hello all, On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 10:34:05AM +0200, Anselm R Garbe wrote: > On 27 August 2011 00:40, Ladd Hoffman <l...@ipdatatel.com> wrote: > > This patch enables saving tags to disk when dwm exits, > > and loading from disk on startup.
I don't like a wm writing to permanent storage, especially for this. Over time it tends to lead to a mess of permanent (app settings) vs. transient (window position and all) storage as found directly in some apps or through gconfd or the similar crap they have in kde. > > (especially useful when you need to recompile and restart dwm.) > > I think this patch seems quite useful and suggest you should add this > patch to the patches section. > > See http://suckless.org/wiki/ for instructions about how to commit > your changes to the wiki. > > Btw. there are other possibilities to restore the tag state than > persistation to a file. Esp. if your X was restarted your approach > could have weirdo side effects. A better way would be to store the tag > info in a property for each window in unmanage(), which is cleared > during manage() again. This would not lead to such X restart side > effects. This has been implemented already. i posted a 11-line patch doing that: http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1106/8301.html I record tags continuously rather than in unmanage() so that tags are still there in case dwm should crash or when i restart dwm over itself (to switch to a new build) with the respawn patch, also in the above message. BTW., i am not sure which branch i should follow right now. Someone should close or merge the dangling head at rev 1565:ee4aa582320a at http://hg.suckless.org/dwm cheers, -- Benoit Triquet <benoit.triquet at gmail.com> .''`. : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices, surrender your code. `. `' We will add your hardware and software distinctiveness to `- our own. Resistance is futile.
