modulexcite/mjolnir.tiling

Add tiling window management powers to your mjolnir

mjolnir.tiling

Add tiling window management powers to your mjolnir.

Features

• Different layouts per space (with this magic)
• Multi-monitor supported
• Custom layouts

Quick start

First up, install Mjolnir if you haven't already.

Then install mjolnir.tiling using luarocks: luarocks install mjolnir.tiling

In your ~/.mjolnir/init.lua:

local tiling = require "mjolnir.tiling"
local mash = {"ctrl", "cmd"}

hotkey.bind(mash, "c", function() tiling.cyclelayout() end)
hotkey.bind(mash, "j", function() tiling.cycle(1) end)
hotkey.bind(mash, "k", function() tiling.cycle(-1) end)
hotkey.bind(mash, "space", function() tiling.promote() end)
hotkey.bind(mash, "f", function() tiling.gotolayout("fullscreen") end)

-- If you want to set the layouts that are enabled
tiling.set('layouts', {
  'fullscreen', 'main-vertical'
})

Updating

To update to the latest mjolnir.tiling, just run: luarocks install mjolnir.tiling

Using custom layouts

You can define your own layouts like so (please see layouts.lua for definition examples:)

tiling.addlayout('custom', function(windows)
  fnutils.each(windows, function(window)
    window:maximize()
  end)
end)

Floating Windows

Using tiling.togglefloat you can toggle whether or not a window that is on your desktop will be included in your tiling calculations. You can optionally pass in a function as a callback to process the window if it was tiled.

-- Push the window into the exact center of the screen
local function center(window)
  frame = window:screen():frame()
  frame.x = (frame.w / 2) - (frame.w / 4)
  frame.y = (frame.h / 2) - (frame.h / 4)
  frame.w = frame.w / 2
  frame.h = frame.h / 2
  window:setframe(frame)
end

hotkey.bind(mash, "f", function() tiling.togglefloat(center) end)

Layouts

These are the layouts that come with mjolnir.tiling:

Name	Screenshot
fullscreen
main-vertical
main-horizontal
rows
columns
gp-vertical
gp-horizontal

Contributing

Yes! Please :)

git clone https://github.com/nathankot/mjolnir.tiling.git
cd mjolnir.tiling
luarocks make <latest .rockspec name>

Contributors

• csaunders
• acmcelwee
• iveney
• mavant
• OrBaruk
• peterjcaulfield

Thanks <3

To-do

• Better documentation
• More layouts
• Allow globally enabling/disabling layouts
• Functions to move windows across spaces
• Event-based tiling, although requires sdegutis/mjolnir#72

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Nathan Kot

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.