Poor man's Tiling Window manager

markp1989 · 2009-03-31 20:43:17

u_no_hu wrote:

@markp1989
You should call the script with a parameter like swap,simple,maximize etc ....

that was a fast reply, i tried simple , maximize and swap and i still get the same output.

could this have anything to do wiht me running dual monitors? two 1440*900 ?

u_no_hu · 2009-03-31 20:45:03

May be.. which windowmanager are you using? can you post the outputs of wmctrl -d and wmctrl -lG

markp1989 · 2009-03-31 20:46:52

im running openbox.

[mark@markspc ~]$ wmctrl -d 
0  * DG: N/A  VP: N/A  WA: N/A  desktop 1
[mark@markspc ~]$ wmctrl -lG
0x00600003 4294967295 0    874  2880 26   markspc panel
0x00800001 4294967295 1438 771  1442 103  markspc Conky (markspc)
0x00a00001 4294967295 -1   771  1442 103  markspc Conky (markspc)
[mark@markspc ~]$

edit: wmctrl -lG doenst list my other windows, like firefox, or xterm?

btw thats for your speedy replys

Last edited by markp1989 (2009-03-31 20:55:21)

smartboyathome · 2009-03-31 21:41:59

I tried this in XFWM 4.6, and it didn't work. The borders all overlapped.

u_no_hu · 2009-04-01 08:01:01

@smartboy .. you have to adjust the border and titlebar widths in the config file to match your window decorations.

josomebody · 2009-04-03 00:20:11

I wrote an addon that changes the width factor in .stilerrc by a percentage. Useful for something like Mod4+h and Mod4+l in Awesome.

#! /usr/bin/python

import os, sys, ConfigParser, commands

rcfile = os.getenv('HOME')+"/.stilerrc"
config = ConfigParser.RawConfigParser()
config.read(rcfile)
MwFactor = config.getfloat("default","MwFactor")
MwFactor += float(sys.argv[1]) *.01
config.set("default","MwFactor",MwFactor)
cfg = open(rcfile,'w')
config.write(cfg)
cfg.close()
commands.getoutput("stiler swap")

It just takes a positive or negative percent as an argument. Note that this changes your width factor on every desktop.

u_no_hu · 2009-04-03 13:44:48

Soulfx has sent me a few patches for dual monitor support and for a grid option like in the grid plugin of compiz where you can move/resize a window to any part of the window grid. I have pulled all the patches into a new branch "grid". Partly because i don't use dual monitor much and partly because of inherent laziness, that part remains mostly untested. So all of you who are interested in dual monitor support , please try it out and give your comments/bug reports.

http://github.com/TheWanderer/stiler/tree/grid

soulfx wrote:

I'm a big fan of the compiz grid plugin, but at work I don't have a
computer that can run compiz. This patch adds grid like functionality
to stiler similarly to compiz's grid plugin. To make using the grid
functionality a little easier I've included a sample xbinkeysrc file
that I use. Ctrl+Alt+Numpad1 - Numpad9 correspond to the different
grid positions a window can be placed into. Repeatedly pressing the key
combination selects different grid widths for the window.
While integrating the grid functionality into stiler I fixed a few bugs
I encountered while running it on metacity. Mainly there is an issue
where wmctrl isn't able to perform both a resize and move in the same
command.
I've also added in a filter_excluded function for excluding certain
types of windows from being tiled. Currently it filters out UTILITY
windows and windows that are minimized. More filters could be added
if needed.

soulfx wrote:

I have a dual monitor setup at work running nvidia's TwinView. I've added
support to the grid options for a dual monitor setup. More than two monitors
could probably be supported, but right now the math only handles two.
I am very happy with the results.
Thanks for creating this wonderful script and sharing it with us!

@soulfx
Thanks a lot for the patches

Thor · 2009-04-08 18:03:11

Really useful script, thanks! I'm using it right now with openbox.
I tried the grid branch and found it extremely slow compared with the main one: 0.2ms vs 0.08ms, the lag is noticeable. I have only one monitor btw.

Thanks again

soulfx · 2009-04-09 07:26:19

I have noticed the lag as well (especially on my computer at work). A large portion of the lag comes from the filter_excluded function. A patch has been sent to u_no_hu that disables window filtering when it isn't needed.

Thor · 2009-04-09 14:06:26

Uhm, you are right soulfx. I tried a few prints and filter_excluded is not even working here.
Code:

for win in Windows:
        print win
        window_type = commands.getoutput("xprop -id "+win+" _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE | cut -d_ -f10").split("\n")[0]
        print window_type
        window_state = commands.getoutput("xprop -id "+win+" WM_STATE | grep \"window state\" | cut -d: -f2").split("\n")[0]
        print window_state

output:

0
xprop: error: Invalid window id format: 0.
xprop: error: Invalid window id format: 0.
x
xprop: error: Invalid window id format: x.
xprop: error: Invalid window id format: x.
3
X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
6
[ten lines more with the same errors]

If a leave just "return Windows" everything works fine without lag.

Edit:

def filter_excluded(Windows):
    print Windows
    print len(Windows)

$ stiler_slow.py top_left
0x3600009
9

I have two terminals, firefox and gvim open

Edit 2:
line 72

def get_active_window():
    active_window_list = str(hex(int(commands.getoutput("xdotool getactivewindow 2>/dev/null").split()[0])))
    return filter_excluded(active_window_list)

get_active_window() only return one number, it shouldn't pass it through filter_excluded(), which expect a list.

Last edited by Thor (2009-04-09 14:19:43)

u_no_hu · 2009-04-09 16:45:16

Hi,
I have updated the grid/dualscreen branch with new patches.[Disclaimer: Not tested thoroughly]

soulfx wrote:

I disabled the window filtering to improve performance a little. There is an
option in the stilerrc to enable it again if needed. The README file has been
updated to explain the stilerrc options a little better. A bug where maximized
windows were not capable of being tiled has been fixed.

changes wrote:

- disabled window filtering and added option to enable it
- windows are filtered only when option is enabled and using the simple
layout
- simplified argument checking and option execution
- updated README to explain stilerrc options and known issues
- default stilerrc is automatically generated from ConfigParser
defaults
- unmaximize windows before attempting to resize and move them

Thor · 2009-04-11 08:45:18

Hi, a bug report can be ?
top, left, bottom and right ignore the existence of the panel making the windows be put under it, looking at the code I found in top(),left(),bottom() and right() respectively that it assign

PosY=TopPadding

while simple() (which works fine) assign it to OrigY. If I put

 PosY=TopPadding+OrigY

it works as expected. I'm using gnome-panel with openbox

Edit: I'm using the grid branch

Last edited by Thor (2009-04-11 08:45:54)

soulfx · 2009-04-13 01:21:54

Thanks for the detailed bug reports Thor. I'll roll up the fix into a patch that will be sent out later this week.

joqueza · 2009-04-14 11:59:03

just cloned git and I'm having this problem:

joao@oi ~/git/stiler $ python stiler.py simple
stiler.py:74: Warning: 'with' will become a reserved keyword in Python 2.6
File "stiler.py", line 74
with open(file, 'w') as f:
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

ps: I've installed gracefully xdotool and wmctrl.

joao@oi /tmp/stiler $ wmctrl -d
0 * DG: 1024x768 VP: 0,0 WA: 0,0 1024x734 desktop 1
1 - DG: 1024x768 VP: 0,0 WA: 0,0 1024x734 desktop 2
2 - DG: 1024x768 VP: 0,0 WA: 0,0 1024x734 desktop 3
3 - DG: 1024x768 VP: 0,0 WA: 0,0 1024x734 desktop 4
4 - DG: 1024x768 VP: 0,0 WA: 0,0 1024x734 desktop 5

joqueza · 2009-04-14 12:16:05

I was using a stable version os python, prior to 2.6
Apparently it won't work in < 2.6.

u_no_hu · 2009-04-14 13:00:04

@joqueza

from __future__ import with_statement

that will fix it

joqueza · 2009-04-14 15:53:35

u_no_hu wrote:

@joqueza
from __future__ import with_statement
that will fix it

This was already answered in page 3, I'm sorry.

Nice work. For some strange reason, Vertical/Horizontal tilling was only working in Ubuntu's xdotool (ver. 20080606-1) in the virtual screen number 1, not in the other ones. So to upgrade to the latest version, all I had to do was simply:

sudo apt-get install libxtst-dev libx11-xcb-dev wmctrl; make; sudo make install

Btw, do you plan on having something like: Alt+H Alt+L to resize the window either vertically/horizontally?

Thanks

Last edited by joqueza (2009-04-14 15:55:36)

droog · 2009-04-15 05:07:21

joqueza wrote:

Btw, do you plan on having something like: Alt+H Alt+L to resize the window either vertically/horizontally?
Thanks

Look up 9 posts above you, josomebody posted a script that does that and it works great.

jeepee · 2009-04-16 22:38:18

First, thanks, it's a really neat application!

But I'm having a slight problem with the empathy contactwindow.
When the contactwindow is minimized to the tray, wmctrl still thinks it is visible. In the output of "wmctrl -lG" tt has a width and height, so it can't really see the difference.

Can anybody think of a solution? :-)

--( anduril )--[ ~ ]--
--> wmctrl -lG
0x00e00003 -1 0    0    1280 25   anduril Uitgeschoven bovenrandpaneel
0x00e00037 -1 0    1552 1280 24   anduril Uitgeschoven onderrandpaneel
0x0100001e -1 0    0    1280 800  anduril x-nautilus-desktop
0x01003008  0 0    79   1280 724  anduril jeepee - File Browser
0x04400004  0 420  79   860  518  anduril Terminal
0x0460002b  0 834  329  446  224  anduril Ghostbusters 2.avi - GNOME MPlayer
0x02c00037  0 2    106  522  398  anduril Contactenlijst
0x03a00003  0 0    79   1280 724  anduril Arch Linux Forums / Poor man's Tiling Window manager - Opera

soulfx · 2009-04-17 05:19:01

Hi jeepee,

The grid branch has an option that will filter out minimized and utility windows from being tiled. Can you try out the grid branch and see if enabling windowfilter helps? I don't think wmctrl can be used to tell the status of a window (ie. that it is minimized). The grid branch uses xprop WM_STATE to determine if a window is minimized.

Barghest · 2009-04-25 20:40:34

Hi,

I like the idea but I can't use stiler (maybe I'm just too stupid for it?)

For example I bound W-g to "stiler swap" but nothing happens. The only thing that works is stiler left/right which enlarges the termina from that I call it and moves it to the left/right.

When I call stiler swap from the terminal It gives me:

$  stiler swap
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/stiler", line 302, in <module>
    swap()
  File "/usr/bin/stiler", line 246, in swap
    winlist.remove(active)
ValueError: list.remove(x): x not in list

I'm using openbox and when I type wmctrl -l it doesn't list all my opened apps

$  wmctrl -l
0x00400001 4294967295 molungus stalonetray
0x01200001 4294967295 molungus Conky (molungus)
0x01000001 4294967295 molungus Conky (molungus)
0x01c00025  0 molungus (96%) K3b - The CD and DVD Kreator

This is the output with urxvt, gajim, firefox, k3b and thunar opened.

What I don't get too is how to "edit the script" from what I've read a lot in this thread. Is there also a manual for editing the ~/.stilerrc?

Thanks in advance

Last edited by Barghest (2009-04-25 20:47:48)

soulfx · 2009-04-25 21:05:14

Hi Barghest,

Do you have xdotool installed? Does the command "xdotool getactivewindow" work, if so what does it return? If you don't have xdotool installed you can try installing it.

Last edited by soulfx (2009-04-25 21:08:32)

Barghest · 2009-04-25 21:59:06

soulfx wrote:

Hi Barghest,
Do you have xdotool installed? Does the command "xdotool getactivewindow" work, if so what does it return? If you don't have xdotool installed you can try installing it.

Thanks for the swift reply. Yes xdotool is installed:

$  xdotool getactivewindow
14680071

soulfx · 2009-04-25 22:41:14

@Barghest you are encountering a bug in wmctrl as noted on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426383. If possible I would try and install another version of wmctrl. stiler won't work unless wmctrl is working correctly.

Barghest · 2009-04-26 08:29:20

Thanks...there already was a comment in the packet description:

this patch is needed for x86_64:
"
--- main.c.orig 2005-01-29 04:31:33.000000000 +0100
+++ main.c 2009-01-31 16:52:09.000000000 +0100
@@ -1441,6 +1441,8 @@
/* null terminate the result to make string handling easier */
tmp_size = (ret_format / 8) * ret_nitems;
+ /* Correct 64 Architecture implementation of 32 bit data */
+ if(ret_format==32) tmp_size *= sizeof(long)/4;
ret = g_malloc(tmp_size + 1);
memcpy(ret, ret_prop, tmp_size);
ret[tmp_size] = '\0';
"

Since I don't know how to apply such a patch to a PKGBUILD I just downloaded the source and edited the file in the archive (noob inside ;b)

Nevertheless, it works now

Thanks!

Arch Linux

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