Re: The auto-avoid feature request

Christopher Roy Bratusek <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.sawfish
Organization Nanolx.org
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am 2012-10-04 13:43, schrieb Mogei Wang:
> Hi,
>
> Recently, I have also noticed that, the Aura window manager  (by
> google for chrome-os; see [1]) can move the unfocused windows
> automatically to meet the users' needs [2]. That is, when I drag one
> window to cover the most area of another window, the wm would move 
> the
> second window to some empty space. This the auto-avoid feature seems
> very cool!
>
> I believe that such a feature can be achieved in sawfish. Can anyone
> write an extension to address this feature request please?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> yours, m.w.
>
>
> [1] 
> https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/developers/design-documents/aura
> [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNs0kNOIBnk

If I remember correctly repel script from wiki does something similar 
("pushes other windows out of the way"), though I dunno whether it's 
exactly what you want.

Regards,
Chris

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