[Xmonad] Window resizing

Spencer Janssen sjanssen at cse.unl.edu
Fri Apr 13 19:19:39 EDT 2007


On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:24:58 +0100
Edsko de Vries <devriese at cs.tcd.ie> wrote:
> Hmm, I see. I'd be useful to get a bit more control over the window
> layout than just that. 
> 
> One thing that might be nice if the tiles can be split at arbitrary
> points. One possibility is for example so say that if I start a new
> application, the tile of the currently active window will be split
> into two, one for the old window and one for the new. If you can then
> vary the ratios of all these splits, you get a very fine control
> over your window layout.

This sounds excessively complicated.  I want the layout algorithms to
be so simple that the user knows exactly how the screen will look
whenever a window is created/deleted/moved.


Cheers,
Spencer Janssen


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