Am 02/26/2012 04:06 PM, schrieb frederik.nn...@gmail.com: > On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 15:50, Philipp Gassmann <phi...@phiphi.ch > <mailto:phi...@phiphi.ch>> wrote: > > Am 02/26/2012 02:21 PM, schrieb Mark Shuttleworth: > > On 26/02/12 11:50, Gabriel Pettier wrote: > >> I think beeing able to put 4 windows side by side would be > great (or > >> two with ¼/¾ widths), vertical spliting is less used but a > top/bottom > >> split is sometime useful. Too much would makes it hard to use, so i > >> think a 4×2 grid would be nice. > > > > Quartering would be a 2x2 grid, not 4x2. > > > The compiz plugin that is currently still active but in part disabled > allows finer tiling by repeatedly pressing Ctrl+Alt+[Numpad-Key] e.g. > [9] for upper right corner. > So you could tile up to 6 windows with flexible width. > > The middle row doesn't work currently, which would be vertically > maximised windows (5 being maximising or narrow centered) > > > Are you sure this is correct? > Repeatedly pressing e.g. [CTRL] [ALT] [NUM4] e.g. kept resizing the > window within a pseudo maximized-to-left-edge state. > There was no keyboard-only way of tiling another slice next to it. > Same goes for vertical stacking. So this means with the keyboard-only > interface there was no way of tiling more than 4 windows at a time, > except when resizing them in a way that would enable one single [CTRL] > [ALT] [NUM5] narrow-resized window tiled to the screen center, which > would occupy the entire vertical space from touching the panel on the > top edge down to the bottom of the screen. > > I don't recall at any time having had the possiblity of neatly tiling > 6 windows onto the screen in a keyboard-only way. > > "Flexible width" is one way of saying it. It would have been a > thousand times easier to simply resize windows manually within a > sensible grid - the mouse way.. see screenshot: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/57588162/Bildschirmfoto%20am%202012-02-26%2018%3A41%3A28.png Flexibility is very limited. just the width is variable without moving manually.
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