Re: xfwm4: assisted tiling feature

Hi

On Wed, 1 Jun 2022 at 17:01, Björn Fischer <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi everyone!
>
> with my newly aquired fork privileges I pushed a first roughly working
> version of that feature into this branch:
>
>
> https://gitlab.xfce.org/bjorn-fischer/xfwm-4-tiling/-/commits/assisted-tiling
>
> This is far from being complete: It works with compositing ONLY as it
> needs an rgba visual to display the grid. Most things are hardcoded and
> the old style tiling by approaching the screen borders is disabled for
> now. But I think, the patch set should transport what I have in mind
> with "assisted tiling".
>
> It works much like the python demo: When you drag a window and press
> (and release) a digit key "1".."5", a grid is displayed as an overlay or
> OSD to which the window snaps to. Once a grid has been used, you can
> "re-use" that grid by clicking right mouse button during window dragging.
>

Just a quick note, eventually you'd need to post a „merge request“ of
your local branch to the master branch - If it is not ready, just mark it
as „Draft“ in gitlab.

Cheers
Olivier

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