Re: [wmii] wmii features

Now this made me excited!

I'll be sure to check it out.
And also, thanks for all the other responses with tips and tricks and
answers!

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Andre Kuehne <andre.kuehne_AT_gmx.net> wrote:

> sawyer x wrote:
>
>> Hey
>>
>> First of all, I gotta say I'm really enjoying wmii.
>>
>> I've been using KDE, GNOME, Fluxbox and occasionally Ion3.
>> A while ago I had some trouble with my GNU/Linux upgrade and GNOME became
>> unusable so I decided to try wmii again. After a day or two , the updates
>> kicked into the repository and I fixed GNOME but when I got back to it, it
>> was just too frustrating so I comfortably moved back to wmii.
>> After getting an additional screen at work, it was too easy to configure
>> another column and resize it to each screen so now everything is going
>> great.
>>
>> Anywho, I have a few questions about wmii:
>>
>> - Can I edit something or script anything to get the screen to divide
>> equally at half instead of 60/40 ratio every time I open a new application
>> and move it to another column?
>> - Whenever there's something on zero layer (the "floating" layer), it
>> obstructs everything in the background and becomes "always on". Very
>> difficult to handle. Any advice?
>> - Perhaps relating to the previous comment, sometimes I run windows but I
>> want them minimized. Any plans for this?
>> - I know that showcasing other window managers is not a good practice
>> ("why can't you do what they did?!" kind of stupid behavior) .. BUT.. in
>> Ion3 there's a nice idea of a scratchpad. You press a various META+key and
>> it opens a floating workspace in which you can put a media player or
>> something like that, that you want to access instantly from everywhere and
>> then never see it until you need it. It was very useful.
>>
>
> i remember this scratchpad thing, even so i did not use ion for long
> reading your mail inspired me to get this going in wmii (see attachment).
>
> SCRATCHPAD_TAG is the name of the dedicated scratchpad tag.
> i have three keybinding to use the scratchpad:
>
> Key $MODKEY-space
> scratchpad toggle
> Key $MODKEY-Shift-space
> retag "$SCRATCHPAD_TAG"
> Key $MODKEY-Mod1-space
> wmiir xwrite /ctl view "$SCRATCHPAD_TAG"
>
> an additional line in the FocusTag Event takes care of updating
> the pad after switching to another tag:
>
> Event FocusTag
> [[ $SCRATCHPAD_ON -eq 0 ]] && scratchpad
> wmiir xwrite "/lbar/$@" "$WMII_FOCUSCOLORS" "$@"
>
> - Any way to toggle between the existing workspaces without META+tag? like
>> a "next" or "previous" thing? like META + "<" or META + ">" or whatever.
>>
>
> i use the attached switch_view function thus:
>
> Key $MODKEY-Page_Up
> switch_view previous
> Key $MODKEY-Page_Down
> switch_view next
>
>
>> Now, I just want to say, I'm not being disrespectful in anything. Just
>> wondering about possibilities. I currently moved my computer at work to wmii
>> completely and it's the most enjoyable and productive experience I've had
>> yet with *nix. So, if anything, this letter should mainly be a "thank you"
>> email, and then a few questions :)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> and have a great day.
>>
>> S.
>>
>
> have fun, and thank you for your inspiration :-)
> andre
>
>
> # -*- mode: Shell-script -*-
>
> switch_view() {
> local tag_list=`wmiir ls /lbar`
> local current_tag=`wmiir read /tag/sel/ctl | head -n1`
> local previous=""
> local tag
> for tag in $tag_list
> do
> if [[ $1 == "previous" && "$tag" == "$current_tag" && -n "$previous"
> ]]
> then
> wmiir xwrite /ctl view "$previous"
> break
> elif [[ $1 == "next" && "$previous" == "$current_tag" && -n "$tag"
> ]]
> then
> wmiir xwrite /ctl view "$tag"
> break
> fi
> previous="$tag"
> done
> }
>
> SCRATCHPAD_ON=1
> SCRATCHPAD_TAG=s
> scratchpad() {
> [[ "$1" == "toggle" ]] && SCRATCHPAD_ON=$(( ! $SCRATCHPAD_ON ))
>
> for client in $(wmiir read "/tag/$SCRATCHPAD_TAG/index" | cut -d ' ' -f2
> | grep ^0x)
> do
> if [[ $SCRATCHPAD_ON -eq 0 ]]
> then
> wmiir xwrite "/client/$client/tags" "$(wmiir read /tag/sel/ctl |
> head -n1)+$SCRATCHPAD_TAG"
> else
> wmiir xwrite "/client/$client/tags" "$SCRATCHPAD_TAG"
> fi
> done
> }
>
>
Received on Sun Jun 08 2008 - 13:32:55 UTC