sawyer x wrote:
I have a few questions about wmii:
I've encountered and solved these same issues before in my wmiirc[1]
and my Rumai library[2]:
[1] http://snk.rubyforge.org/src/wmiirc/wmiirc-config.rb
[2] http://snk.rubyforge.org/lib/rumai/
- Can I edit something or script anything to get the screen to divide
equally at half instead of 60/40 ratio every time I open a new application
and move it to another column?
Yes, set your colrules to 50+50 for the current view (.).
# Column Rules
fs.colrules.write <<EOF
/./ -> 50+50
EOF
- Whenever there's something on zero layer (the "floating" layer), it
obstructs everything in the background and becomes "always on". Very
difficult to handle. Any advice?
Simply move the floating client (window) to the managed layer
(shift-space I think) or "detach" it from the current view (see
"wmii-2 style client detaching" in [1]).
- Perhaps relating to the previous comment, sometimes I run windows but I
want them minimized. Any plans for this?
Use the stacked column layout or detach the unwanted clients or
select the wanted clients and make a temporary view (see "Sends
grouped clients to temporary view." in [1]).
- I know that showcasing other window managers is not a good practice ("why
can't you do what they did?!" kind of stupid behavior) .. BUT.. in Ion3
there's a nice idea of a scratchpad. You press a various META+key and it
opens a floating workspace in which you can put a media player or something
like that, that you want to access instantly from everywhere and then never
see it until you need it. It was very useful.
Detaching works in this case, although you may want to set up a
separate key-binding which attaches/detaches from a special
"scratchpad" tag.
- Any way to toggle between the existing workspaces without META+tag? like a
"next" or "previous" thing? like META + "<" or META + ">" or whatever.
See "focus the previous view" and "focus the next view" in [1].
