Re: can sawfish auto-resize windows, when I am dragging them with a mouse?

Thank you, Robert. Finally, I have the sawfish 1.9.1 installed, mainly
followed your instructions.

However, the "expand-window" does not work properly on my machine.
So, I added the following lines to the ~/.sawfish/rc (attached below).

Thank the list for the warmly help.

Sincerely, M.W.


;; Timers
( defvar-setq edge-flip-delay 250 )
( defvar-setq hot-spot-delay 125 )

;; Activate screen edges
( activate-edges t )

;; mwEnhanced-NoMouse  --- move and resize
;; the panel is put on the left with width 62
;; It is a hard-coding. Maybe there are better ways.

(defun rsk-grid-resize-place-window (grid win)
  "resize the window, and move it to the grid position specified by
the numeric keypad"
  (let* ( (x 0) (y 0) (a (/ (screen-width) 2)) (b (/ (screen-height) 2)) )
   (cond
    ((or (eq grid 1) (eq grid 2) (eq grid 4) (eq grid 7) (eq grid 8))
(setq x 64))
    ((or (eq grid 3) (eq grid 6) (eq grid 9)) (setq x (+ (/
(screen-width) 2) 64) ))
    ((or (eq grid 5)) (setq x (+ (/ (screen-width) 4) 64) )))
   (cond
    ((or (eq grid 4) (eq grid 6) (eq grid 7) (eq grid 8) (eq grid 9))
(setq y 0))
    ((or (eq grid 1) (eq grid 2) (eq grid 3)) (setq y (- (/
(screen-height) 2) 5) ))
    ((or (eq grid 5)) (setq y (/ (screen-height) 4))))
   (cond
    ((or (eq grid 2) (eq grid 8)) (setq a (- (screen-width) 62)))
    ( t (setq a (/ (- (screen-width) 62) 2))))
   (cond
    ((or (eq grid 4) (eq grid 6)) (setq b (- (screen-height) 15) ))
    ( t (setq b (/ (screen-height) 2))))

    ;; the following is necessary because "/" function can result in
fractional numbers
    (setq x (truncate x)) (setq y (truncate y)) (setq a (truncate a))
(setq b (truncate b))
    (move-resize-window-to win x y a b) ;; (display-window win)
    ))


;; HotMove
(defvar-setq bottom-edge-move-function
  (lambda () (let ((win (current-event-window)))
(rsk-grid-resize-place-window 2 win) (release-windows #:center win))))

(defvar-setq left-edge-move-function
  (lambda () (let ((win (current-event-window)))
(rsk-grid-resize-place-window 4 win) (release-windows #:center win))))

(defvar-setq right-edge-move-function
  (lambda () (let ((win (current-event-window)))
(rsk-grid-resize-place-window 6 win) (release-windows #:center win))))

(defvar-setq top-edge-move-function
  (lambda () (let ((win (current-event-window)))
(rsk-grid-resize-place-window 8 win) (release-windows #:center win))))





On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:42 AM, Robert 'Bobby' Zenz
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Here are the steps I use to compile it under Ubuntu 12.04:
>
> librep
> ------
>
> export CONFIG_SHELL="/bin/bash"
> autoreconf -f
> ./configure
> make
> sudo make install
>
> # This might be totally optional, but stumbled upon it.
> sudo ln /usr/lib/librep.so.9 /usr/lib/librep.so.16
>
>
> rep-gtk
> -------
>
> autoreconf -f
> ./configure
> make
> sudo make install
>
>
> sawfish
> -------
>
> autoreconf -f
> ./configure
> make
> sudo make install
>
>
> Execute in this order and it should work. If there are missing dependencies,
> just install them via apt-get.
>
> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 01:17:33AM +0800, Mogei Wang wrote:
>> Thank you, Chris, thank you for minding me. I am glad to see that, the
>> great sawfish wm is under very active development. I have used 5
>> independent wms: afterstep (long time ago), xmonad, openbox, i3-wm and
>> sawfish (very recently). Undoubtedly, sawfish is the best one.
>>
>> However, such a great window manager as sawfish occupies only a little
>> market [see, e.g., 1]. I feel that, it 's kind of waste of resources.
>> I hope you can agree that, it would be a good thing to do some
>> marketing to attract more users.
>>
>> I took some time to install the last version this afternoon, but
>> failed. I have tried some different ways.
>> (1) Google finds no ppa for my Lubuntu 12.04. The latest ppa I have
>> found is [2], which is for ubuntu 10.10.
>> (2) The 3rd party precompiled packages was not for my 32bit system [3].
>> (3) Convert fedora rpm to deb, and then install it. However, the
>> librep in my system seems too old, as a result, sawfish cannot launch.
>> (4) Compiling from git, but the dependence is rather complex. I am not
>> an experienced user there and cannot make librep installed, although I
>> have managed to resolve the dependence.
>> (5) Compiling from source also failed. It seems this was the best way,
>> which may success if I have tried it before making the dependence
>> improper.
>> Last, I chose to give up, and roll back to the old version.
>>
>> Previously, I have noticed the i3wm maintains its updates in an
>> elegant way [4]. It was said that, rest assured that sur5r will update
>> i3wm automatically. I am not familiar with the packaging techniques.
>> Still, I hope sawfish can learn from it. In my opinion, such
>> maintenance technique is one of the most important aspects of the
>> marketing.
>>
>> [1] http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=xmonad%2C+i3-wm%2C+afterstep%2C+sawfish%2C+openbox&show_installed=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1
>>
>> [2] https://launchpad.net/~mmaruska/+archive/sawfish
>>
>> [3]deb http://apt.nanolx.org/ photonic main
>> deb-src http://apt.nanolx.org/ photonic main
>>
>> [4] http://i3wm.org/docs/repositories.html
>>
>> With best regards,
>> M.W.
>
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