<div dir="ltr">The script is a nice idea.<div><br></div><div>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)</div><div><br></div><div>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..</div><div><br></div><div><div>FONT=-misc-fixed-medium-r-*-*-15-*-75-75-c-90-iso10646-1</div><div>BFONT=-misc-fixed-bold-r-*-*-15-*-75-75-c-90-iso10646-1</div></div><div><div>XTERMGEOM_L=80x62+76+85</div><div>XTERMGEOM_1=80x45+76+85</div><div>XTERMGEOM_2=80x14+76+801</div><div>XTERMGEOM_R=80x62+845+85</div></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>'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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 3:41 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:antoine.vigouroux@numericable.fr" target="_blank">antoine.vigouroux@numericable.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
<div>Here it is!<br><br><br>---- Message d'origine ----<br>
De : "Łukasz Grabowski" <<a href="mailto:graboluk@gmail.com" target="_blank">graboluk@gmail.com</a>><br>
À : <a href="mailto:openbox@icculus.org" target="_blank">openbox@icculus.org</a><br>
Objet : Re: [openbox] tiling with openbox<br>
Date : 23/09/2016 14:07:25 CEST<div><div class="h5"><br>
<br>
On Sat, 25 Jun 2016 23:38:59 +0300<br>
TT <<a href="mailto:turkuting@gmail.com" target="_blank">turkuting@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> Hello,<br>
> thank you for this beautiful script.<br>
> the way i see it it isn't even openbox-specific!<br>
> however, my question was:<br>
<br>
Could we see the script in question? I like the feature of the<br>
separating line depending on the position of the cursor very much...<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
Łukasz<br>
<br>
<br>
> <br>
> >> I am searching for good examples of manual tiling that can be <br>
> achieved with openbox only, as far as possible.<br>
> <br>
> i was thinking esp. the new "If" Action might open many new <br>
> possibilities to do some semimanual tiling with openbox only.<br>
> i tried to use "If" once or twice but soon got lost in the depths of<br>
> the xml tree...<br>
> <br>
> so, the question remains:<br>
> what can be achieved with openbox only?<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> On 23/06/16 23:10, Antoine Vigouroux wrote:<br>
> > Hello,<br>
> ><br>
> > I'm using a custom script to tile my windows, and I'm pretty happy <br>
> > with it at the moment. I put the script as an attachment because it<br>
> > is not on GitHub, and I could never find time to write a proper <br>
> > documentation... When it is executed, it tiles the windows so the <br>
> > central separation line is at the level of the cursor. You can also <br>
> > use the -c option to have a centered tiling (that's useful for <br>
> > keybindings).<br>
> ><br>
> > Here is what I have in my config file to start it, so when I click <br>
> > while pressing Control the windows get tiled:<br>
> ><br>
> > <mousebind action="Press" button="C-Right"><br>
> > <action name="Execute"><br>
> > <command>/home/antoine/Python/<wbr>Tuile/tuile.py</command><br>
> > </action><br>
> > </mousebind><br>
> ><br>
> > Hope it helps!<br>
> ><br>
> > Antoine <br>
> <br>
> <br>
<br>
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