quenelle@ssiwest.UUCP (Chris Quenelle) (10/11/90)
Since the user community at large seems intent on turning twm into the world's most "all-singing all-dancing" window manager ;-), I thought I'd mention my wish list. (Maybe these are things that you can do, but I just haven't figured out) 1. I'd like to be able to specify a geometry as an action. Meaning "resize to this geometry". I want three functions keys that automatically resize an xterm (for instance) to either 24, 40 or 65 lines long. (There doesn't seem to be a way to do this from within xterm either.) 2. I'd like to be able to dynamically group managed windows. So that after I bind two windows together, they will track each other when dragged across the screen, and iconify/deiconify as a group. There should be an option to label a group with a single icon or a single entry in the icon-manager. This group idea could be extended to arbitrary extremes, that might be why nobody has bothered yet. From within twm, should you be able to create several programs as a group ? Should you be able to bind arbitrary programs under twm-program control ? This seems like a big can of worms. All I really want is to be able to bind two or more windows together from a user-request. I'd use this a lot more than a fancy panner. It seems like most people use a panner to establish multiple "work areas" with different groups of windows. I just want to create the groups explicitly and directly. The reason I'm posting this is because I won't have time to play around with twm for while, and I figured if I could inspire someone else, all the better ;-) If this doesn't sound useful to anyone, then so be it. Are there any really serious reasons why this can't be done ? @---@ @---@ |Chris Quenelle ( X-Rat ) (415) 373-8023| \|/ Supercomputer \.X./ \.X./ |<-- pthread()ed rats ...!uunet!ssi!quenelle | --+-----Systems----- \ / \ / ============================================== /|\ Inc. ==o== ==o== You know you've landed gear-up when it takes full power to taxi.
morreale@bierstadt.scd.ucar.edu (Peter Morreale) (10/11/90)
In article <9010102143.AA05772@ssiwest.com> quenelle@ssiwest.UUCP (Chris Quenelle) writes: > >1. I'd like to be able to specify a geometry as an action. > Meaning "resize to this geometry". > I want three functions keys that automatically resize an xterm > (for instance) to either 24, 40 or 65 lines long. (There doesn't > seem to be a way to do this from within xterm either.) YES!!!! Pretty please!!!! :-) Zooming horizontally doesn't cut it when vi can't handle a window that wide. (due to my preferred font size...) (some of us are die-hards when it comes to editors :-) -PWM -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Peter W. Morreale email: morreale@ncar.ucar.edu Nat'l Center for Atmos Research voice: (303) 497-1293 Scientific Computing Division