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iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

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wm-experiments: pytiler - Tiling/window management for floating WMs

I've created a few little tools and things to experiment with WMs recently and I'm slowly putting them into this git repository:
http://github.com/iphitus/wm-experiment … er/pytiler

The first one is pytiler. It's a usable proof of concept window tiler for any standards compliant floating (or tiling) WM. It runs as a daemon, continually managing/arranging windows. This gives the same behaviour as if you're running a tiling WM - in your floating WM. If you think about it, floating WM's do very little arrangement/positioning, so they don't mind if an external tool does it for them. Alternatively it can be called to just tidy up/layout windows without the daemon.

I realise there is already the "Poor Man's Window Tiler" however it has a few pitfalls
- Can only be called once off
- Parses and executes external commands for it's window control.

pytiler uses libwnck, which can either be found in gnome-python-desktop (gnome dep) or libwnck-python (AUR, no gnome dep).

I no longer use pytiler and don't have the time to develop/maintain it so I'm hoping someone here will find it useful or wish to extend it further.

Last edited by iphitus (2009-07-25 01:26:27)

Tyriel

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2009-01-20

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Re: wm-experiments: pytiler - Tiling/window management for floating WMs

I really love the idea of this.  Nice work

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The software required Windows XP or better, so I installed archlinux.

sand_man

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 2,164

Re: wm-experiments: pytiler - Tiling/window management for floating WMs

I really love the idea of this.  Nice work

Search the forums for stiler

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iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: wm-experiments: pytiler - Tiling/window management for floating WMs

I really love the idea of this.  Nice work

Search the forums for stiler

I have mentioned stiler above, however this implementation does more than a few things differently, ie, 'continual' management of windows and not parsing the output of externally called programs.

Last edited by iphitus (2009-07-29 12:13:29)

u_no_hu

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Registered: 2008-06-15

Posts: 453

Re: wm-experiments: pytiler - Tiling/window management for floating WMs

There is also wumwum. It does continual management but is written in perl .

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