78 lines
2.4 KiB
Markdown
78 lines
2.4 KiB
Markdown
xoat
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*X Obstinate Asymmetric Tiler*
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* Designed for wide screens, including multi-head support.
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* Static tiling; you get just three fixed tiles and windows never move automatically.
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* Bare minimum EWMH to support panels and [simpleswitcher](https://github.com/seanpringle/simpleswitcher)
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* A few keyboard controls for moving, focusing, cycling, closing, and finding windows.
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* Transient windows and dialogs are centered on parent, not tiled.
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* Splash screens and notification popups are displayed as requested, not tiled.
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* config.h for customization of borders and keys.
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### The Layout
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### Philosophy
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* Asymmetric tiling layouts are more useful than symmetric ones.
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* A master/stack layout is fine but only if the stack is itself asymmetric.
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* Static tiling is more practical than dynamic tiling or floating.
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* Windows moving and resizing without user input is bad.
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* Having a choice of tiling layouts at run time is distracting.
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* Apps that remember their size can handily be placed back in the correct tile.
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* Three tiles suffice because:
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* App windows are always one of four types:
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1. Large work-being-done apps
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2. Medium monitoring-something apps
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3. Small background-chat-music apps
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4. Apps people should not use ;-)
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* Keyboard controls generally preferred over the mouse, when practical.
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* Faster. Muscle memory.
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* Click-to-focus model preferred over focus-follows-mouse.
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* FfM means mentally keeping track of the mouse or warping the pointer around.
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* CtF is harder to get wrong and makes it easy to forget about the mouse for some tasks.
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* 2/3 is a nice fraction.
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### Stuff Removed
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Some elements that proved to be the wrong direction for xoat have been removed.
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* Tags have been replaced with the snapshot/rollback mechanism.
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* Tags were a way to group and raise windows en-masse, but they were fiddly to use.
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* Snapshot allows the freedom to mess windows up then quicky revert to a known state.
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* Some EWMH desktop atoms have been dumped as surplus to requirements.
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### config.h
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All customization happens in config.h. See in-line comments there.
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**Note**: config.h is tracked! Use a local git branch to protect any customization.
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