Huh, interesting, I've never heard of this before. Are you thinking
about implementing it in Qtile, or as a standalone library?
If I actually going to implement it, I will do it in Qtile, which seems
easier and better.
By the way, how to make a window "sticky" in qtile.
What do you mean by sticky?
Quote from http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-latest.html
A window manager which implements a large desktop typically offers a
way for the user to make certain windows 'stick to the glass', i.e.
these windows will stay at the same position on the screen when the
viewport is moved.
It seems to be similar to "static" in Qtile.
On 28/02/15 11:51, Tycho Andersen wrote:
On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 11:29:00AM +1100, Xiaojie Lin wrote:
Hi,
It's good to know that those drop-down terminals also work in qtile. But
what I am actually looking for is some tool like Scratchpad that can make
ANY application windows act in drop-down style. If there is no existed tool,
I may write one.
Huh, interesting, I've never heard of this before. Are you thinking
about implementing it in Qtile, or as a standalone library? If you did
it in Qtile, you could probably use a Static window (and some hacking
on dgroups to match your window type and set it as Static) to get what
you wanted.
If you went your own route, you'd probably still need at least a
custom rule to indicate that your app is floating (or declare it as
one of the default floated types). You'll also have to do a lot of
rather unpleasant monkeying with XEmbed :)
By the way, how to make a window "sticky" in qtile.
What do you mean by sticky?
Tycho
Thank you very much.
On 28/02/15 10:56, Tycho Andersen wrote:
Hello,
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 02:15:26PM -0800, Xiaojie Lin wrote:
Hi,
I am switching from Awesome wm to qtile. One thing that I cannot find is a
drop-down application manager like Awesome's Scratchpad. The Scratchpad
allows me to use a key to run an application (if the application has not
been run before) or toggle the visibility of this application's window,
which can make the application act like the drop-down terminal Quake (
http://guake.org/).
I know several users who use guake, I've used Yakuake (a long time
ago), and tilda. As long as the window is matched as a floating window
by default, it should Just Work.
If you want to run applications not via hotkeys, I suggest using the
prompt widget; a configuration example:
https://github.com/qtile/qtile-examples/blob/master/tych0/config.py#L43
https://github.com/qtile/qtile-examples/blob/master/tych0/config.py#L107
There are also things like dmenu.
Tycho
Does qtile or some third-party package provides something like this?
Thanks!
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