Feature request: maximize horz/vert

[Stefan Stuhr]

ons, 21 12 2005 kl. 12:03 -0800, skrev Don Christensen:
> Devs (mostly Olivier, I guess),
> 
> There was some WM I used in the past (don't recall which) that
> had a way to maximize a window in just the horizontal or vertical
> directions.  This was particularly useful to me for exanding a
> terminal or Xemacs window to the full height of the screen.
> 
> I don't remember how the expansion was triggered.  There may
> have been buttons in the title bar, or there may have been
> modifier keys for the standard maximize button.  Come to
> think of it, it's possible that the mouse buttons triggered
> different behavior when clicking the maximize icon (ie,
> middle button for horizontal, right for vertical, left for
> both).
> 
> So, I would like to propose this as a feature in xfwm4 at some
> point in the future.  It seems like it would be simple enough
> as to not add any bloat (assuming a decent UI can be arrived
> at).

When I middleclick/rightclick on the maximize button in Xfwm4 SVN, it
maximizes the window vertically/horizontally. The standard keyboard
shortcuts is Alt+F6/Alt+F7.

> Thanks,
> -Don

Stefan