Tiling on multiple monitors (Desk Grid)

[pseud0n]

Hello!

Desk Grid works perfectly on a single monitor. On two, it looks like it calculates based on the geometry of the entire setup, not the current monitor. On a similar note, the F12 terminal opens too high up (partially off-screen) if the primary screen has a lower top than the big screen (in my setup, if I move eDP-1 down, set it to primary and press F12).

Is Desk Grid outdated and should I be using Cortile instead? I tried it but it says that the ‘tile’ command is not found

24.02 Lstredd 6.1.77-2-MANJARO packages up-to-date

[napcok]

Hello,
You can try Cortile or Pygrid.
Mabox scripts (drawgrid, snapwin → renemed to superclick) are written for one monitor.

[zolw]

Hello @pseud0n ,
For the sake of simplicity I set same resolution on both monitors.
(maybe it’s not needed)
Installed ezquake because mabox terminal called by F12 uses
~/.config/mabox/.quake-term
After the first run of quake-term the content of the above file is
1600x434+1600+32
As my secondary monitor is on the left of my primary one and the origo is the leftmost
coordinate so pressing F12 the terminal appears on the right monitor. 32 is the y offset.
You can control the size and position of the ‘F12’ terminal by this .quake-term.

A quick move of the active window can be done to the next / other monitor
by inserting the following section into ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml

    <keybind key="W-C-Down">
     <action name="MoveResizeTo">
    <!-- move to next monitor -->
      <monitor>next</monitor>
     </action>
    </keybind>

Once you are on either of your monitors (either by clicking or moving a window there)
those 9 tiling shortcuts work locally like a charm.

[napcok]

As we spoke about quake-terminal F12… it is easy to resize/ move it to desired position. Use Alt + Left Mouse drag to move, and Alt + RightMouseButton drag to resize. (Those methods of moving/resizing windows works on every other windows also).
Then to save new position as new default just hide/show terminal by hitting F12.

[napcok]

I managed to connect my laptop to an old monitor so I can work on two monitors from time to time. Thus, it may be possible to add support for 2 monitors to superclick (formerly snapwin).

However, I can already see that this will not be a trivial task.

@pseud0n @zolw anyone using more than one monitor, could you please share the output from the command?

xrandr | grep \\bconnected

[zolw]

eDP-1 connected primary 1600x900+1600+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 344mm x 193mm
HDMI-1 connected 1600x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 640mm x 360mm

Or if I don’t care the extra repositioning step after having moved tiled windows between monitors:

eDP-1 connected primary 1920x1080+1600+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 344mm x 193mm
HDMI-1 connected 1600x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 640mm x 360mm

[piquet]

@napcok

xrandr | grep \\bconnected

My output:

$ xrandr | grep \\bconnected
eDP-1 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 344mm x 193mm
HDMI-1 connected 1920x1080+1920+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 477mm x 268mm

[pseud0n]

eDP-1 connected primary 1366x768+0+312 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 309mm x 174mm
HDMI-1 connected 1920x1080+1366+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 476mm x 268mm

[pseud0n]

I found this SO answer in Perl.

Bash version:

eval $(xdotool getmouselocation --shell)
echo mouse $X $Y
while read -r line; do
    info=$(echo $line | awk '{print $3}')
    if [[ $info == primary ]]; then
        info=$(echo $line | awk '{print $4}')
    fi
    read width height x_offset y_offset <<< $(echo $info | awk -F[x+] '{print $1, $2, $3, $4}')
    if (( X >= x_offset && X <= width + x_offset && Y >= y_offset && Y <= height + y_offset )); then
        echo $width $height $x_offset $y_offset
        break
    fi
done < <(xrandr | grep connected)

watch -n 0.1 ./monitor.sh correctly shows the monitor size and offset for me based on mouse position.

The mouse will always be over the window when snapwin is used, right?

I’ll take a look tomorrow I think, see if I can integrate it into snapwin.

[napcok]

I found the same post on stackoverflow
Thanks for the Bash version, it will come in handy.
For now I have flu and fever and my brain is working very slowly, when I get better I will work on it. Hopefully in a few days.

@pseud0n

The mouse will always be over the window when snapwin is used, right?

Yes, exactly.
The script has separate functions for mouse and keyboard actions. The function for the mouse is called clicksnap.

[zolw]

What is the next goal?
wmctrl -l
helps to identify the window (1st column is used) to move / resize. E.g.

xdotool windowmove 0x02c00003 1700 32
xdotool windowsize 0x02c00003 800 300

[pseud0n]

Making progress but not sure how to deal with the taskbar(s).

$ xrandr | grep connected
eDP-1 connected primary 1366x768+1920+787 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 309mm x 174mm
HDMI-1 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 527mm x 296mm

Doesn’t show available area like wmctrl -d does, but that will show entire dimensions of setup.

I guess it’s not great to assume a single dock and subtract from a side.

[napcok]

Updated version of script is shipped with today mabox-tools package update.
Script name is superclick.
Use mb-reset to apply needed changes to openbox rc.xml

mb-reset -c obrcxml

Script seems to work fine only when your monitors are aligned to top. Like on screenshot: