Re: [PyWM-talk] feature possible?

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Jonathan North Washington wrote:

>
> On 13 Apr 2006, at 08:14, Elmo Mäntynen wrote:
>
>> Jonathan North Washington wrote:
>>
>>> I'd like to hear people's thoughts on this.  I also wonder how easy
>>> Elmo thinks this would be to implement, and whether it's an
>>> appropriate feature for PyWM.
>>
>>
>> This is definitely suited for pywm. If you have the time (shouldn't 
>> take
>> long), you can try to implement this in a wm-script and tell if
>> something in pywm should adjusted to accomodate this kind of behavior
>> better. Alternatively you can just wait till someone, like me,
>> implements this, which should happen soon. Anyway, you should post any
>> specific details you might have in mind so we can come up with a 
>> kind of
>> spec.
>
>
> I'm not sure about writing a wm script (I imagine that's best done 
> running PyWM, and I'm currently running OS X as my primary OS, so it 
> would take a little effort to figure out even what's entailed..), but 
> here's the basic logic for what it should do:
> - if window is being dragged and cursor hits a screen edge:
>   - maximise window horizontally if top or bottom edge
>   - maximise window vertically if left or right edge
>   - reset area where windows can be maximised to the remaining  screen
> area
> - if maximised window is dragged, unmaximise
>
> I suppose there's a little bit more to it than that, but that should 
> provide the basics.  Seems pretty simple, and so useful it's a wonder 
> all WMs don't do it..  There should probably be a way (in a config 
> file or menu somewhere) to enable and disable this feature.
>
> And btw, my friend who came up with the demo calls the feature 
> "Window Locking".  I suppose that's a good name for it.
>
If no one beats me to it, I will try to do this. Hopefully soon, though
not guaranteed =).

Elmo