Feature Request: Resizing on a predefined grid (in percentage values)

[cookiengineer]

Hey,

first off I wanted to say that i3 is amazing! I've been using it for a couple months now and I love it. The behavior is very predictable and it allows me to increase my productivity a lot! Thank you for your work on this! :)

Today I took the time and wanted to figure out how I can increase my productivity a bit further. I noticed that when it comes to resizing, I usually prefer to have a grid of windows that have the same dimensions, so I am resizing windows with very looooong repeated keypresses until I'm at a specific window size again.

So I took a look at the codebase and the config schema. Currently, it seems that i3 supports only dimensions for resizes in px and pt, is that correct?

To take resizing a bit further, I wanted to ask whether it's possible to have something like a predefined grid that is defined in percentages (so it's easier to apply to different monitor resolutions if you have more than a single monitor), whereas the resize bindings would lead to resizing to the "next" or "prev" dimension that is defined in the grid.

Imagine a config for it like so:

mode "resize" {

    resize_grid_x = 100% 75% 66% 50% 33% 25%
    resize_grid_y = 100% 75% 50% 25%

    bindsym Left resize shrink grid x
    bindsym Right resize grow grid y
    (... etc...)

}

bindsym $mod+x resize grow grid x
bindsym $mod+Shift+x resize shrink grid x

bindsym $mod+y resize grow grid y
bindsym $mod+Shift+y resize shrink grid y

If there would be an additional way to trigger resizing on the grid via the predefined values for the current window, it would allow to very efficiently relayout the screen.

What do you think about this? Is this a good idea?

What would be the necessary steps to implement this?

[Airblader]

I think something like this can be implemented externally using the IPC and would probably favor doing it that way.

[ghost]

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On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 7:54 AM Cookie Engineer ***@***.***> wrote: Hey, first off I wanted to say that i3 is amazing! I've been using it for a couple months now and I love it. The behavior is very predictable and it allows me to increase my productivity a lot! Thank you for your work on this! :) Today I took the time and wanted to figure out how I can increase my productivity a bit further. I noticed that when it comes to resizing, I usually prefer to have a grid of windows that have the same dimensions, so I am resizing windows with very looooong repeated keypresses until I'm at a specific window size again. So I took a look at the codebase and the config schema. Currently, it seems that i3 supports only dimensions for resizes in px and pt, is that correct? To take resizing a bit further, I wanted to ask whether it's possible to have something like a predefined grid that is defined in percentages (so it's easier to apply to different monitor resolutions if you have more than a single monitor), whereas the resize bindings would lead to resizing to the "next" or "prev" dimension that is defined in the grid. Imagine a config for it like so: mode "resize" { resize_grid_x = 100% 75% 66% 50% 33% 25% resize_grid_y = 100% 75% 50% 25% bindsym Left resize shrink grid x bindsym Right resize grow grid y (... etc...) } bindsym $mod+x resize grow grid x bindsym $mod+Shift+x resize shrink grid x bindsym $mod+y resize grow grid y bindsym $mod+Shift+y resize shrink grid y If there would be an additional way to trigger resizing on the grid via the predefined values for the current window, it would allow to very efficiently relayout the screen. What do you think about this? Is this a good idea? What would be the necessary steps to implement this? — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#4275>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AMYM3JNAIWWZZGIKYNV6OBDSSDXJNANCNFSM4UFY4WDQ> .

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[snprajwal]

You can try something like finding 0.25*<your monitor width> and putting that as a variable in your config. You can then use that in the resize commands.