Tile plugin

[mikedee]

Here is a new simple plugin which may be useful. It seems to run perfectly.

These are the default keybindings.

Vertically - Super + Shift + w
Horizontally - Super + Shift + q
Tile - Super + Shift + a
Cascade - Super + Shift + s
Restore - Super + Shift + z

http://www.anykeysoftware.co.uk/compiz/plugins/tile.tar.gz

See this forum post for more info.

http://forum.beryl-project.org/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=1341

Written by Pichalsi

[lagorgy]

thx! i love useful plugins

[lagorgy]

just 1 bug, when i tilecascade and tiletile the title bar of the upper windows hide behind gnome panel.

[pichalsi]

just 1 bug, when i tilecascade and tiletile the title bar of the upper windows hide behind gnome panel.
Thanks for the bug i fixed it but only for beryl, hopefully mikedee will change it here with the last version on beryl forum

[mikedee]

Thanks, I have updated it now (I am going to write a script to do it one of these days :roll: )

I also removed your FILE*f=fopen("/home/miso/pici","a+"); line, I assume it was for debugging ;)

[pichalsi]

Thanks, I have updated it now (I am going to write a script to do it one of these days :roll: )

I also removed your FILE*f=fopen("/home/miso/pici","a+"); line, I assume it was for debugging ;)
lol youre right :)

[mikedee]

I have just updated this plugin, it has different animation options which you must enable first.

[riffer7]

Im sorry, Im somewhat new to this stuff and I don't know how to install the Tile plugin into Compiz Fusion, I tried going to the directory and typing Make, but I got this error Message. How can I install this plugin? I really miss it xD

-e compiling : tile.c -> build/libtile.loPackage x11 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `x11.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'x11' found
Package compiz was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `compiz.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'compiz' found
/bin/sh: libtool: not found
make: *** [build/libtile.lo] Error 127

[Deciare]

You will need development header and libraries from Compiz and libX11, and potentially other files, to compile a plugin from source code. Which Linux distribution are you using? The exact packages you need to install and how you would install them varies between distros.

[riffer7]

I am using Ubuntu 7.10.
About libraries from x11, libx11-dev is selectable from synaptic, are those the headers I need to install?
For compiz, is that compiz-dev?
Thank you very much for your help.

[Deciare]

I am using Ubuntu 7.10.
About libraries from x11, libx11-dev is selectable from synaptic, are those the headers I need to install?
For compiz, is that compiz-dev?
Thank you very much for your help.
You can certainly do it that way, yes. ^_^ I think you'll need more than just those two, so the package contents search at http://packages.ubuntu.com will be most helpful if you decide to do it that way.

There is also a comprehensive list of every package you're likely to need for compiling Compiz plugins in Fyda's guide to compiling Compiz Fusion from git on Ubuntu Feitsy (http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?t=1985) (which mostly also applies for Gutsy). Here are the commands straight out of that thread:
sudo apt-get install git-core automake build-essential intltool libtool python-pyrex python2.5-dev xsltproc
sudo apt-get build-dep compiz

[chh.gx7]

Sorry to post this here (hassling to register Bugzilla for a tiny matter), but left tiling mode is currently broken for the windows placed to right side.
diff --git a/tile.c b/tile.c
index 7e47195..125abeb 100644
--- a/tile.c
+++ b/tile.c
@@ -889,7 +889,7 @@ applyTiling (CompScreen *s)
else
{
x = workArea.x + (workArea.width * occupancy / 100);
- y = workArea.y + (i * height);
+ y = workArea.y + ((i - 1) * height);
winWidth = (workArea.width * (100 - occupancy) / 100);
winHeight = height;


I hope some dev accept this patch.

TIA.

[TheSatori]

Greetings,

I am also using Ubuntu 7.10, and tried following the instructions provided by Deciare. The command sudo apt-get build-dep compiz reported that I also needed libcairo2-dev to be able to compile compiz plugins, so I installed that as well.

I was unable to download the tile plugin from http://www.anykeysoftware.co.uk/compiz/plugins/tile.tar.gz, but I found the project at http://gitweb.opencompositing.org/?p=fusion/plugins/tile and grabbed a snapshot of the repository there.

Now, when I try running make, I get an error reporting the lack of a file tile_options.h. Some details follow:

thesatori@lappie:~
> cd /home/thesatori/compiz/tile

thesatori@lappie:~/compiz/tile
> ls -a
. .. Makefile plugin.info tile.c tile.xml.in

thesatori@lappie:~/compiz/tile
> make
convert : tile.xml.in -> build/tile.xml
bcop'ing : build/tile.xml -> build/tile_options.h/bin/sh: --header=build/tile_options.h: not found
make: *** [build/tile_options.h] Error 127

thesatori@lappie:~/compiz/tile
> ls -Ra
.:
. .. build Makefile plugin.info tile.c tile.xml.in

./build:
. .. tile.xml

thesatori@lappie:~/compiz/tile
>

I imagine that the make command is supposed to generate tile_options.h, as hinted by the output from the make command. However, when the make script checks for the existence of tile_options.h, it is nowhere to be found.

I am sadly no expert in writing Makefiles, so I cannot immediately point out the problem. Anyone have any ideas on how I can proceed?

Thanks in advance :)

Cheers,
TheSatori.

(Edit: This question is also posed in the equally relevant thread (http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?t=5303), in this post (http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showpost.php?p=42870&postcount=108), concerning the installation method I applied, which was mentioned here.)