[openbox] Windows Positioning

Das dasfox at gmail.com
Tue Jan 1 21:15:35 EST 2013


Hi guys,

Did anyone see this, can this be done?

THANKS


On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Das <dasfox at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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