[openbox] xinerama monitor edge patch

Ben Jansens xor at orodu.net
Wed Jan 21 07:44:34 EST 2004


On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:24:21PM -0500, John Russell wrote:
> I have attached a patch that I wrote for the function 
> 
> gint client_directional_edge_search(ObClient *c, ObDirection dir)
> 
> The changes I made mostly effect xinerama users and do the following.
> 
> 1) When doing a search for the nearest edge, this function will treat
> the divide between monitors as a client edge.  MoveToEdge will now make
> a stop at the monitor edge between two screens and GrowToEdge will grow
> to the monitor edge.  It is, of course, still possible to Move/Grow
> beyond the monitor divide, it is just treated like a normal client edge.
> This gives what I perceive to be much more expected behavior when using
> both the MoveToEdge<direction> and GrowToEdge<direction> actions with
> keybindings.  
> 
> 2) This also has the effect of ignoring panels as edges when they are
> placed on the edge between two monitors set up for xinerama.  It used to
> be impossible to pass over the monitor divide to another monitor if you
> had a panel in the way using MovetoEdge<direction>, I assume because of
> the struts from the panel.  This change does not effect the way panels
> are treated outside of xinerama. 
> 
> 3) Also in this function, if the leading edge of the client being moved
> is already at the destination, the list of clients will not be searched
> looking for a closer destination since it is not possible that there
> will be one.  This might save someone a few microseconds of processor
> time at some point. 
> 
> 
> Hope you like the patch.  Thanks for the great WM.

Cool. Can you stick it in the bugzilla please? :)

Thanks,
Ben
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