Re: [STUMP] Flipping heads in group to groups in head!

[Mehul Sanghvi]

On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 04:17, Mikael Jansson <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 05/14/2011 04:31 AM, Mehul Sanghvi wrote:
>> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 07:37, Mikael Jansson <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Heya,
>>>
>>> I want to keep a group visible on one of my monitor at all times and just
>>> change the group of my main screen. Typically the always-visible-group is
>>> for IRC, documentation and similar.
>>>
>>> The way StumpWM works right now is to keep all heads and associated frames
>>> per group.  What I suggest is to flip it around, such that each head has a
>>> list of groups, independent of each other.
>>>
>>> Say you have a 3-head setup with the groups
>>>
>>>  h1:h1g1 h2:h2g1 h3:h3g1
>>>
>>> where hNgM is head N's group M. Initially, groups couldn't be moved between
>>> heads, although that would probably be easy to add support for.
>>>
>>> So: When any frame on h1 has focus and you do 'gselect 3', the new layout
>>> will be
>>>
>>>  h1:h1g3 h2:h2g1 h3:h3g1
>>>
>>> This is a super-set of the current behaviour, which could be emulated by
>>> gluing heads together so gselect would change groups on all heads glued
>>> together with the current.  Say you have h2 and h3 glued together and then
>>> issue gselect 4.  You'll get
>>>
>>>  h1:h1g3  h2:h2g4  h3:h3g4
>>>
>>> with h1's group still at 3 after the previous command.
>>>
>>> Comments?
>>>
>>
>>
>> What would be needed to get this support into StumpWM ?
>> As far as I understand it its not possible to get it done in stumpwm.
>>
>
> It would require changes more or less everywhere.
>
> I sent out the idea to get feedback on whether the design is sound or not.
>
> -- Mikael
>

There is a window manager called Musca which was derived from
ratpoision and dwm.
It has support for groups for each head, dynamically creating a group
for each head.

I've not used the window manager, just read about it, but might be
worth looking at for
the dynamic grouping related code.

Just a thought.


-- 
Mehul N. Sanghvi
email: address@hidden