Re: Resize windows like MS Windows

Nice idea! but I think there are a couple of gotcha's - things that plague
any kind of scripting approach to this (as opposed to having built-in
functionality in the WM).

o it doesn't understand multiple monitors
o it doesn't take struts (slit/toolbars) into account
o it doesn't always get the right window for 'restore'

I've struggled with these things for a while myself and while I haven't
tried to copy the windows behavior, I have some scripts that I find useful
in fluxbox and other EWMH-compatible window managers - I've been able to
get them to work on KDE and gnome.

Note that instead of xdotool I use the older wmctrl utility.

There's a bit of a description here:
http://bhepple.com/doku/doku.php?id=fluxbox

I'm pretty sure you could cobble together something to do what you want
using the routines in xwin-utils etc - the downloads are here:
http://bhepple.com/doku/doku.php?id=fluxbox#downloading

Cheers


Bob

On 2 February 2016 at 07:09, Rohit Haldipur <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> I'd like to resize the windows like it is done in
>> ​​
>> MS Windows 7 and
>> above.
>>
>> For now I have this:
>>
>> Mod4 Up :Maximize
>> Mod4 Left :MacroCmd {ResizeTo 638 100%} {MoveTo 0 * Left}
>> {MaximizeVertical}
>> Mod4 Right :MacroCmd {ResizeTo 638 100%} {MoveTo 0 * Right}
>> {MaximizeVertical}
>> Mod4 Down :ResizeTo 638 50%
>>
>> But it would be nice to have `Mod4 Down` to resize and move the window
>> back to its original size and position.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>
> ​
> Hey Thomas,
>
> It didnt take too long to discover `xdotool` is *the* tool for the job.
> I've written a script around it that mostly does the job.  Since it
> doesn't contain fluxbox-specific script, I'd reckon it would work just as
> well (or badly) with any other window manager.
>
> I've put it up here for anyone interested
>  https://github.com/rohit-h/window-resizer/blob/master/resizer.sh
>
> Do report bugs/improvements. I'm interested to see what use cases others
> might have.
>
>
> Cheers​!
>
> Rohit​
>
>
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