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I'm a Cisco CCIE and use GNS3 for network simulation. I can have 20+ putty sessions open at any one time and would like to be able to be able to see them all at the same time, which on my laptop requires the use of tiny fonts. When you're watching for logging activity its fine, you just want to know if something has happened, but when you go and try to find out what happened it gives you a headache unless you reconfigure the terminal font.
Does anyone know if any of the desktops support the ability to automatically resize the window that has focus, and then return it to its previous state when it loses focus.
Or a hack that can be used to do this?
I'm fairly agnostic to desktops, using Mint17 with Cinnamon at present but I'm open to sugestions.
Distribution: Void, Linux From Scratch, Slackware64
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Doing this would not be the job of the desktop/window manager/toolkit it would be up to the individual application to decide what to donwhen it gets the focus, so short answer is probable no, but maybe one of the tiling window managers could simulate this?
I'd try i3 or dwm -- then write something like when foucs then give dimentions, if not focus then give dimentions... using the apt name what will have control of the window.
i3 has some system calls it looks like that maybe able to figure out how to get that to work.
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