Re: [wmii] change column widths

On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 09:15:57PM +0400, Alex Elide wrote:
>
> Pixelhunting is awful, but thick borders are much more awful.
> Alt-Mouse is reaaly cool.
>
> There is only one thing in this world that is better
> than Alt-Mouse: keyboard shortcuts.
>
> I try using something like
> --
> SIZED=30
> function grow_up(){
> set -- `wmiir read /view/sel/sel/geom`
> xw /view/sel/sel/geom "$1 $(($2-$SIZED)) $3 $(($4+$SIZED))"
> }
> function shrink_up(){
> set -- `wmiir read /view/sel/sel/geom`
> xw /view/sel/sel/geom "$1 $(($2+$SIZED)) $3 $(($4-$SIZED))"
> }
> --
>
> but this is very slowly and ugly.
>
> Is there a better solution?

Yes, the geom files understand a more mature syntax, see
wmiiwm(1) for details.

Basically you can use following syntax from:

move north: xwrite /view/sel/sel/geom -0 -30 -0 -0
move south: xwrite /view/sel/sel/geom -0 +30 -0 -0
move east: xwrite /view/sel/sel/geom +30 -0 -0 -0
move west: xwrite /view/sel/sel/geom -30 -0 -0 -0
snap north: xwrite /view/sel/sel/geom -0 north -0 -0
snap south: xwrite /view/sel/sel/geom -0 south -0 -0
snap east: xwrite /view/sel/sel/geom east -0 -0 -0
snap west: xwrite /view/sel/sel/geom west -0 -0 -0
resize north: xwrite /view/sel/sel/geom -0 -0 -0 -30
resize south: xwrite /view/sel/sel/geom -0 -0 -0 +30
resize east: xwrite /view/sel/sel/geom -0 -0 +30 -0
resize west: xwrite /view/sel/sel/geom -0 -0 -30 -0

Though expect a better way for wmii-4, already on TODO.

Regards,

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