WindowSizer was just released, a tiling window manager for Microsoft Windows: It picks up where the Tile Windows command leaves off. Useful for viewing multiple application windows. Resizing one window resizes others to maintain a no gap, no overlap efficient workspace. Swap window positions in arrangement with drag and drop. Save common work arrangements to bring back when you like.
I’ll have to try this out since this is what i normaly do manualy. Sounds a lot like the BeOS replicant deal which was pretty slick. Really wish they had some screen shots so i could see if it does as i think it does before trying it.
what was considered to be an obsolete way of managing windows is now gaining in popularity.
If you click on the features section their are some, but you can’t click on them and see larger ones.
Its alright, but its no Expose
“what was considered to be an obsolete way of managing windows is now gaining in popularity.”
huh? which OS did use tiling window managers and now thinks that it’s obsolete?
it’s the other way round in my opinion, or why did you think MacOS implemented Expose?
“Its alright, but its no Expose
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Yea it would be sweet to see a programme that you can just move into the corner of the screen and bam
This would a nice feature on the Mac, maybe an add on for Expose.
Expose is not the same thing as tiling the windows for organization of your workspace.
and Windows 1.0 had windows that could not overlap, in windows 2.0 that was totally gone and overlaping windows have been the default method of managing a workspace since on the windows side and have always been the way of managing a workspace on the mac.
I immediately thought of Ion when I saw this.
http://modeemi.fi/~tuomov/ion/
I guess it’s worth mentioning this previous OSnews story in case readers missed it. Which mentions similiar window managers.
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6958
I’m glad there’s a trial version of WinderSizer since the registered one isn’t free like Ion.
Seems like a combo of the (window level) advantages of spatial Gnome, with the flexibility of multiple desktops borrowed from *nix.
I want this window to always open right here. Except when I’m operating under that schema.
I like.
Thanks for the feedback. I’ve added more screenshots so you can see what the idea is more clearly.
It is indeed like Windows 1.0, but now we can do tiled
windows on a 24-inch 2048×1572 display. Doing tiled windows
on a 12-inch CGA at 640×200 sucked, but tiled windows on
today’s hardware might be nice.
It looks pretty nice and certainly worth a try. I wish him well.
Very impressive… Without a doubt.
MS will likely do this themselves in a future version. In some ways they already did this once before, not exactly the same but close enough.
You may find out shortly how close MS thinks it is; Their lawyers may be sending you a letter.
I don’t know about you guys, but I usually have four or five apps running at the same time and even running at very high resolutions on a single monitor, tiling them would make them all useless. I’d be scrolling left,right, up and down. No fun. I’d say buy another monitor
Now if they only added the possibility of having tabbed windows, like in ION or FluxBox, so that your desktop doesn’t get cluttered when you have lots of IE and Word (or sowriter) windows open. Then it would be a really great thing, I think.
“huh? which OS did use tiling window managers and now thinks that it’s obsolete?”
Oberon System 3 (around since early Amiga days) used this system. There is also a window manager for Linux which uses it, however, I hate it (it’s all keyboardy and has obscure useability, it’s not just click, resize, and drag like this one or Oberon’s)
I’m looking for something like this for Linux — which keeps the current window style (KDE’s plastic) and otherwise works by just clicking and dragging (not some keyboard shortcuts, though if they are also there I don’t mind, but will never use them).
All I want is what I have, look-n-feel and useability and so on, but also with the ability of “Resizing one window resizes others to maintain a no gap, no overlap efficient workspace”. This should be a checkbox on a KDE Pref.
Erik
i installed it and while its able to arrange windows i cant seem to get that fabled effect of resizeing one to resize all to work on win2k. it acts just like tile here. that is unless there is some features disabled in the trail version…
I don’t know about you guys, but I usually have four or five apps running at the same time and even running at very high resolutions on a single monitor, tiling them would make them all useless. I’d be scrolling left,right, up and down. No fun. I’d say buy another monitor
What do you do then? Click between the windows? Just asking 😉 I guess a decent tiling window manager should have virtual screens so you could, say, run one app maximised, two tiled on another screen, etc.
I think you need a bigger monitor then. I think its clear the people interested in this are those with bigger monitors. I have a 21 inch running at 1600×1200 and i can do as this says and use apps just as they should be. to have 2 browsers windows open would be no problem with this. But as is, a browser, itunes, AIM and few other things fit nicely without overlap and require no more scrolling then if i didn’t do this. Currently though things loose their spot so easily, so having an active system for this is a good thing.
I don’t know much about expose but i belive it auto places windows in spots, thats not good if that is how it does it. This way is better since they end up were you want them.
this is junk. it seems that it only works nicely with .panes files
i cant set up existing windows with it and have that be locked into the system. i can only load a .panes file and then it will handle the windows opend by that file.
nice idea but not even close to the bare system of what ion can show for. i dont see this as worth any money at all…
i use allSnap to approximate this behavior. A simple google search result set will show a few places to download it.
http://www.google.com/search?q=allsnap
basically it puts hooks into the system to allow you to resize windows along a grid. i change the default option to 10 pixels. the other nice feature is that you can have it ‘snap’ to the edge of other windows while you’re resizing or moving them.
i find this more useful than a full window manager because there are only a few occasions when i like to have windows lined up nicely. other than that, the program doesn’t get in the way. it also makes it easy to line windows up on the edge of the screen.
try it out, you may find it worth it!
I found it helpful to have .panes configurations for specific tasks, like internet searching or uploading photos to my web site. Good luck!
That my question was modded down.
Maybe I should rephrase – how much do I have to pay OSNews to get a front page article to advertise my software?
As for function – $20 to hook WinAPI and enumerate HWNDs? Are you frigging kidding me?