Re: [STUMP] Feedback and bugfixes

[Shawn Betts]

Philippe Brochard <address@hidden> writes:

> I don't know what you plan to add in stumpwm, but I'd like to add some
> little stuff :
>
> - A maximize/minimize current frame so the current frame pop-up to
>   maximize-x, maximize-y, maximize-width, maximize-height. And
>   vice-versa.

I don't quite follow this one. Do you mean to have a frame that when
unfocused reduces it's size to some specified amount and when focused
returns to it's full size?

> - A save layout as the emacs windows register so you can switch from a
>   view to another. I think this can be done by saving each frames (x,
>   y, width, heigth) and each window number in each frames. Or maybe a
>   better way is to save *screen-list*.

Yes, I think this would be useful. If you feel like putting something
together I'll have a look at it. If you're able, come by the #stumpwm
channel once you have a patch and we can discuss it faster than email.

> - Maybe a way to place a frame at x,y, width, height (but this break
>   the stumpwm philosophie and I'm not sure it's a good idea).

At this point I don't intend to formally support that. But it's
possible and I'm not going to stop you from doing it. Perhaps at some
point we might want to look into having "workspaces" or "virtual
desktops" which have a window managing theme (tiled, non-managed, etc).

> - A way to select window/frame with keyboard up/down or with the
>   mouse. (this can be simply an dialog window with all frames/windows).

Have you looked at fselect? It's bound to C-t f.

> I can hack some of this stuff if you want.
>
>
> For now, I've add a little command to select a window by number but
> with the windows list displayed (I just move the window list a little
> below the input dialog). You can find this stuff here if you're
> interested :
>
>    http://hocwp.free.fr/temp/stumpwmrc

This seems like a useful command. Why not just display the window list
and then read a command from a kmap that has 0-9 mapped to "pull N"
(where N is 0-9)? There could be other useful commands one might want
to have the window list visible for that one could add to this keymap.

> PPS: Also stumpwm crash when I use links2 in graphic mode (problems
> with geometry-hints).
>
>      http://links.twibright.com/

Ah okay. I'll look into it. Thanks.

-Shawn