I often find myself resizing windows not for their content but in order to cover an underlying window that has a colorful distracting graphic.
I find the Attention-helper in Compiz a valuable tool for window managing. I've set the ADD-helper to desaturate and reduce bright to background windows, and it helps - I can now leave the selected window alone, and don't need to resize that often. On 2 July 2010 11:10, Philipp Wendler wrote: > So I would like to see ways to make window placement easier. Do you know > anything that I could try? I like how Windows 7 allows placing a vertical rectangle size for reading documents by dragging the window to a border, although it doesn't always find the best fit. This could be generalized for arbitrary shapes. I would like something like the "drag-to-zoom" in interactive maps and other zooming applications, but for windows resizing. Say I'm reading a webpage and I want the window to show exactly the article text, but not the navigation and advertisement bars. The perfect layout could be set pressing a key (Super?) to enter drag mode, and draw a rectangle around the shown text - maybe overstepping the current window border. The window would resize to include the exact size of the rectangle. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
