imaginary(?) window manager feature

[Jeremy Fowler]

Maybe give compwiz with xgl a try. Still pretty bleeding edge, no
official release so you have to download from CVS. There are several
wikis out there to help you get started.

Some VERY cool stuff though...

Check out this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgNxlb2fgiQ

More info:
http://en.opensuse.org/Compiz
http://en.opensuse.org/Xgl


-----Original Message-----
From: kclug-bounces at kclug.org [mailto:kclug-bounces at kclug.org] On Behalf
Of David Nicol
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 11:44 AM
To: kulua-l at googlegroups.com; kclug
Subject: imaginary(?) window manager feature

So I have been experimenting with alternatives to lwm, which is
pleasantly out-of-the-way and allows me to run KDE kicker for a "task
bar"

What I want is a wm with a particular twist on a tiling feature : a way
to dock windows to each other so that the bar between them can be moved
back and forth, resizing both (or all) of the so-connected frames.

Is anyone aware of a wm that can do that?

There are "docking" features in various wm's task-bar kind of things,
which this idea is pretty close to; it would allow arbitrary windows to
dock with each other, (and also undock of course); so I could for
instance dock all my xload windows to each other and have a "raft" of
xloads that would raise/lower, cycle, etc as a unit.

I had this idea after experimenting with ratpoison again yesterday.
Ratpoison allows
splitting windows in half either horiz of vert but does not support (at
least not without reading the whole instructions) splitting windows
somewhere other than half, or mousing the dividing line up/down or
left/right.

thoughts?

happy new year
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