On 9 February 2010 11:53, Nathan Hüsken <f...@lonely-star.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> fvwm has many cool windows replacing and resizing functions. But one
> thing I was not able to do so far:
>
> A function that refits all windows on the screen by making minmal
> adjustments.
>
> What do I mean?
>
> Lets say I have 3 windows. I put one in top right, on in bottom right
> and one on the left.
> I do this roughly with the mouse.
> Now if the do not overlap, I can "grow" every one by letting them take
> all free space.
>
> But if they only overlap a little, that would not work.
>
> So a function, that makes the current active windows on the screen take
> all free space without overlap, by moving windows as little as possible
> would be really cool.
>
> Does anything like this exist or is possible?

Yes -- you can use Maximize to grow until it hits the other edge of
the window, to fill the remaining space. There's examples of this in
"man fvwm".

You could also probably use FvwmRearrange as well, although that's less obvious.

-- Thomas Adam

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