[openbox] Windows Positioning

[Das]

Ahhh snap a Window to the left then snap a Window to the right, having
them side by side like Windows 7, hmm I never thought about this
before...

So are we saying this is do able? This would be a nice feature...



On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Mathias Dufresne
<mathias.dufresne at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> You can use middle mouse button to resize vertically and right button to
> resize window horizontally in place of left button which resize in full
> screen...
> It almost remember previous position even if sometimes I had strange
> behaviour when clicking to get back to previous state. No idea if it was old
> version, my mistake or whatever... Anyway, I use that for years and that
> miss me so much under Windows...
>
> That does not answer to your question but perhaps it would help : )
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mat
>
>
> 2012/12/18 laertis <loutsis at csd.uoc.gr>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> first of all i'd like to say how much i love this WM and how configurable
>> it is.
>>
>> What is troubling me for the past of the week is how to get openbox to
>> simulate Win7 aero snapping behavior which i find really comforting and
>> productive btw. I assumed that in order to achieve so, given the current
>> configuration actions, i would need to know the variables holding the
>> window's position so i could "MoveResizeTo" those!
>>
>> I think this guy describes the same thing with me except that he is
>> talking about mousebinds while i'm talking about keybinds.
>>
>>
>> And this is the nearest i could get to Win7 snapping :
>> http://www.jasoncavett.com/2012/05/better-aero-snap-with-openbox.html
>>
>> I've tried a work around leveraging the if statements of the openbox
>> configuration file and the result was something like this :
>>
>> <keybind key='W-Right">
>>
>>
>>
>>   <action name="If">
>>
>>
>>
>>     <maximized>yes</maximized>
>>
>>
>>
>>     <then>
>>
>>
>>
>>       <action name="Unmaximize"/>
>>
>>
>>
>>       <action name="Unmaximize"/>
>>
>>
>>
>>         <direction>vertical</direction>
>>
>>
>>
>>       </action>
>>
>>
>>
>>       <action name="MoveResizeTo">
>>
>>
>>
>>         <x>0</x>
>>
>>
>>
>>         <y>0</y>
>>
>>
>>
>>         <width>50%</width>
>>
>>
>>
>>       </action>
>>
>>
>>
>>     </then>
>>
>>
>>
>>     <else>
>>
>>
>>
>>       <action name="If">
>>
>>
>>
>>        ..........
>>
>>
>>
>>        ..........
>>
>>
>>
>>        ..........
>>
>>
>>
>>        ..........
>>
>>   but i figured out but it can't be done without knowing the window's
>> position.
>>
>> So i think writing a wmctrl script holding the windows position and
>> combining it with the above would give me what i want.
>>
>> Is there any chance this is implemented somewhere out there?
>>
>> I think i'm gonna write down a script either way but if there is
>> something out there getting the job done it would help for now.
>>
>> However there are some issues i'm thinking right now, such as, how is
>> each windows going to hold it's previous state ?
>>
>> Anyway, that's about it. Thank you for the support.
>>
>>
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