On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 11:31:16AM +0200, Anselm R. Garbe wrote: > after using dwm for a while, I agree that Mod1-m is somewhat > disappointing and often results in ugly side-effects (e.g. > running firefox maximized, downloading a file and the download > window appears - or in general if a popup occures on a maximized > window). > > I thought a while about it and realized that we only need > maximize in floating mode and for floating clients, because > there is no simple way to maximize floating clients (except > heavy mouse usage). For tiled clients one can toggletag a window > with 'fnord' and view that tag. > > Well, with this in mind, I propose changing togglemax as > follows: > > 1. togglemax should be client-specific, which means adding a > 'unmax' XRectangle to Client-struct which is used to restore > the unmaximized size on togglemax(). > 2. togglemax has only effect on floating clients - or in floating > mode, it is unly toggled by request and never automatically > (this avoids all ugly side-effects). > > I believe the code might get simplier as well. If someone needs > to maximize a tiled client, there are two ways: > > A) toggle to floating mode and togglemax > > OR > > B) toggle/tag a specific 'max' tag and view that tag instead > > Any remarks?
One remark on my own. I believe one could re-use the zoom-shortcut in floating mode for this maximization toggling. It has similiar semantic. Regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe ><>< www.ebrag.de ><>< GPG key: 0D73F361
