On 04/27/2014 03:35 AM, Philip DeBoer wrote:

Is there a mode in which tiles do not fill the whole screen width, but allow blank spaces?

For example, I use the ResizableTile layout, but in order to resize windows I need multiple windows open. I would like to be able to resize a window without opening multiple windows.

The use-case is for reading text --- I often find that the line-length is too long, for example on websites or even man pages. A hack is to open an xterm and use that to fill part of the space. A better solution would just fill the empty space with a transparent window (and not require another program to load!). I am not looking for tiling per se, and would be happy just to see my background in the unfilled space.

Is there already a layout that would do this?

Thanks for suggestions! Philip

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If you don't have any other windows which you would like to preserve the size of, you could just float the window and resize it that way. I'm unsure whether a tiling WM is the right thing to be using when you want a scenario without tiling… -- Mateusz K.