[opensuse] Can I easily tile a desktop in KDE 4.3 (openSUSE 11.2)?
I sometimes run a number of related applications in a Desktop on KDE. I find myself tiling the desktop with these by hand. Is there a way to tile a desktop with it's windows in some easy manner? I have a vague memory of something in KDE3. But I cannot remember what it was. If it makes any difference, I am not using any desktop effects. So it would have to work without effects. Any suggestions? -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 19 of May 2010, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
I sometimes run a number of related applications in a Desktop on KDE. I find myself tiling the desktop with these by hand. Is there a way to tile a desktop with it's windows in some easy manner? I have a vague memory of something in KDE3. But I cannot remember what it was. If it makes any difference, I am not using any desktop effects. So it would have to work without effects. Any suggestions?
Tiling support has been merged for KDE SC 4.5, so when that is released you might want to upgrade from a repository. What you refer to from KDE3 would be probably 'qdbus org.kde.kwin /KWin unclutterDesktop', but that's not tiling, that just positions windows in order to overlap as little as possible. If you can write scripts you could try to write one using http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/WMIface?content=40425 that'd do the layout manually in whichever way you'd want and assign a shortcut to this command. -- Lubos Lunak openSUSE Boosters team, KDE developer l.lunak@suse.cz , l.lunak@kde.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 14:21 +0200, Lubos Lunak wrote:
Tiling support has been merged for KDE SC 4.5, so when that is released you might want to upgrade from a repository. What you refer to from KDE3 would be probably 'qdbus org.kde.kwin /KWin unclutterDesktop', but that's not tiling, that just positions windows in order to overlap as little as possible. If you can write scripts you could try to write one using http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/WMIface?content=40425 that'd do the layout manually in whichever way you'd want and assign a shortcut to this command.
I will give wmiface a try. I can get the list of windows and their current geometry. Does wmiface provide info on things like the visible size of the desktop (e.g., the area into which I can place windows)? I do not see that in the README for the program. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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