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Fill the gaps of windows whose dimensions are measured in characters #561

Closed qsmodo closed 3 years ago

qsmodo commented 3 years ago

Disclaimer: I know Icewm is a stacking WM and this is more of a feature for a tiling WM and may be hard to do in Icewm, so I understand if this is rejected right away.

I have set the following in my keys file for the occasions when I need to have two windows side-by-side:

key Super+Left      icesh -focus restore sizeto 50% 100% left
key Super+Right     icesh -focus restore sizeto 50% 100% right

It does the job, but when one of the windows sets its dimensions based on character cells rather than pixels — that is mainly old school programs, such as Xterm —, then small gaps are left behind.

It would be great if Icewm could fill that extra part of the window, maybe in a manner similar to ConsiderSizeHintsMaximized for maximized windows, such that the gaps went away, each window occupying exactly 50% of the available screen width and 100% of the height. Maybe some kind of flag would need to be set with icesh on the desired windows, or a preferences setting, if this is possible at all.

gijsbers commented 3 years ago

Usually you can just get by with xprop -remove WM_NORMAL_HINTS. Or in this case xprop -id $(icesh -f id) -remove WM_NORMAL_HINTS.