FeelWindowBox(1x)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, meet FeelWindowBox 💅 — she's the one who decides where certain types of windows get to live, based on desk, window attributes, window size, etc. Think of her as the bouncer for your window placement 🫶

She's especially useful for xinerama setups, where you absolutely do not want windows getting dropped in the cursed no-man's-land between screens. not the vibe. never the vibe. 💀

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🎀 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS 🎀

• Area WxH+X+Y — this defines the confining region of a WindowBox. it's giving "this is your zone, stay in it" 🦋
• Desk desk — limits the effects of this WindowBox to the specified desk. one desk only, no wandering 👑
• FirstTry SmartPlacement|RandomPlacement|Tile — the strategy to use while placing the window. The FirstTry strategy will attempt to place the window in empty space only. 🧚

See Also: Window Placement types for further details.

• MaxHeight height — places restrains on what size window could be placed in this area. (yes, "restrains", that's the word the page uses, we're keeping it ✨)
• MaxLayer max_layer — limits the effects of the WindowBox to windows with a layer value that falls in range.
• MaxWidth width — places restrains on what size window could be placed in this area.
• MinHeight height — places restrains on what size window could be placed in this area.
• MinLayer min_layer — limits the effects of the WindowBox to windows with a layer value that falls in range.
• MinWidth width — places restrains on what size window could be placed in this area.
• ReverseOrder — this will reverse the order in which the Cascade and Tile strategies are applied, making it Right-to-left, bottom-to-top. plot twist energy 🔥
• ReverseOrderHorizontal — FIXME: add proper description here. 😭 (not me, that's literally what the page says, i'm just the messenger)
• ReverseOrderVertical — FIXME: add proper description here. 🙈 (same, bestie, same)
• ThenTry RandomPlacement|Cascade|Manual — the backup strategy to use when there is no suitable empty space. like, plan B but make it ✨architecture✨

See Also: Window Placement types for further details.

• VerticalPriority — Cascading and Tiling will be done in Vertical direction first. vertical girlies rise up 💜
• Virtual — defines that the area is in virtual coordinates.
• WindowBox "windowbox_name" — starts a WindowBox definition. ~WindowBox ends it. open the box, close the box, iconic 🌸
• XSpacing — FIXME: add proper description here.
• YSpacing — FIXME: add proper description here.

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This is a whole new thing to allow better window placement policy 🫶:

WindowBox   "some_name"
    Area   WxH+X+Y
    Virtual
    MinWidth        width
    MinHeight       height
    MaxWidth        width
    MaxHeight       height
    FirstTry        SmartPlacement|RandomPlacement|Tile
    ThenTry         RandomPlacement|Cascade|Manual
    VerticalPriority
    ReverseOrder
    Desk        desk
    MinLayer    min_layer
    MaxLayer    max_layer ~WindowBox

📢 heads up bestie: note that the old SmartPlacement/RandomPlacement has been coopted to be used for the Default windowbox. no cap.

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and that's the whole page, mwah 💖 she's from the 3rd Berkeley Distribution, AfterStep v.2.2.12, and she is — say it with me — the AfterStep X11 window manager's finest. slay, periodt, go place some windows responsibly 👑💅