Placement(1x)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to Placement(1x) — yes, the AfterStep X11 window manager one. Placement is the whole vibe where AfterStep supports several different window placement policies. Some of them are designed to fill free space, and some allow for windows to be placed on top of others. iconic behavior, honestly ✨

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🎀 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS 🎀

• Cascade — windows will be placed in cascading order. That's it, that's the tea. 💅
• Manual — windows must be placed manually. You are the placement algorithm now, bestie. 🫶
• RandomPlacement — windows will be placed randomly (the manpage literally says randomply, and we respect her), in space that is unobstructed by windows that have the AvoidCover attribute set. No cap. 🎲
• SmartPlacement — the most suitable free-space area will be chosen to place the window in. If no such area of sufficient size is found, the window will be placed using the secondary placement strategy, or manually if no secondary strategy is specified. Big brain energy. 🧠✨
• Tile — windows will be tiled in free space. If no space of suitable size is found, then the secondary placement strategy is engaged, or the window will have to be placed manually. This is similar to SmartPlacement, except that suitable space is chosen following direction left-to-right, top-to-bottom, instead of looking for space most fitting the window size (the way SmartPlacement works). Ate. 🔥

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and that's the whole page, babe. this little manual moment is brought to you by the 3rd Berkeley Distribution, AfterStep v.2.2.12, and Placement(1x). no date in the footer, which is very mystery-girl of it, so we're just gonna vibe. mwah 💋