On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:16:40AM -0500, Kevin Monceaux wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Enno "Gottox" Boland wrote:
>
> >dwm is keyboard driven. Except that moving windows in floating layout
> >can only be done by mouse. But adding this feature by hand should be
> >~10 lines of code.
>
> At best I'm a novice C programmer. I have no problem editing config.h to
> customize DWM but am on shaky ground beyond that. After my previous post
> I found a move/resize patch on SuckLess.org that enables moving/resizing
> of floating windows via the keyboard. There is a 5.0 version of the patch
> but it fails when I try to apply it to the current DWM version from the
> Mercurial archive. Is 5.0 only available via Mercural? I couldn't find a
> 5.0 tarball on the sight.
See attached config.def.h patch which allows kb-driven resizals
and movements in hg tip (1266).
It uses Mod1-{Left,Right,Up,Down} for moving windows around, and
Mod1-Shift-{Left,Right,Up,Down} for resizing.
--
Anselm R. Garbe >< http://www.suckless.org/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361
diff -r 2902c669f75b config.def.h
--- a/config.def.h Wed Jun 11 17:01:30 2008 +0100
+++ b/config.def.h Wed Jun 11 17:05:27 2008 +0100
@@ -32,6 +32,17 @@ static Layout layouts[] = {
{ "><>", NULL }, /* no layout function means floating behavior */
};
+static void
+kbmvresize(const Arg *arg) {
+ if(!sel || (lt->arrange && !sel->isfloating))
+ return;
+
+ resize(sel, sel->x + ((int *)arg->v)[0],
+ sel->y + ((int *)arg->v)[1],
+ sel->w + ((int *)arg->v)[2],
+ sel->h + ((int *)arg->v)[3], True);
+}
+
/* key definitions */
#define MODKEY Mod1Mask
#define TAGKEYS(KEY,TAG) \
@@ -45,6 +56,14 @@ static Layout layouts[] = {
static Key keys[] = {
/* modifier key function argument */
+ { MODKEY, XK_Left, kbmvresize, {.v = (int []){ -40, 0, 0, 0 } } },
+ { MODKEY, XK_Up, kbmvresize, {.v = (int []){ 0, -40, 0, 0 } } },
+ { MODKEY, XK_Right, kbmvresize, {.v = (int []){ 40, 0, 0, 0 } } },
+ { MODKEY, XK_Down, kbmvresize, {.v = (int []){ 0, 40, 0, 0 } } },
+ { MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_Left, kbmvresize, {.v = (int []){ 0, 0, -40, 0 } } },
+ { MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_Up, kbmvresize, {.v = (int []){ 0, 0, 0, -40 } } },
+ { MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_Right, kbmvresize, {.v = (int []){ 0, 0, 40, 0 } } },
+ { MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_Down, kbmvresize, {.v = (int []){ 0, 0, 0, 40 } } },
{ MODKEY, XK_p, spawn, {.v = (char *[]){"dmenu_run", "-fn", FONT, "-nb", NORMBGCOLOR, "-nf", NORMFGCOLOR, "-sb", SELBGCOLOR, "-sf", SELFGCOLOR, NULL}} },
{ MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_Return, spawn, {.v = (char *[]){"uxterm", NULL}} },
{ MODKEY, XK_b, togglebar, {0}},
