Re: [As-users] Feature Request: Tabbed Window Groups
Sasha Vasko (sasha@aftercode.net)
Tue, 18 May 2004 15:09:42 -0500
Doug Alcorn wrote:
> I've been away from AfterStep for a while, but I'm finding myself
> annoyed with my current window manager. However, there is one
> feature that keeps me from leaving it. Since Sasha seems to be the
> uber-hacker, I thought he might be interested... :-)
>
> I use PWM (http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/pwm/). AFAIK, it was the
> first window manager to implement tabs. This is a very useful
> feature that allows you to group multiple applications into what
> appears to be the same frame. The windows have the exact same
> position and size. When you move one, you move them all. When you
> resize one, you resize them all. The titlebar of the application
> group is segmented so that the titles of all the windows are easily
> visible. There are bindings to attach a new window to the
> frame/stack/group and detach it. There are also bindings to rotate
> through the frame/stack/group. A screen shot showing this feature is
> here:
There is a new module in AS 2.0 designed to do just that - called WinTabs
I got it mostly working, but its config is undocumented yet, and I need
to implement new AS function - something like SwallowWindow, which, when
applyed to awindow will cause it to be swallowed by either WinTabs
module or a Wharf module, depending on its parameters.
Sasha.
>
> http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/pwm/screenshots/pwm-1.jpg
>
> Honestly, I don't know how hard something like this is to implement.
> I'm mostly just sticking with PWM because it works. However, it also
> doesn't work. I've recently added a second monitor to my setup and
> PWM doesn't handle xinerama well at all. PWM also doesn't give that
> fine grained control over window treatment. Unfortunately it seems
> like the the PWM author has moved on to redesigns of PWM that really
> make it not PWM. So, development work on PWM has pretty much
> stopped.
>
> Anyway, there you go. How hard would this be to do in AfterStep?
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