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Re: Qtile – A hackable tiling window manager written in Python

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Post by technimad » Wed, Sep 24, 2014, 4:43 AM UTC

freshhawk wrote: post #9

Does anyone know how it handles multiple monitors? I recently switched from xmonad to awesome and while I'm happy with it, having a separate set of screens for each monitor is pretty annoying. It's been said before but everyone writing a tiling window manager should make it work just like xmonad does for multiple screens, they really got it perfect.

The way awesome uses multiple monitors (stack of virtualbox desktops per monitor) really Worms for me and is why i'm sticking with awesome.

I really do'nt understand why people have huilt so Manu different tiling WM's and have not improved/extended existing ones. The fragmentation hurts the a adoption.

Re: Qtile – A hackable tiling window manager written in Python

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Post by wz1000 » Wed, Sep 24, 2014, 2:10 PM UTC

giancarlostoro wrote: post #29

ibrahima wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you serious? Going from tiling window managers to Windows 8, I was like... this could be the start of something great for Windows, but it's still way too basic for me. All Windows 8 seems to have is a split view with adjustable split widths but that's super easy in any sane tiling WM. Or are you talking about Windows 8 apps being "responsive" in some sense?

Well I do understand it's basic, but I like how isolated the applications can be. For example, I can go full screen with flash on IE for Metro, or with other "full-screen" applications and it will only hijack the portion of the screen that is taken up by IE. I can keep using Skype or even the Desktop on the side and multi-task. If I try to fullscreen Flash elsewhere it hijacks the screen and even with a second monito…

Fullscreening applications in xmonad behaves exactly as you described.

Re: Qtile – A hackable tiling window manager written in Python

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Post by enoch_r » Wed, Sep 24, 2014, 3:35 PM UTC

wz1000 wrote: post #42

giancarlostoro wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well I do understand it's basic, but I like how isolated the applications can be. For example, I can go full screen with flash on IE for Metro, or with other "full-screen" applications and it will only hijack the portion of the screen that is taken up by IE. I can keep using Skype or even the Desktop on the side and multi-task. If I try to fullscreen Flash elsewhere it hijacks the screen and even with a second monito…

Fullscreening applications in xmonad behaves exactly as you described.

Are you sure? On my machine, fullscreening, e.g., YouTube will:

- in FF, launch a new window, showing a fraction of the frame.

- in Chrome, replace the current window, showing a fraction of the frame.

In both cases, if I want to see the uncropped video, I have to manually switch to Full mode. I know there are hooks[0] to change this behavior to automatically launch a floating window (I don't use YouTube enough to bother), but I don't think there's a way to get the behavior GP described. Is there?

[0] http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Hooks-Ma...

Re: Qtile – A hackable tiling window manager written in Python

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Post by wz1000 » Sun, Sep 28, 2014, 10:06 AM UTC

enoch_r wrote: post #43

wz1000 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fullscreening applications in xmonad behaves exactly as you described.

Are you sure? On my machine, fullscreening, e.g., YouTube will: - in FF, launch a new window, showing a fraction of the frame. - in Chrome, replace the current window, showing a fraction of the frame. In both cases, if I want to see the uncropped video, I have to manually switch to Full mode. I know there are hooks[0] to change this behavior to automatically launch a floating window (I don't use YouTube enough to bot…

I believe that that is an issue with Flash, not with xmonad. Xmonad only lets applications draw to as much of the screen as then are alloted.

If you fullscreen Firefox, it will simply hide UI elements, not take up the entire screen. It is not xmonads responsibility to automatically scale applications.