On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 10:52:27AM -0700, David Leimbach wrote:
> >A full-screen button is the only thing that I miss sometimes.
> >Pressing a key and acme is fullscreen ;)
>
> One could presumably write such a thing using the rio filesystem
> already... in fact when I start plan 9 I get a stripe with "winwatch
> -e winwatch" in it and 3 sub-rio sessions that fill in the rest of the
> screen, but some of the offsets are currently hard-coded and thusly
> not dynamic at all to other changes.
>
> It's nearly virtual desktop space. (and winwatch only watches the rio
> sessions, not the windows within them, good old private namespaces win
> again for me here.)
>
> Within a rio session I find I often want to expand a window to fill
> the whole thing in as well.
>
> Rio provides a good bit of mechanism, just not a ton of policy...
> that's up to people to customize for themselves. I once thought I had
> a way to improve rio, I was wrong and Russ pointed out a way to do the
> things I wanted to do with the filesystem.
(Re: tiling wm that the comment was to)
I heard this the last time I mentioned the issue, and I believe it may
be the key but it seems like a lot of things just have to be hardcoded
and juggled about with tools. Making it more of a tiling emulation on
top of a single-space floating window system instead of a system where
any and all windows are managed by a single entity (window manager or
replacing system) no matter what they are, where they came from
(size/pos arguments) and what they try to do.
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