Feature request - rotate grid

[Florian Bruhin]

* Steven Hum <sdothum at gmail.com> [2015-01-19 10:28:51 -0500]:
> One feature I find convenient (coming from bspwm) is the ability to 
> rotate a grid (with value +/- 1 for bi-directional control, of course!) 
> much like the rotate (frame) action. I haven't worked with your object 
> tree enough to know whether this would be simple enough to script -- but 
> I am hoping your rotate frame facility might make this easy enough to 
> implement!

I'm not sure how easy this will be to implement, but I'm sure Thorsten
will comment :) If you have a github account, I suggest opening an
issue at https://github.com/herbstluftwm/herbstluftwm/issues so it
won't get lost :)

> Lastly, one lazy feature would be the ability to "toggle" max for 
> a layout (in a frame), returning to the pre-max layout on the next 
> toggle. I know one can simply set the layout to max but then one needs 
> to cycle back to the original layout. I haven't scripted this because 
> there does not appear to be a way to query the current layout in focus. 

You can use   hc dump '' '@'   to dump the state of the focused frame,
and e.g. sed to get the layout from that:

$ hc dump '' '@' | sed 's/[^ ]* \([^:]*\).*/\1/'
grid

> Perhaps you could add a "frame" object to your object tree.

I started contributing code for that[1]  more than a year ago - but it
was removed some hours later because there were segfaults.

I recently talked to another developer (ypnos) about this, and we
decided to implement it again when the C++ rewrite[2] is merged.

[1] http://git.the-compiler.org/herbstluftwm/log/?h=frame_objects
[2] https://github.com/herbstluftwm/herbstluftwm/tree/winterbreeze

> All in all, appreciate the work you have done on this wm. There are many 
> commands that I have not begun to explore the utility of. But I love the 
> facility you have provided to control herbstluftwm via scripting (much 
> like bspwm)!

Note bspwm was inspired by hlwm ;)
http://herbstluftwm.org/archive/msg00054.html

Florian

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