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resize window #17

Closed derrickcope closed 7 years ago

derrickcope commented 8 years ago

how do you configure the xmmv resize window function in sxhkd? Thanks

z3bra commented 8 years ago

The exact same way you configure your other applications in sxhkd: by binding it to a key.

derrickcope commented 8 years ago

sorry if my question is dumb. 

alt + shift + w
xmmv $(pffw)

is how i have it configured to move the window. How would I change this to resize instead? is there a switch? Thank you

lwilletts commented 8 years ago 
mod1 + !button3
wrs -a %i %i $(pfw)
derrickcope commented 8 years ago

thank you for that answer but 

wmv -a %i %i 
wrs -a %i %i

were deprecated by sxhkd. I saw there was a recent commit that added to xmmv in opt. Does this work yet? I love using wmutils but it would be great if the mouse functions worked a little. I have been usisg it with tinywm to get a little more mouse functionality but would like to go back to straight wmutils. Is wrs -a%i %i working for you?

lwilletts commented 8 years ago

Personally, I have not tried because I haven't used Linux on the Desktop in about 2-3 months. I believe there might be a way to get sxhkd to do what my command did, but in a different manner - unfortunately I don't have the time to troubleshoot this. You could also raise an issue over on sxhkd and see if baskerbae has a similar solution using his new commits to sxhkd.

z3bra commented 8 years ago

Derrick Cope wrote:

thank you for that answer but 

wmv -a %i %i 
wrs -a %i %i

were deprecated by sxhkd.

When the upstream version of a software breaks the API, you're left with 3 choices:

  1. keep the old version of the software. For now, I still use version 0.5.5 and it works great.
  2. adapt to the API change. sxhkd now writes pointer coordinates to a socket, and you can change the format written to this socket. This change happenned for a reason, and it's probably easy to write a script to do that.

  3. Change the way you do that, and be creative. By being so modular, wmutils provides you with multiple ways to do what you might try to achieve. For example:

    alt + @button3 wrs -a $(wmp) $(pfw)

I saw there was a recent commit that added to xmmv in opt. Does this work yet? I love using wmutils but it would be great if the mouse functions worked a little. I have been usisg it with tinywm to get a little more mouse functionality but would like to go back to straight wmutils. Is wrs -a%i %i working for you?

xmmv, as the name suggest, moves windows. It would be easy to write a xmrs command to resize windows. As of today, there are mutliple ways to handle mouse focus with wmutils, and a good one is to use an application like swm[0] for that. Tinywm might be a good option too, though I don't know to which extents it works with wmutils.

[0] https://github.com/dcat/swm