Feature: window fences

[samuel]

For ppl that are interested, the 'script' of Bjorn was a great start to do
exactly what i was after... I recorded a small video of what is now
possible with some feature branches:

https://youtu.be/H1D5rIB9_iQ

Not sure if i'm allowed to share links to youtube... but there you go :)

I would say the gridlock script is especially interesting on bigger
monitors like a 34 ultra wide... or even a normal 4K screen

On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 3:51 PM samuel <samuel.verstraete at gmail.com> wrote:

> I had a look and does work quite nicely actually... ok you don't have a
> preview of where the windows are going to land but with a smaller amount of
> cells i don't really need a preview.
> that being said i must admit that my windows don't exactly land where i
> draw the boxes... always off by a 10 to 20 pixels or something... But the
> code looks easy enough to read so i'll debug that myself
>
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 3:19 PM Björn Fischer <bf at cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi folks, hi Samuel,
>>
>> > It is indeed already more in the direction of what i would like to use
>> > 1. i only need one grid (tried that and it works)
>> > 2. i do need multimonitor working (you have that in the todo)
>> > 3. i would like to be able to span multiple 'cells' of the grid
>>
>> Number 3. is somewhat tricky to integrate into the xfwm native window
>> dragging workflow. I tried different approaches and failed to come up
>> with something that is equally intuitive and backwards compatible.
>>
>> But if it is ok to start the move-resize by hotkey or mouse button
>> instead of xfwm native dragging, then you may want to have a look at this:
>>
>>    https://github.com/bjorn-fischer/gridlock
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>> Björn
>>
>>
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