Re: The auto-avoid feature request

Thank you, Chris. Yes, from its description, I can see that repel is
what I want. But after the installation, I found that it does not work
well.
It has never pushed the other windows for me. Instead, it makes the
focused windows very hard to move. The string "Repelling" displayed at
the center of the screen is boring, too.

Anyway, I agree with the author that, "the reality is that the
resulting layout may not be so great, but it's sure fun watching it
get there."

With best regards,
M.W.


On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 8:54 PM, Christopher Roy Bratusek
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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