I like to multitask a lot, so I very often spontaneously move and resize windows while working.
One thing I've always wanted from an email client was a way to adapt my layout while I did this.
The classic layout works very well when I move the window to occupy half my monitor's horizontal space, it gives enough space to the email for readability while still leaving room to move to a different email (or RSS feed).
The vertical layout is ideal for if the window is full screen, as most emails these days are optimized to be viewed on a phone, so keeping the classic layout results in a lot of emails having content along a narrow strip in the middle while a lot of screen space is wasted.
In Epyrus, I constantly find myself changing between different layouts as I do this, and it's rather annoying.
(I should specify that this isn't a complaint about Epyrus, Thunderbird had the same issue, and most other email clients I've tried don't even let you change the layout.)
Is there an extension that already automatically changes the layout depending on screen size?
If not, how can I change the layout via an extension? Is there some API for it?
Change layout depending on window size
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Change layout depending on window size
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Re: Change layout depending on window size
This doesn't answer the question directly, but it's useful when switching Epyrus and other apps from "front and center" mode to "half screen" mode, say when doing a teleconference meeting while actively using other windows at the same time. Sizer by BrianApps is indispensable, alongside my homegrown automatic window sizing utility.PseudoDistant wrote: ↑2024-03-10, 21:40I very often move and resize windows while working ... Is there an extension that automatically changes the layout
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Re: Change layout depending on window size
I actually use a very similar tool.Bilbo47 wrote: ↑2024-03-10, 22:06This doesn't answer the question directly, but it's useful when switching Epyrus and other apps from "front and center" mode to "half screen" mode, say when doing a teleconference meeting while actively using other windows at the same time. Sizer by BrianApps is indispensable, alongside my homegrown automatic window sizing utility.PseudoDistant wrote: ↑2024-03-10, 21:40I very often move and resize windows while working ... Is there an extension that automatically changes the layout
I wrote it myself in Java, and it uses `wmctrl` as a backend.
I stopped using it as much when KDE Plasma added the ability to snap windows around with Meta + dir, but I still occasionally use it.
And if you think Java's bad (I don't, it's one of my favorite programming languages), the original one I made was written in Python (Which I used to use, and now detest).
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