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Window Maker 0.95.8 released

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Re: Window Maker 0.95.8 released

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Post by m-j-fox »

tezza wrote: post #23
SwellJoe wrote: post #22

The "half-maximized" feature sounds great, and one of the things that I feel like no one has right, still. Windows has actually gotten pretty good, surprisingly (drag to corners to get a quarter screen window, drag to sides to get half screen). Gnome is clumsier than I'd like. I really would love a window manager that handles tiling well, but doesn't require complete buy-in to a fully tiled concept. I doubt I'll be g…

use Divvy ( Mac, Windows ) You get granular ad-hoc tiling that fits the need you have when you have it. http://mizage.com/divvy/

The video looks pretty sweet. Expensive though.

Re: Window Maker 0.95.8 released

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Post by m-j-fox »

simongr3dal wrote: post #40
SwellJoe wrote: post #22

The "half-maximized" feature sounds great, and one of the things that I feel like no one has right, still. Windows has actually gotten pretty good, surprisingly (drag to corners to get a quarter screen window, drag to sides to get half screen). Gnome is clumsier than I'd like. I really would love a window manager that handles tiling well, but doesn't require complete buy-in to a fully tiled concept. I doubt I'll be g…

Personally I find Magnet[1] (for Mac) to be wonderful, it moves your windows around to halves, thirds, and two-thirds presets with either dragging or keyboard shortcuts. [1]: http://magnet.crowdcafe.com

That looks great. I love that it supports thirds.

Re: Window Maker 0.95.8 released

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Post by digi_owl »

Elv13 wrote: post #52
SwellJoe wrote: post #22

The "half-maximized" feature sounds great, and one of the things that I feel like no one has right, still. Windows has actually gotten pretty good, surprisingly (drag to corners to get a quarter screen window, drag to sides to get half screen). Gnome is clumsier than I'd like. I really would love a window manager that handles tiling well, but doesn't require complete buy-in to a fully tiled concept. I doubt I'll be g…

AwesomeWM is both a tiling and floating WM. It has this feature (including snap to corner for 1/4). Awesome is a window manager framework allowing its users to be pretty much anything they want. (disclaimer, I am a contributor)

And it is default WM on Gobolinux 016 (016.1 being in the works right now).

Re: Window Maker 0.95.8 released

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Post by llukas »

scorpioxy wrote: post #53
llukas wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

KDE has drag to corner to get quarter screen window for a long time.

I've been a kde user for a couple of years now and I had no idea this existed...

There is also drag to edge to get half of the screen. (only for left/right edges)

Re: Window Maker 0.95.8 released

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Post by gnuvince »

Window Maker was one of the reason why I decided to start using Linux back in 1999. I was running Windows 98 back then, and I was so taken by the style of the different window managers available for Linux. I marveled at how flexible Enlightenment looked and fvwm either looked like crap or like a work of art depending on the time the user spent in his configuration file.

But by far, my favorite look was Window Maker. I liked the large icons, the blocky menu, and the intriguing dockapps. After I managed to install Linux (that was a hard task for a 16 year-old who couldn't read English), I used Window Maker for a number of years. It was fast, it was functional, and it was really cool! These days I use LXDE with Openbox, but I'm always thrilled to hear about new developments in Window Maker.

Re: Window Maker 0.95.8 released

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Post by sho_hn »

llukas wrote: post #64
scorpioxy wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been a kde user for a couple of years now and I had no idea this existed...

There is also drag to edge to get half of the screen. (only for left/right edges)

And you can left click and middle click the maximize button on a window title bar to maximize it on the vertical and horizontal axises only. Combined with edge snapping making it easy to move a window on only one axis at that point, you can set up a few column tiles that way very easily.

Funny memory: I've been a KDE developer for 12 or 13 years. I think one of my first patches ever was a fix for the window manager to restore to correct window geometry when cancelling a partially maximized state using the restore action. A friend of mine was using the above feature to set up tiled text editors and I wanted to fix it for him.

Re: Window Maker 0.95.8 released

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Post by samat »

SwellJoe wrote: post #22

The "half-maximized" feature sounds great, and one of the things that I feel like no one has right, still. Windows has actually gotten pretty good, surprisingly (drag to corners to get a quarter screen window, drag to sides to get half screen). Gnome is clumsier than I'd like. I really would love a window manager that handles tiling well, but doesn't require complete buy-in to a fully tiled concept. I doubt I'll be g…

Spectacle for Mac has this feature, too.
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