[RP] Re: resize patch

[Henrik Enberg]

Emilio Lopes <address@hidden> writes:

> Henrik Enberg wrote:
>
>> Jonathan Walther <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> > I would modify your suggestion to: if the resize-unit is set with
>> > defresizeunit, then use it, otherwise use the resize-unit property set
>> > on the window itself.
>
>> But what windows resize_inc hints should it use?
>
> I would suggest the one of the current window.
>
>> We have to resize every window ratpoison manages everytime a resize
>> is done.
>
> Not every window. In most cases I would say 2 or 3. It's not (much)
> more than in case of splitting or removing a frame.

We have to resize every window in every adjacent frame in the direction
we do the resize and all windows in the current frame.

> In another mail Henrik Enberg wrote:
>
>> Emilio Lopes <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> > When you split a window contanining an xterm you are indeed resizing
>> > this xterm. Apparently one can't resize xterms to some arbitrary size,
>> > only to multiples of the font size. If you open two xterms with huge
>> > fonts and split the display you'll note a gap between the windows
>> > because of this `property'. So it seems to me that Ratpoison already
>> > does the right thing in such cases. But maybe I'm missing something
>> > here...
>
>> It continues to do the right thing.  The resize command resizes the
>> frames and then makes the windows as big as possible within the bounds
>> of the frame.  It always obeys the windows resize_inc hints.
>
> I think this is a reasonable behaviour: when asked to resize a window,
> Ratpoison uses the resize hint of the current window. Other windows,
> which may be influenced be the resize operation, are made as large as
> possible, just as you stated above.

This would require a rewrite of the split commands to make any sense.
They just split the frame in two without use of the resize_inc hints, so
if we'd resize using the hints there would still be a gap between the
window edge and the frame edge.

I don't really know how to design that well.  If we split two windows
only one can get the correct size, and that size would only be right
for that window, not the other windows in that frame.

There really isn't any way to get rid of small gaps between windows,
becuse they will hardly ever be a case where sizes and screen
resolution is is evenly divisible.

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