Hi, I use ion as my WM of choice, at home as well as at work. I use a couple of workspaces, every one configured to perform a certain task, or make this task easier. One of these workspaces contains Xnest with a Citrix client running Lotus Notes (Citrix is by far the whorst App to run on any Unix host since it behaves like a window manager in every regard except for displaying icons of its iconified windows). Anyway, I'm using the scratchpad rather often on this workspace, it's a tool that comes in handy when I receive a mail to create a new user, for example. Open scratchpad, enter the commands in the terminal contained in it, and everything is done without ever moving a window or switching a workspace. But: The location or the geometry of the scratchpad often hides some information I need, so I found myself changing its size regularly. So recently I tried floating splits instead of the scratchpad. It's not that bad, but I need to use the mouse to move it around. And I remembered how much I hate moving anything around the screen... So, I would like to have some commands to manipulate either the scratchpad or a floating split: - making it (dis)appear - resize and reposition it (to be a column on the right side of the screen, or a row taking all screen width on the bottom half of the screen, or even resizining it to scatchpads default size).
Thing is: I've no idea how to do this, and hope for your help. Yes, I did take a look at lua, so I'm afraid to do some coding. I just don't know what ion3 resources I need. Any help would be greatly appreciated, as well as any configuration that I could use as an example. Regards Christian Walther
