HintedGrid + gimp
Hi, I read about the hintedGrid Layout and tried it. If I start gimp in float layout, it puts its windows very nicely. When I start in in HintedGrid layout, it is tiled like any other application ... Is this due gimp not setting hints? Or is HintedGrid not able to accomendate gimps hints and therefor does nothing? Regards, Nathan
Excerpts from Nathan Huesken's message of Sun Oct 18 14:06:54 -0600 2009:
If I start gimp in float layout, it puts its windows very nicely. When I start in in HintedGrid layout, it is tiled like any other application ...
Is this due gimp not setting hints? Or is HintedGrid not able to accomendate gimps hints and therefor does nothing?
Hi Nathan, What effect are you looking for? HintedGrid as far as I know attempts to make a grid of similar rectangles as close as possible to a given aspect ratio while resizing by increments asked for by the windows. This might work well for the main image windows, since they are usable in squarish windows, but likely wouldn't work so well for most of the other gimp windows. And yes, the image windows don't seem to set resize hints, so the hinted part wouldn't make any difference. The toolbox and dock, (which do set resize hints) are probably better handled differently, though, e.g. with Layout.IM or one of the other combining layouts. They work best in tall skinny windows, which wouldn't make much sense for *Grid unless you mainly work on vertical banner ads. For some tips, sample configs, and further discussion, see the Gimp section on: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/General_xmonad.hs_config_tips Like image windows, dialog (tool settings) windows don't appear to set resize hints. So even if you tile them, hinted or not won't make a difference. Most of the dialogs don't set properties to automatically float, either, so if you're not using the default manageHook to float /all/ gimp windows, and you do want floating dialogs, you'd need to add them to manageHook as in the tips page (or easier, with isDialog from Hooks.ManageHelpers if you are using darcs xmonad/contrib.) So as far as I can tell, the only windows which would be slightly different in hinted layouts would be the toolbox and dock. But the default floating setup or one of the configs from the tips page will probably work better for you than a single tiling layout, whether hinted or no. Hope that's helpful, regards, -- wmw
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:11:40AM -0600, Wirt Wolff wrote:
Excerpts from Nathan Huesken's message of Sun Oct 18 14:06:54 -0600 2009:
If I start gimp in float layout, it puts its windows very nicely. When I start in in HintedGrid layout, it is tiled like any other application ...
Is this due gimp not setting hints? Or is HintedGrid not able to accomendate gimps hints and therefor does nothing?
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The toolbox and dock, (which do set resize hints) are probably better handled differently, though, e.g. with Layout.IM or one of the other combining layouts. They work best in tall skinny windows, which wouldn't make much sense for *Grid unless you mainly work on vertical banner ads.
I generally use TwoPane for gimp with the toolbox/dock (I have them combined) in the master pane. And I use Meta-H to shrink the main pane significantly. THen I can stack multiple images in the other side. It works fairly well for me, though there are oddities when the current image isn't the on just below the master in the stack. [..]
manageHook to float /all/ gimp windows, and you do want floating dialogs,
I messed around a little bit with this and just left it at float *all* gimp windows and then just sink the two I need -- toolbox/dock and image. I know there are others with way more sophisticated approaches to manage gimp, but this is what works for me as an occasional gimp user. A
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