Hi, On 07/26/2010 12:17 PM, LuX wrote: > Thus I am wondering if it would be possible: > > 1) to increase dynamically the width of the focused column of a given > percentage, say; > > 2) or otherwise to make the focused column overlap the others of a > given percentage while the others columns keep the same width. > > Probably the second solution is more difficult, if not impossible, > since it is not pure tiling. But in my opinion, on the screen I'm > working right now, it would be much more comfortable since it keeps > unchanged all the clients in unfocused columns. > > Pro: > - Keeps the advantages of tiling modes: no action is needed to resize > the focused client, neither to reduce it when it looses the focus. > - Adds some advantages of floating mode: > -- The focused client has more space. > -- All the other clients remain partly visible, hence can be seen > in a glance, contrary to stack or max mode .
You might try subtle [1]. Nice window manager which uses "gravities" to arrange clients. You can nicely overlay and overlap several clients using this feature. As a side effect this also avoids automatic resizes, which are a pain in dwm and wmii when you view large pdf files (e.g., poster drafts) in a viewer. It has some drawbacks compared to wmii of course. Its strict tagging behavior makes it hard to use project-based tags and views instead of application-based ones out of the box, for example. And you have to like Ruby. [1] http://subforge.org/wiki/subtle -- Thomas Dahms
