feature idea: being able to select multiple windows to resize a window to cover all the selected windows

[imthenachoman]

When you open Exquisite, it shows you all the layouts and windows in each layout.

It would be cool if you could select multiple windows in a layout to resize a window to cover all the selected windows.

Using my layouts as an example:

The 4th one is a 4x4 grid. If I could select the windows starting from 2x2 to 3x3, then Exquisite would resize the window accordingly.

Or, the 2nd one is a 1:2:1 layout. If I could select the 2nd and 3rd column, the window would size to cover both of those.

This could be done by either SHIFT clicking or click + dragging the mouse.

The beauty of this is, we could create a few grid layouts like 4x4, 6x4, 8x4, etc... and then use this feature to dynamically size windows as you need when you need.

[imthenachoman]

To add more details, using the below image:

• You'd start selecting the window labeled 1
• You'd end selecting the window labeled 2
• The end result is your application sizes to take up the windows inside the red box.

[qewer33]

Nice idea, could be doable if I find a way to get modifier keys to work (KWin doesn't provide a direct way to get keyboard inputs from scripts). In the meanwhile, you can take a look at this extension (https://github.com/pudymody/kde-manualtiling), which is a simple extension that only does what you described.

[imthenachoman]

@qewer33 Can it get mouse down and mouse up events? So a user could click and hold on the top left, and then drag to bottom right. Would that work?

I will check out that other extension. Thank you!