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The Freely Transformable Windows plugin allows windows to be rotated, slanted, and scaled.
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Using Freely Transformable Windows
Freely Transformable Windows gives you the ability to rotate, slant, flip, and grow or shrink windows by scaling them. Unlike resizing a window normally, a scaled window's contents grow and shrink along with the window—text, buttons, and images inside the window will actually appear larger or smaller.
<Control><Shift>Left Click - Rotate or tilt window
<Control><Shift>Right Click - Scale window
<Control><Shift>W,A,S,D - Tilt window up, left, down, right, respectively
<Control><Shift>R - Reset window orientation
<Control><Shift>Q,E - Rotate window counter-clockwise and clockwise, respectively
At this time, you cannot interact normally with transformed windows due to technical limitations. This missing functionality will be implemented once input redirection becomes available in the X server. However, due to recent changes made to the architecture of the plugin, this is technically possible and there is a chance it may be implemented partially.
Configuration
This section contains an explanation of every option available to this plugin, presented in the same order as they appear in CCSM.
Free Transformation
Mouse sensitivity |
How sensitive the transformation should be to mouse movement. |
Snap |
Should the window snap to a certain pattern of angles as it's being transformed? |
Snap Threshold |
The distance between each angle to snap to. |
Helper Options
Helper Circle Color |
The colour of the filled part of the circle when you toggle the axis help. |
Helper Line Color |
The colour of the circle when you toggle the axis help. |
Helper Cross Line Color |
The colour of the crosshair when you toggle the axis help. |
Rotation
Rotation Type |
Always 3D : The rotation of the window should always be on the X and Y Axis |
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Always 2D : The rotation of the window should always be on the Z axis and never the X and Y axis |
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Determine on Click : The rotation axis' will be X and Y if the click is within the region specified by 3D Rotation Percentage, otherwise it will be Z |
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Interchangeable : All 3 rotation Axis' are enabled and as the cursor moves closer to the edge of the window, the X and Y axis' are used less and the Z axis' more |
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3D Rotation Percentage |
How much of the window should be for 3D rotation |
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Auto Zoom |
Zoom out from the window as it is rotated to ensure it does not take up a large screen area |
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Scaling
Scale Mode |
To Center : The window should scale down towards the center |
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To Opposite Corner : The window will scale towards the opposite corner, ALA Resize-Stretch mode |
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Allow negative |
Should windows be scalable until their size is negative? Windows with negative size look inverted. |
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Maintain aspect ratio |
Keep a window's aspect ratio intact when scaling. |
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Minimum scale |
The minimum size a window is allowed to be unless the Allow negative option is enabled. |
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Manual Transformation
Rotation
Rotate increment amount |
How far to rotate per press of a rotation key binding. |
Rotate increment time |
How long it should take for each incremental rotation to finish animating. |
Scaling
Scale increment amount |
How much to grow or shrink a window per press of a scaling key binding. |
Scale increment time |
How long it shoudl take for each incremental scaling to finish animating. |
Misc
Reset animation time |
How long the reset animation should last. |
Helper Options
Helper Circle Color |
The colour of the filled part of the circle when you toggle the axis help. |
Helper Line Color |
The colour of the circle when you toggle the axis help. |
Helper Cross Line Color |
The colour of the crosshair when you toggle the axis help. |
Show 3D Rotation Circle |
Show the 3D rotation area |
Show crosshair |
Show window origin crosshair |
Show input regions |
Show which areas are clickable for the window |
Input Prevention
Prevented Input Window Types |
Which window types to enable input prevention with. Some windows may not behave correctly with this enabled, so you may disable them here. To see how to specify them, see WindowMatching |
Shape input |
The transformed window will have it's input prevented entirely, while still being able to be moved around via click & drag. |
This feature is experimental and may not work correctly.
DBUS
Because of it's generic nature of simply rotating and scaling windows, Freely Transformable Windows can be accessed via DBUS and the ActionSystem:Compiz Action System The Plugins/DBUS:DBUS plugin must be enabled for DBUS control to occur.
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Set the rotation to angles specified |
rotate |
x : x Angle to set rotation to (double) |
y : y Angle to set rotation to (double) |
z : z Angle to set rotation to (double) |
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window : The X Window ID to transform (int) |
Add rotation to a window |
increment_rotate |
x : x degrees to add to rotation (double) |
y : y degrees to add to rotation (double) |
z : z degrees to add to rotation (double) |
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window : The X Window ID to transform (int) |
Set the scale to scales specified |
scale |
x : x Scale factor to scale the window by (double) |
y : y Scale factor to scale the window by (double) |
window : The X Window ID to transform (int) |
Screenshots
Window Rotation With Freewins. |
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