On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 05:18:41PM -0400, Ethan Levine wrote: > I'm trying to find information regarding writing my own custom layout for > awesome. Instead of the ones that come with it, I want one where my screen > is split into columns, and if you assign multiple windows to the same > column, they'll just stack. > > I've tried reading through the source code for the built-in layouts, but > it's hard to tell what's going on (a combination of few comments and Lua > being dynamically typed). The API documentation is also quite scant in this > regard. > > Are there any resources available to help me write my own custom layout for > awesome? Do you have any hints as to where to start? I'd also be grateful > for any nice examples of others' custom layouts, so I can see how they work > (as far as I can tell from reading the source code, I need to call > client:geometry(new_geometry), but I'm not sure if I need to do anything > else, or exactly what the parameters to "arrange" are). > > Thanks in advance.
I have managed to write a layout for Empathy. Seems like calling client:geometry for each client is sufficient. https://github.com/lilydjwg/myawesomerc/blob/master/empathy.lua -- Best regards, lilydjwg Linux Vim Python 我的博客 http://lilydjwg.is-programmer.com/ -- To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org.
