Minimal tiling

[hideov]

Hi,
I tried reading the man pages and I can't seem to find an option to map keys (say Super + directional keys) to minimally tile windows. I'm thinking of something like resizing and arranging the windows on the top half, bottom half, left half or right half of the current screen.

I am aware of the KeyWinArrangeXY commands, which get me almost there, it would just need some windows resizing before hand.

Any chance this already exists or could be implemented?

Cheers

[gijsbers]

How would you define "minimally tile"?
Doesn't exist yet. Could be implemented.
Did you look into icewm's MiniIcons?
You could also write a script using wmctrl
and/or xdotool to do what you want?

[hideov]

Thanks for the speedy answer! By "minimal" I meant that I am not looking for (what I perceived as) advanced tiling functionality like splitting the screen in a grid with multiple (> 2) "cells", but rather just to resize the window to either "full height x half width" or "half height x full width", and then arrange them at the left / right or top / bottom parts of the screen.

Thanks for the pointers, I'll look into MiniIcons and scripting and report if I get it done without requiring changes to IceWM.

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After some playing with wmctrl and xdotool I came up with the attached script that does what I want (though not very elegantly): tile.sh

I had to hardcode the height in pixels of my toolbar.

I added it to my PATH, chmod +x'd it, and then configured my .icewm/keys file to include

key "Super+Right" tile.sh e
key "Super+Left" tile.sh w
key "Super+Up" tile.sh n
key "Super+Down" tile.sh s

It'd be nice to have this functionality natively (it should be possible since wmctrl should be directly interfacing with IceWM as far as I understand), but my solution does it for me. Thanks again for the pointers!

[cheapy]

antiX has a set of WinGrid shell scripts that do exactly what you are asking for in /usr/local/bin

Keys entries:

Wingrid

key "Ctrl+1" wingrid-left.sh
key "Ctrl+2" wingrid-right.sh
key "Ctrl+3" wingrid-top.sh
key "Ctrl+4" wingrid-bottom.sh
key "Ctrl+5" wingrid-topleft.sh
key "Ctrl+6" wingrid-topright.sh
key "Ctrl+7" wingrid-bottomleft.sh
key "Ctrl+8" wingrid-bottomright.sh
key "Ctrl+9" wingrid-maximize.sh
key "Ctrl+0" wingrid-close.sh

[cheapy]

I hacked together wingrid programs to grow, shrink or move/resize a quadrant sized window in the center of the screen in case anyone is interested in those as well.

wingrid-new4.zip

[reinstallgentoo]

It's surprising to see this issue as I expected the same functionality as OP.
I have xfwm4 (xfce) setup to manually tile windows with "Super + w/a/s/d" (in case xfwm4's automatic tiling is insufficient).
Alongside the unsolvable focus issue this is a deal-breaker, otherwise icewm would be perfect for my needs.
Thank you regardless.

IceWM 1.6.2 (default)

[cheapy]

The WinGrid scripts allow you to move/resize in one motion the current window to one or two of 4 quadrants as the OP asked for, and I added recently a 5th centered window at the same quadrant sized, in addition to Shrink and Grow keys to quickly resize the active window. The normal IceWM functions like show desktop, roll up, roll down, maximize, minimize, restore, and full vertical all still work. Those changes are included in the recently release antiX19 base and full versions, both 32 and 64 bit.

Yes, It would be great if that functionality were included in IceWM, and if that was being done I would suggest to make that and WinArrange available from the keys file so the same functionality can be assigned to multiple keys for people with different keyboard types, ie some people don't have a numeric pad sometimes, or all the time.

[cheapy]

The new TitleBar menu "Tile" functions should provide the op's requested functionality quite nicely if clicking the requested option from the menu is acceptable instead of driving them from mapped key shortcuts.

[fvirdia]

Oh, interesting! I will check it out! Is this a very recent release? Should I build from source to test it?

[cheapy]

I tested it by compiling from source originally, but it's now included in antiX21 if you have all updates applied. Not sure what other distros might already include it.

[cheapy]

What a GREAT enhancement! I've been using it all the time. For example to drag a bunch of individual things between programs I just tile each temporarily to half the screen, drag all the objects, and F10 back to Maximize when done.

[prg318]

It would be nice to see quick-tile functionality in icewm. I've created a modified script from @hideov 's original tile.sh script with a few icewm bindings:

https://xannode.com/tile.sh.txt

Something internal to icewm would be more ideal, since things like titlebar height and border padding wouldn't need to be manually defined. Would love to see this implemented

[gijsbers]

Is this the same as Tile submenu, which tiles a single window?
In that case only keybindings need to be provided?

[prg318]

Is this the same as Tile submenu, which tiles a single window? In that case only keybindings need to be provided?

Yup! The tile submenu does exactly my modified tile.sh script does (but better), but it's not keyboard mappable at the moment