tiling should also resize to a quarter of the desktop

[Jérôme]

Moving a window to a border of the screen makes the window to be resized in order to fit the half of the desktop.

It would help to have the window resized to a quarter of the desktop when it is dragged to a corner of the screen (like the KDE behaviour).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: xfwm4 4.10.0-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Oct 21 15:49:27 2012
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.1)
SourcePackage: xfwm4
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Jérôme (jerome-bouat)]

KDE is providing such feature. When the window bar is dragged on a corner of the screen then the window is resized to a quarter of the screen, on the side of the corner.

KDE supported corners : top left, top right, bottom left and bottom right.

I think this is an intuitive and useful feature which doesn't make the window manager bloat a lot.

[Stepan-d (stepan-d)]

I've started implementing this feature. I think that I will have patch soon (few hours) because I'm only testing it now.

[Stepan-d (stepan-d)]

Created attachment 4840
Corner tiling patch for latest git xfwm4

Corner tiling patch for latest git xfwm4.
It is first version, so there could be bugs.

[Stepan-d (stepan-d)]

Created attachment 4841
Corner tiling patch for latest git xfwm4

New version. Bugfix: Respect panel and other widget on screen.

[Stepan-d (stepan-d)]

Will this feature be implemented in some Xfwm realease?

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

markins as wishlist, per request on #ubuntu-bugs

[Simon Steinbeiß (ochosi)]

*** Bug 8767 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Steve Dodier-Lazaro (sidi)]

I was informed that this feature is part of the latest Xfwm release. I'm closing the report as FIXED. If you think there's something incorrect or missing, please re-open it!

[Sean Davis (bluesabre)]

This bug was fixed in the package xfwm4 - 4.11.3-0ubuntu1 (but not included in the debian changelog)

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xfwm4 (4.11.3-0ubuntu1) vivid; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.
    - Fix maximizing vetically or horizontally tiled windows. LP: #1397922
    - Revert "Experiment with button events." LP: #1394439
    - Use source indication in activate window. LP: #1292122
    - Determine the maximum host name length correctly. LP: #1233107
  * Drop 0001-fix-fullscreen-qt4-behavior-bug-8563.patch,
    02-remove-unused-maximize-button.patch, fixed upstream
 -- Jackson Doak <email address hidden> Sun, 15 Feb 2015 06:24:16 +1100