Actually, in my humble opinion, tiling is the task of the user's window manager. In MS Windows you can drag a window against the left or right side of the screen (or do the equivalent with windows-key-left and right); many Linux window managers support the same mechanism. Others are really build around the tiling concept (like wmii, ion3, dwm, xmonad, ...) Interfering with standard window managment might actually harm the workflow for people using those...
I like the snapshot idea of robert. just my two cents. On Aug 17, 2015 9:40 PM, "chris burke" <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, I like the idea of a user-defined config, and also that it need not > involve tiling as such. It could be similar to the Launch Pad menu, with > each entry a name followed by the appropriate wd command. > > We can already position a window with a wd command, e.g. wd 'sm set edit > xywh 0 0 500 500', but for this menu I think percentages would be better, > as the same command would work irrespective of current screen resolution. > > Perhaps wd 'sm set edit xywhp 0 0 50 100' to mean 50% horizontal, 100% > vertical, and wd 'tile p1 ... p8' as a short form of this to mean the edit > position followed by the term position. > > On 17 August 2015 at 09:34, robert therriault <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > What about having an option to snapshot a current configuration of > screens > > and then save it. This would allow you to drag and size screens into > > position as you wanted and then later retrieve the configuration from the > > list of definitions that were created, perhaps off of a menu selection? > > > > Cheers, bob > > > > On Aug 17, 2015, at 9:24 AM, chris burke <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > While we are on this, another J6 feature I'd like to port is some kind > of > > > tiling. > > > > > > In J6 and earlier, this was important because each edit session was a > > > separate window, and it would be common to have several J windows open. > > > Tiling was one way to manage this. > > > > > > In J8, there are nearly always only two windows, Term and Edit, so > there > > is > > > not the same need as before. However, I occasionally want to tile so > the > > > two windows fill the screen, either horizontally or vertically. This is > > > particularly useful when giving presentations, so only J needs to be > > shown. > > > The original state should be remembered so they can be tiled and > untiled. > > > > > > The question is what are the appropriate commands, and should this be > > fine > > > tuned so that, for example, you could give Term 40% of the screen and > > Edit > > > the rest? > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
