Moving/resizing floating windows with keybinds?

[vaskark]

Hi. I'm playing with your wm and am wondering if it's possible to move and resize windows. In the config there is:

bindsym $Mod+h navigate_left

So I tried

bindsym $Mod+Shift+h move_left

But that didn't work. I'm just going off what I've seen other tiling wm's do, like i3. Anyhoo, great work. Thanks.

[aesophor]

Hi! It is currently not possible to resize tiling windows, as I haven't come up with a way to implement this feature (Do you mean the same as #16?)

For now, only floating windows can be moved / resized :

• win/command key + mosue left btn -> move
• win/command key + mouse right btn -> resize

This win/command key can be changed here, if you like to use Alt, you can change it to Alt. I'll integrate this to config. https://github.com/aesophor/Wmderland/blob/master/src/window_manager.cc#L127

Mask	Value	Key
Mod1Mask	8	Alt
Mod2Mask	16	Num Lock
Mod3Mask	32	Scroll Lock
Mod4Mask	64	Windows
Mod5Mask	128	???

Thanks!

[vaskark]

Thanks for replying. It's a great wm. Good luck with it!

[aesophor]

Thank you for your feedback! You are so kind! :smile_cat:

[aesophor]

Hello friend,

1. Polybar workspace issue: Please use the xworkspaces module instead of i3 module, here https://github.com/aesophor/dotfiles/blob/master/polybar/.config/polybar/config#L54's my polybar config. If you want to display icons instead of index (1~9), please change %index% to %icon%.

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2. Resize issue: I'm also having difficulties resizing windows with my trackpad @_@ Do you have a mouse available right now? Most of the time I use a mouse so I haven't noticed such a flaw until now.

I just checked the behavior of i3. In i3, users can:

• move a window around -> Mod + Shift + {h,j,k,l}
• resize a window -> enter resize mode, {h,j,k,l}

I'll add this feature after I've finished applying for a CS master degree (November maybe) Sorry for the inconvenience... :(

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Hi again.

I'm noticing that resizing floating windows has stopped working. Are others experiencing this? Of course, it just might be my trackpad :(

Also, I like to run polybar as my status bar. But the workspace module 'i3' does not work here. So right now I can't make use of workspaces. Is there anything I can do? Or should I use another bar app?

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[vaskark]

@aesophor I made a new polybar config with the xworkspaces module and it works great. Many thanks. I notice that this module has all workspaces visible at once. Does the i3 modules do that, too? That one only displays ws's when they are populated, it seems.

As for resizing, some windows (like nautilus and other gtk windows) are very easy to resize - the cursor changes to an arrow at the window's edge -- no right-click necessary. Its terminal windows that are hard to resize (and probably some others).

Anyhoo, many thanks. It's a neat little wm.

[aesophor]

@vaskark Thank you! This makes me so happy to read :smile:

To make the xworkspaces module works like i3, make the following change to your polybar config:

label-empty = %index%

to

label-empty =

And then only active workspace(s) will be displayed. Workspaces without windows will not be displayed at all :)

[aesophor]

This feature has been implemented in #35. Closing.