On Sun 2019.01.06 at 14:46 -0500, Charles A Daniels wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm new around here, so apologies in advance if I miss something > obvious. > > I have written a patch to cwm so that the htile/vtile functionality > only affect windows within the same monitor as the active window. For > single monitor setups, this will have no effect. For multi-monitor > setups, this will allow multiple different monitors to have windows > tiled independently from one another (within the same group). > > This is implemented by modifying the relevant checks to ignore any > clients (ci) where the client is outside of the area of the current > display as returned by screen_area() (ci->geom not within area). > > Testing and feedback are welcome and appreciated!
Hi, I don't use vtile/htile, nor do I have anything but one monitor (laptop), so I'm not opposed to this. However, for those with multi-monitors, the current behavior will change - that is, the vtile/htile's will only take affect per monitor. That said, all other cwm-based client modifications operate within a monitor, so this would be consistent. Would a large number of cwm users have their work-flow disrupted by this change? > Regards, > > ~ Charles > > P.S. I would be curious to heard about others' development workflows > for window managers. I've been compiling cwm, copying it to > /usr/X11R6/bin, logging out, and logging back in. This is really un- > ergonomic, and I'd like to have a better setup, but I've never > developed a window manager before so I'm unsure how to improve. cwm will re-exec itself so you don't need to; however I typically run cwm out of an xterm when I really need. Thanks!
