On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Amy C <mathematical.cof...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it possible to customise the behaviour of window snapping/tiling > from the javascript side in a gnome shell extension? Or just set this > as a preference in Mutter directly?
No. I'm sorry. > I'm aware my terminology might be wrong, so let me explain - by > "snapping/tiling" I mean (for example) when you drag a window to the > left edge of the screen and drop it, it 'snaps' into a > vertically-half-maximised state on the left half of the screen. You > also get the little transparent blue preview window before you release > the mouse that shows you the outline of what the window will look like > once you drop it. > > Can this behaviour be modified from the gobject bindings? In > particular, I'd like to be able to modify the size to which the window > snaps - I've just moved to quite a large screen at work and I'd prefer > the windows to snap to 1/3rd of the screen's width rather than 1/2 > when they vertically maximize. > > I notice a whole bunch of functions to do with tiling in > tile-preview.c window.c in the mutter source (I think what I'm after > is to override `meta_window_get_current_tile_area`), but they appear > not to be exposed in the .gir file. > > Perhaps I'd be able to just simulate this behaviour from the > javascript side if I can't do it "properly", by detecting drag and > drop events on window actors, drawing my own tile preview (but how to > suppress Mutter's window preview?), and resizing the window to the > appropriate size? Or perhaps it is just a Mutter preference I can set > somewhere saying "when vertically maximizing only take up 1/3 of the > screen in width instead of 1/2"? > > cheers > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > gnome-shell-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list -- Jasper _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
