[wmx] Resize idea

There have been some complaints on this list in the past about the 
triangular resize handle; I understand that it can cause problems with some 
terminal emulators (although I've never experienced this), and in my opinion 
it's kind of ugly. I have a suggestion for replacing the resize handle: 
middle dragging the tab/titlebar should resize the window (from the top left 
corner - the bottom right corner is held in place). I intend to use this in 
mosquito (the Gnome window manager I'm working on, which was going to be a 
Gnomified wm2 but which is diverging from wm2 all the time), and I wondered 
if anyone would be interested in a similar patch for wmx? It can't go into 
wm2 because it would require more than one mouse button.  :)

Also, as a newbie X programmer I'm wondering why the window manager has to 
reparent the windows that it manages? I can understand this for window 
managers that don't use the shape extension, because it's the easiest way to 
get a border round all four sides of a client window, but couldn't wmx just 
map the client window next to the tab/titlebar and keep it as a sibling of 
the tab/titlebar window? The advantage would be that shaped windows could be 
supported more easily - wmx would not have to shape the parent window to 
match the shape of the client window, so half as many calls would be made to 
the shape extension. I would expect this to improve performance. Also, no 
reparent/unreparent calls would be needed. I don't know how much difference 
this would make to performance. wmx would just have to watch for move/resize 
events on the client windows so that it could keep the tab in the right 
place and the right size, but I think it has to do this anyway (? - no code 
in front of me). So, would it simplify wmx to take the reparenting behaviour 
out?


Michael Rogers


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