[xmonad] Partial-width tiling

[Mateusz Kowalczyk]

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.