How to maximise a window horizontal or vertically?

Question

In awesome, what key binding can you use to maximise a window (in floating mode, of course) so that it maximise in just the horizontal or just the vertical direction?

I know that mod4 + m will maximise it fully in both directions so I kind of assume it will be possible to do a mapping to just one direction.

awesome v3.5.1 (Ruby Tuesday)
• Build: May 28 2013 18:46:22 for x86_64 by gcc version 4.8.0 (mockbuild@buildvm-23.phx2.fedoraproject.org)
• Compiled against Lua 5.1.4 (running with Lua 5.1)
• D-Bus support: ✔

But that is an ancient version! Yes, but this is on CentOS 7 where compiling newer versions of Awesome is a PITA. This one works for me just as it is.

score 10 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 06 '17 at 11:52

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By default there is no such key binding (in 3.5.1, see other answer for 4.1). But you can create one. Use this snippet (or better add the key binding to your existing configuration) for your rc.lua file:

clientkeys = awful.util.table.join(
  awful.key({ modkey }, "F7",
    function(c) c.maximized_horizontal = not c.maximized_horizontal end),
  awful.key({ modkey }, "F8",
    function(c) c.maximized_vertical   = not c.maximized_vertical end),
)

It assigns horizontal and vertical maximization to mod-F7 and mod-F8, respectively.

edited Sep 06 '17 at 11:52

serv-inc

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answered Jul 31 '12 at 07:30

Marco

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Super. It all worked but I had to remove the comma at the end of the last but one line. – Sardathrion - against SE abuse Jul 31 '12 at 07:41

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

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Since awesome version 4.1 this is Mod+Ctrl+M (vertical) and Mod+Shift+M (horizontal) per default.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

Stephen Rauch

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answered May 23 '17 at 11:51

exic

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Thanks. I updated my question with the version number. I would leave the answer (maybe saying that for newer version) as it is a useful one to know. – Sardathrion - against SE abuse May 23 '17 at 12:26

How to maximise a window horizontal or vertically?

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