[openbox] tiling with openbox

[Anthony Thyssen]

The script is a nice idea.

I myself don't like tiling for general use, except for my initial XTerm
windows (I'm old fasioned.  never likes the newer terminal windows)

To tile that windows I use a script that works out the font size, borders,
spacing, spacing for titles, etc and then outputs environment variables
giving the size and positions needed to place 3 X term windows.   On my
current 1920x1080 display this results in the variables..

FONT=-misc-fixed-medium-r-*-*-15-*-75-75-c-90-iso10646-1
BFONT=-misc-fixed-bold-r-*-*-15-*-75-75-c-90-iso10646-1
XTERMGEOM_L=80x62+76+85
XTERMGEOM_1=80x45+76+85
XTERMGEOM_2=80x14+76+801
XTERMGEOM_R=80x62+845+85

That is it has selected a 15 point font which is added to my X resources,
and from that font size it calculates 4 XTerm geometry placements (always
80 columns) for tiling on my display on startup.

'L' is a fill left window,  or you can use 2 smaller windows '1' and '2'
 the later xterm meant to be a 'type quick command' window.  The 'R' xterm
is a full size window on the right.

The script is complex and was built over a long period of 20 years, as
display sizes changed, and I shifted to/from dual displays.




On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 3:41 AM, <antoine.vigouroux at numericable.fr> wrote:

> Here it is!
>
>
> ---- Message d'origine ----
> De : "Łukasz Grabowski" <graboluk at gmail.com>
> À : openbox at icculus.org
> Objet : Re: [openbox] tiling with openbox
> Date : 23/09/2016 14:07:25 CEST
>
>
> On Sat, 25 Jun 2016 23:38:59 +0300
> TT <turkuting at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > thank you for this beautiful script.
> > the way i see it it isn't even openbox-specific!
> > however, my question was:
>
> Could we see the script in question? I like the feature of the
> separating line depending on the position of the cursor very much...
>
> Best,
> Łukasz
>
>
> >
> > >> I am searching for good examples of manual tiling that can be
> > achieved with openbox only, as far as possible.
> >
> > i was thinking esp. the new "If" Action might open many new
> > possibilities to do some semimanual tiling with openbox only.
> > i tried to use "If" once or twice but soon got lost in the depths of
> > the xml tree...
> >
> > so, the question remains:
> > what can be achieved with openbox only?
> >
> >
> > On 23/06/16 23:10, Antoine Vigouroux wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I'm using a custom script to tile my windows, and I'm pretty happy
> > > with it at the moment. I put the script as an attachment because it
> > > is not on GitHub, and I could never find time to write a proper
> > > documentation... When it is executed, it tiles the windows so the
> > > central separation line is at the level of the cursor. You can also
> > > use the -c option to have a centered tiling (that's useful for
> > > keybindings).
> > >
> > > Here is what I have in my config file to start it, so when I click
> > > while pressing Control the windows get tiled:
> > >
> > > <mousebind action="Press" button="C-Right">
> > > <action name="Execute">
> > > <command>/home/antoine/Python/Tuile/tuile.py</command>
> > > </action>
> > > </mousebind>
> > >
> > > Hope it helps!
> > >
> > > Antoine
> >
> >
>
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