gridlines like the nview option in windows

[dlgandalf]

I have a 24" screen. Back in the old black clouded days, I was able to use gridlines in windows to make my bigscreen behave like dualscreen, without the usual dual-screen disadvantage when watching a movie.

I believe this should be handled in a WM?

What do you guys think? It may not be eye-candy, but I believe compiz should be the swiss army knife of WM's

ps
please don't say I should take ratpoison or ion3 WM's

[b0le]

I'm not sure what you mean by gridlines, but if you manually set the outputs, you can have effectively 2 monitors (when it comes to maximizing, etc)

[dlgandalf]

please explain some more, because it sounds like what I'm looking for.

btw, gridlines are a nView specific feature it allows you to "grid" your monitor and thus partition your screen so you could indeed maximize your app-window to a specific grid part.

[b0le]

In ccsm->general options->display settings you can manually set outputs (which are treated like seperate monitors then)

[adamk]

As an example, if you have a single 1280x1024 monitor and want to split it into four equal viewports, I believe the the following is correct.

640x512+0+0
640x512+640+0
640x512+0+512
640x512+640+512

Mind you, even your panels and docks will obey those settings :-)

Adam

[dlgandalf]

well then, that would be my feature req.
-Making it possible that the cube will stay one big one (already possible)
-dock and panel stay stretched
-making a extra button or shortcut that would maximize the window to the current grid

and probably a lot more things

[dlgandalf]

little bump :monkey:

[b0le]

-dock and panel stay stretched

I don't think this is possible, unless it was handled by another plugin, rather than modifying the outputs (though I am not sure on how this works)

-making a extra button or shortcut that would maximize the window to the current grid

Extra buttons are relatively easy to do (I wrote up some patches that do it for g-w-d (and it would be similar for emerald), and jasper (my wip decorator) supports such things by design)

[dlgandalf]

Well I've played long enough to know it's not going to work with the output-option tampering

but I don't see any problem programming-wise with letting compiz split the desktop in whatever the user wants (say 1 left-side and 1 right- ) . If the user has a window on the right side of the desktop and the maximize (or a new button next to the minimize button. ) is being pressed, It will only maximize to the right half of the screen.

Has anyone got good reference on how to make plugins, because I think it's time I started tinkering myself.

[dlgandalf]

Has anyone got good reference on how to make plugins, because I think it's time I started tinkering myself.

I'm sorry I found enough about it on this forum..