xoat/README.md

cerberus

• Designed for wide screens.
• Static tiling; you get just three fixed asymmetric tiles and windows never move automatically.
• Bare minimum EWMH to support panels and simpleswitcher
• A few keyboard controls for moving, focusing, cycling, closing.
• Transient windows and dialogs are centered on parent, not tiled.
• config.h for customization of borders and keys.

The Layout

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|                    |    2    |
|          1         |         |
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|                    |    3    |
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Philosophy

• Asymmetric tiling layouts are more useful than symmetric ones.

  • A master/stack layout is good, but only if the stack is asymmetric.

• Static tiling is more useful than dynamic tiling or floating.

  • Windows moving around without user input is a crime.
  • Having a choice of tiling layouts at run time is distracting.
  • Make the layout choice once at build time and get on with work.
  • Apps that remember their size can handily be placed back in the correct tile.

• Three tiles suffice because:

  • App windows are always one of four types:
    1. Large work-being-done apps
    2. Medium monitoring-something apps
    3. Small background-chat-music apps
    4. Apps people should not use ;-)

• Focus-follows-mouse is annoying.

• 2/3 is a nice fraction.