On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Paul Harris <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> 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.
>

I don't feel wmaker as future tile window manager. though a separate
application could do the job for that.
if only scripting wmaker was possible.
there's a python area somewhere in the code, but didn't look more than
that. take a look at it maybe interesting.

> 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
>
>


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