---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Paul Harris <[email protected]> Date: 2009/2/18 Subject: Re: PATCH: Half screen maximize To: Samir SAADA <[email protected]>
2009/2/18 Samir SAADA <[email protected]> > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Johann Haarhoff > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> xfce (xfwm) has the maximization (vertical|horizona) option. I used it > a > >> lot. > >> In my opinion comparing two windows is only MS Windows 7 tric, and it > >> should be the responsibility of the application to allow you comparing > >> it's content; like word processing and web browsing, IDEs do already > >> that. > > > > Windowmaker also has the maximize vertical/horizontal option, but I find > it > > requires more fiddling to get your windows positioned side by side. > > > > Most of the times, the two windows I want side-by-side are not from the > same > > app. It is either VI/Firefox, VI/Acrobat (code+documentation), or > > gschem/acrobat pcb/acrobat (schematic+datasheet, layout+datasheet), or > > gschem/pcb (schematic+layout) > > > > well, I'm not used to do this but why not, maybe others do like you! > I do this too from time to time, but I find that I might want to alloc 70% of screen to VI, and the last 30% to 1 or 2 terminal windows. What might be neat is to be able to divide the screen up into two "desktops" or workspaces. Currently wmaker has workspaces, but you can only see one at a time. Wouldn't it be neat to be able to drag a line and then be able to have 2 workspaces shown at once? I often use a multihead where I have wmaker stretched across the 2 screens (which incidentally are not the same size). The line could be drawn between the two screens, and I could look at 2 workspaces at once. It would not be necessary to see the dock on both (I wouldn't want that), but if each one had its own clip showing ... that would make sense. see ya Paul
