Tile windows in openbox with pytyler (Page 1 of 2)

sorry for the off-topic but what font are you using? I really like it.
once I go back to openbox from netbook-remix I'll take a look at this, thanks for bringing it up.

it's fontin small caps, you can get it here http://www.josbuivenga.demon.nl/fontin.html

Thanks for this  suggestion. Just what I have been looking for.
A better solution than "tile" for me. Uses screen space very effectively

Hey guys- thanks for the support! This is the developer of PyTyle- I'm open to any comments, suggestions, criticisms, etc.

Thanks! If you think of any, post them here. I've subscribed to the thread so I'll see it.

Sadly, I'm woefully ignorant of #!. I actually hadn't heard of it until I started using Arch (I guess we can sometimes end up in the same places). Is there anyway you could shove me in the right direction for perhaps a write-up/documentation on how to add to #!apps?

Thanks!

Last edited by BurntSushi (2009-09-11 00:01:05)

Gotya- thought you were referring to a package repo or something.

Arch doesn't even come with X

I'll be sure to try out #! when I get some free time. I actually might look into recommending it to friends with older PC's that don't want raw Linux but also don't want the bloat of a normal Ubuntu install.

Last edited by BurntSushi (2009-09-11 02:20:20)

Much slower than a true tiling WM ? How many milliseconds slower ? It's like lightning here.

rsw,

PyTyle will certainly be slower than a normal tiling window manager (by virtue of there being more layers). However, it honest-to-goodness shouldn't be too noticeable (in Openbox). I can't really think of why you're seeing such a lag, but is it possible there are any other programs running that are managing windows? Maybe devilspie?

If you're running PyTyle on a compositor (like KWin or Compiz) with desktop effects enabled, then you'll definitely see some noticeable lag.

This looks excellent, I can't wait to try, except I'm stuck on a mac at the moment.
Just one question, is it two-way - is the layout of a tiled workspace fixed, or can I manually resize windows, and pytile re-sizes everything to fit?  I really like the idea of pekwm's "maximize to fit" or whatever it's called, where you can maximize a window to fill all the space until it bumps into a neighbour.

Hi!
I really like pytyle, and use it a lot. great work!
But when using blender it comes that pytyle steals the hotkeys i want/need to use in blender. E.g. I need Alt+h, but when pytyle is running in background (even in untile-mode) I can't use the combinations.
First I started to reconfigure pytyle, but I'm running out of keys that I can use for tiling. So my next step was to start and kill pytyle through openbox and the rc file. So Alt+a should run pytyle and tile the desktop, Alt+u untile and kill pytyler. Running pytyle is no problem, but how can I tell it to tile only the active desktop from start and how to untile before I kill it? When i just kill it the windows remain tiled, so reset seems to be needed here.
I tried different things like "pytyle -tile.default" but no success until now. that's what i got in the rc file until now:

    <!-- Start Pytyler + kill Pytyler -->
    <keybind key="A-a">
      <action name="Execute">
        <command>pytyle -tyle.default</command>
      </action>
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="A-u">
      <action name="Execute">
        <command>killall pytyle</command>
      </action>
    </keybind>

In short words: how can I use the commands from the pytylerc file in command line?
Any suggestions?

Last edited by Criminal (2010-04-15 08:36:35)

it does???!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

that would solve ALL of my problems with gnome3. (I've been trying it out, I don't really like it that much so far.

I've used pytyle in openbox in the past and love it a lot!