On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 7:14 AM, Monsieur Pinocchio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 6:59 AM, Monsieur Pinocchio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 6:43 AM, Matthias-Christian Ott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>> "Monsieur Pinocchio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> > Hi, >>> > I thought I would experiment with a new layout concept. I call it >>> the >>> > "overlapped tiled" layout :) or in short tileo. I required some changes >>> to >>> > restack() to make it work... though I hope this only makes restack() >>> > cleaner. >>> > The basic concept it to overlap the windows in the stack so that >>> > 1) they can have a size larger than (th / n) >>> > 2) the windows before and after it in the stack are overlapped and >>> stacked >>> > (as per X11 stacking) below the focused window in the stack area. >>> > The main benefit is to be able to increase the size of the focused >>> window in >>> > the stack without moving them on another tag. The height of the windows >>> in >>> > the stack is a constant value of th*0.8. The windows in the stack are >>> > overlapped like a deck of cards. The focused window is raised. >>> > I generally like using it in conjunction with the regular tilev() >>> layout >>> > with shortcuts to switch quickly to either layout. It really helps if >>> you >>> > have a large number of windows in the stack area. >>> > >>> > Here is the patch... I think the patch simplifies the restack() >>> function so >>> > that should be useful to upstream in itself. Any comments are most >>> welcome: >>> >>> Do you have any screenshots? >>> >>> Regards >>> Matthias-Christian >>> >> >> Hope this explains it better. >> >> -- >> Pinocchio > > > Oops... its seems that I cannot post anything larger than 40K. Let's wait > for the moderator to approve the post. > > -- > Pinocchio I have cancelled the post and uploaded the screenshot here. Let me know your thoughts... http://picasaweb.google.com/cchinopio/Dwm -- Pinocchio
