday evening on my box:
>
> http://wmii.de/shots/20060307a.png
> http://wmii.de/shots/20060307b.png
>
> On the other hand you can also do:
>
> echo -n select 1 2 | wmiir write /ctl
>
> This will create a workspace which matches all clients
> containing the tags '1' and '2'. Though this handling is not
> well tested at the moment and will slightly change, because I
> want to use regex(2) matching instead in future for this
> purpose. Thus use this feature only as experimental feature.
>
> The filesystem has changed as well, to represent the new
> mechanism in a more natural way as follows:
>
> /clients is a directory which contains all(!) clients managed by
> wmii. This is necessary to address clients which are not visible
> in the current workspace.
>
> /ws is a shortcut directory to point to the current workspace
> which you see.
>
> /tags shows all unique tags which have been applied to any
> all clients.
>
> /cache is a directory which contains all workspaces which have
> been constructed. The lifetime of a workspace begins with the
> first selection and ends if the last client disappears, which
> matches the tag of such workspace. This means, that /cache might
> never show all tags which can be found in /tags or that /cache
> shows even more, once you select a workspace like '1 2' (the
> above sample). So, cache is only an indicator for all workspaces
> which contain clients and which have been constructed already.
>
> To understand the /cache namespace, you have to consider
> following exmaple:
>
> Assumed you started two terminals with the default tag "1", now
> you apply tag "2" with $MODKEY-2 to the selected client, it will
> disappear, because tag "1" is still selected (tagging does not
> imply that a new ws is constructed already for several reasons
> already discussed with Uriel on this list, see the archive for
> details).
>
> If you now perform:
>
> mmv; wmiir read /cache
> d-r-x------ garbeam garbeam 0 Tue Mar 7 18:45:47 2006 1
>
> you won't see an entry of a workspace called "2", because it has
> not been constructed until you select such workspace for the
> first time with ie $MODKEY-Shift-2.
>
> If you perform above command again, that ws will be listed in
> /cache:
>
> mmv; wmiir read /cache
> d-r-x------ garbeam garbeam 0 Tue Mar 7 18:47:17 2006 1
> d-r-x------ garbeam garbeam 0 Tue Mar 7 18:47:17 2006 2
>
> This should be easy to understand what contents are listed in
> cache. The /tags namespace is updated immediately instead if you
> tag a client. This namespace can be used to checkout which tags
> you can match. Attempting to match a tag which does not exist,
> has no effect and will stick you to the existing tag-ws.
>
>
> The column layout has been simplified now. You create new
> columns with $MODKEY-n if at least a client exists. Empty columns
> are destroyed automatically. You apply stacking with $MODKEY-s,
> equal with $MODKEY-equal and max with $MODKEY-m. Navigation is
> straiht-forwardly done with $MODKEY-{h,j,k,l,Tab}.
>
> /def/inc has been removed, because I found a proper way to use
> as maximum available space as possible in layouts (even if
> clients request incremental resizing). You only get mininmal
> gaps which we can live with.
>
> You can download this snap from:
>
> http://wmii.de/snaps/wmii-20060307.tar.gz
>
> Have fun and regards,
Received on Tue Mar 07 2006 - 21:22:40 UTC