Hi,
I stumbled upon the list of Xmonad extensions[1] and saw a spiral tiling layout
there. Attached is the resulting patch that implements something similar for
dwm.
A quick ascii-art representation:
+-----------+-----------+
| | |
| | |
| | |
| +--+--+-----+
| | |-+| |
| +--+--+ |
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+-----------+-----+-----+
[1]: http://www.xmonad.org/contrib.html
Regards,
--
Jeroen Schot
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (mail & jabber)
http://schot.a-eskwadraat.nl
diff -up dwm.orig/config.default.h dwm/config.default.h
--- dwm.orig/config.default.h 2007-07-23 21:37:29.000000000 +0200
+++ dwm/config.default.h 2007-07-24 15:43:59.000000000 +0200
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ static Layout layout[] = { \
/* symbol function */ \
{ "[]=", tile }, /* first entry is default */ \
{ "><>", floating }, \
+ { "(@)", spiral }, \
};
#define MASTERWIDTH 600 /* master width per thousand */
#define NMASTER 1 /* clients in master area */
diff -up dwm.orig/dwm.h dwm/dwm.h
--- dwm.orig/dwm.h 2007-07-23 21:37:29.000000000 +0200
+++ dwm/dwm.h 2007-07-24 15:43:29.000000000 +0200
@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ void initlayouts(void); /* initialize
Client *nexttiled(Client *c); /* returns tiled successor of c */
void restack(void); /* restores z layers of all clients */
void setlayout(const char *arg); /* sets layout, NULL means next layout */
+void spiral(void); /* arranges all windows in a spiral */
void togglebar(const char *arg); /* shows/hides the bar */
void togglemax(const char *arg); /* toggles maximization of floating client */
void zoom(const char *arg); /* zooms the focused client to master area, arg is ignored */
diff -up dwm.orig/layout.c dwm/layout.c
--- dwm.orig/layout.c 2007-07-23 21:37:29.000000000 +0200
+++ dwm/layout.c 2007-07-24 15:46:42.000000000 +0200
@@ -211,6 +211,50 @@ setlayout(const char *arg) {
}
void
+spiral(void) {
+ unsigned int i, n, nx, ny, nw, nh;
+ Client *c;
+
+ for(n = 0, c = nexttiled(clients); c; c = nexttiled(c->next))
+ n++;
+ nx = wax;
+ ny = way + wah;
+ nh = wah;
+ nw = waw;
+ for(i = 0, c = clients; c; c = c->next)
+ if(isvisible(c)) {
+ unban(c);
+ if(c->isfloating)
+ continue;
+ c->ismax = False;
+ if(i < n - 1) {
+ if(i % 2 == 0)
+ nw /= 2;
+ else
+ nh /= 2;
+ if(i % 4 == 2)
+ nx += nw;
+ else if(i % 4 == 3)
+ ny += nh;
+ }
+ if(i % 4 == 0)
+ ny -= nh;
+ else if(i % 4 == 1)
+ nx += nw;
+ else if(i % 4 == 2)
+ ny += nh;
+ else
+ nx -= nw;
+ resize(c, nx, ny, nw - 2 * c->border, nh - 2 * c ->border, False);
+ i++;
+ }
+ else
+ ban(c);
+ focus(NULL);
+ restack();
+}
+
+void
togglebar(const char *arg) {
if(bpos == BarOff)
bpos = (BARPOS == BarOff) ? BarTop : BARPOS;
