binds for maximizing/fullscreeing windows and raising dock apps

[9noobs]

Hi, I have been using and enjoying this WM. I see there are binds for almost everything.

However, a few things that I can't seem to find are 

- a bind to raise/lower my dockapps bar, I don't know what its called but I refer to the thing containing dockapps on the lower left hand corner of my screen such as wmcpu, wmsystray etc. 

- a bind to full screen or maximize a window fully. So far I am doing this manually via mouse

Anyone know anything or if I can define these behaviours manually?

[Roman Dobosz]

On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 06:02:59 -0700 (PDT)
9noobs <sugondes...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, I have been using and enjoying this WM. I see there are binds for
> almost everything.
>
> However, a few things that I can't seem to find are
>
> - a bind to raise/lower my dockapps bar, I don't know what its called but I
> refer to the thing containing dockapps on the lower left hand corner of my
> screen such as wmcpu, wmsystray etc.

It's called dock.

As for the question, AFAIK there is no way to bind a shortcut for
that, since unlike regular windows dock never get focus. There is no
dedicated one in keyboard shortcut preferences either.

> - a bind to full screen or maximize a window fully. So far I am doing this
> manually via mouse

If you are referring to expanding window on entire screen with
respect of the options for cover/not cover miniwindows and/or dock,
than it can be find in WPrefs under keyboard shortcut preferences
(keyboard icon) and "maximize active window".

If you're referring to fullscreen (so the real thing without titlebar
and other window decorations - just the single thing on the screen)
than you could use wmctrl[1] tool to make that happen, and bind it to
some shortcut either by defining new menu entry and add the keyboard
shortcut, or use xbindkeys[2] to achieve the same without cluttering
wm root menu with it.

HTH.


[1] http://sweb.cz/tripie/utils/wmctrl
[2] https://www.nongnu.org/xbindkeys/xbindkeys.html

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[Carlos R. Mafra]

On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 at 20:06:06 +0200, Roman Dobosz wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 06:02:59 -0700 (PDT)
> 9noobs <sugondes...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi, I have been using and enjoying this WM. I see there are binds for
> > almost everything.
> >
> > However, a few things that I can't seem to find are
> >
> > - a bind to raise/lower my dockapps bar, I don't know what its called but I
> > refer to the thing containing dockapps on the lower left hand corner of my
> > screen such as wmcpu, wmsystray etc.
>
> It's called dock.
>
> As for the question, AFAIK there is no way to bind a shortcut for
> that, since unlike regular windows dock never get focus. There is no
> dedicated one in keyboard shortcut preferences either.

There is, it's called "raise/lower dock" in the keyboard shortcut preferences
panel.

But apparently if you set a key it only raises the dock from behind windows,
it never seems to lower it back again.

[Roman Dobosz]

On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 23:35:21 +0100
"Carlos R. Mafra" <crm...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > As for the question, AFAIK there is no way to bind a shortcut for
> > that, since unlike regular windows dock never get focus. There is no
> > dedicated one in keyboard shortcut preferences either.
>
> There is, it's called "raise/lower dock" in the keyboard shortcut preferences
> panel.

Oh, right! I've overlooked it, since I've never need it :)

> But apparently if you set a key it only raises the dock from behind windows,
> it never seems to lower it back again.

Hm. For me it is working as expected - it raise on the keypress, and
lower it if I press defined keys again.

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[9noobs]

May I ask which distro, branch and version of wmaker your using? 

I am on arch with the latest windowmaker-crm-git variant