Dear all,
Is there a way to change the size of a window to a certain percentage of its parent container? I'd like shortcuts to swap between a window width of 70%/30% and 30%/70% of the parent container. I've only come across the resize grow/shrink commands, but those don't take into account the current size.
best regards, Tom
Here's my workaround for floating windows to resize window to 400x800px:
for_window [title="Tasks.*"] floating enable; resize shrink width 10000px; resize grow width 400px; resize shrink height 10000px; resize grow height 800px;
Thanks for your response, Michael!
I wrote the following very simple script (pardon my language, it's my first attempt at python):
import i3
import sys
targetwidth = float(sys.argv[1])
# get currently focused window
current = i3.filter(nodes=[], focused=True)
currentsize = current[0]['percent'] * 100;
d = int(targetwidth - currentsize)
if d>0:
i3.resize("grow width" + str(d) + " px or " + str(d) + " ppt");
else:
i3.resize("shrink width" + str(-d) + " px or " + str(-d) + " ppt");
While this works nicely, I'm confused by the px and ppt syntax. The manual states the following:
resize <grow|shrink> <direction> [<px> px] [or <ppt> ppt]
... The optional pixel argument specifies by how many pixels a floating container should be grown or shrunk (the default is 10 pixels). The ppt argument means percentage points and specifies by how many percentage points a tiling container should be grown or shrunk (the default is 10 percentage points).
The way I understand this, is that for a tiling container, the px argument will be ignored and vice versa. This however does not seem to be the case.
i3-msg resize grow width 5 px
Grows my tiling window by what appears to be 5%.
i3-msg resize grow width 5 ppt
Does not have any effect
While if I use
i3-msg resize grow width <anynumber> px 5 ppt
anynumer seems to be ignored.
Perhaps this could be clarified in the user manual?
The syntax of the resize command already is clarified in the git version: http://build.i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#resizingconfig
Correct me if I'm wrong, but is the explanation in the manual compatible with the fact that "i3-msg resize grow width 5 px" grows a tiling window by 5 ppt?
Well, you are sending a wrong command, so behavior is somewhat undefined (preferably it should error out clearly, though). In case you feel strongly about this, feel free to submit a patch to http://cr.i3wm.org/ or file a bug report at http://bugs.i3wm.org/
As you figured out, there is currently no way to do that (as of i3 v4.4).
You can write a simple script which uses the IPC interface (see http://i3wm.org/docs/ipc.html) and then sends the necessary commands based on the current percentages.
Asked: 2013-02-01 08:50:30 +0000
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Last updated: Sep 30 '14
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