sithwm

[ivanovnegro]

^ Nice! The appropriate setup for Malgus.

[dkeg]

Joe would be proud. Nice!

[GekkoP]

Great work, Luke.

[DebianJoe]

*applause from the corner*

[bones]

^ He's alive, ALIVE, I tell you! ;-)

[pidsley]

Oh damn. Now he's really going to be surprised by his mail bomb tomorrow.

[bones]

A new scrot from Cream for sithwm, one of my new favorite stackers:

[DebianJoe]

Sithwm hack of the day:
So, while the background and coloring is part of my "Protest against Dkeg's elegant scrots", this is a way that I've been playing with making sithwm open layouts from the menu. (Menus are bloat & I don't care, this is a useful trick.)

in .sithwmrc ,make cool layouts that you would actually use (side-by-side tiled, right stacks, whatever), and set the menu to provide argvs that include geometry switches. For example, the above looks like this:

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cmd "4-pane" "st -g 500x250+20+20 & st -g 500x250+20+500 & st -g 500x250+830+20 & st -g 500x250+830+500"

...now I have a menu entry called "4-pane" that opens 4 st terms where I told X to put them. Obviously a simple implementation, but could be really cool for setting up menu entries to open commonly used programs where you actually want them.

...or a slightly off-center vertical 2 panel tile.

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cmd "v-tile" "st -g 635x767+1+1 & st -g 719X767+647+1"

Should work with any program that accepts command line geometry setting.

[wuxmedia]

That is actually really pretty Joe.... is that...couldn't be... compton? 8)

[DebianJoe]

That is actually really pretty Joe.... is that...couldn't be... compton? 8)

It's the shadows, man, the shadows!

[machinebacon]

pixel nazi ;)

But yeah, I did something similar too with .xinitrc to start some windows where I want to have them. Gain extra beard points by using xrandr to find out the resolution of the screen and align the windows relative to screen size, not absolute ;)

[dkeg]

excellent joe.
I had actually donesimilar before, a bit different, but same idea. just a quick script in .xinitrc to start 4 terminals at specific geometries.

Nothing like yours with different layouts options though. Cool idea