I rarely use the mouse functionality of the dwm bar and wouldn't miss it. I would kind of miss the dwm bar if it went away, simply because I'd have to find another solution.
Jamie On 17 Nov 2012 13:42, "Nick" <suckless-...@njw.me.uk> wrote: > Quoth Anselm R Garbe: > > -> is there anyone who uses the mouse functionality of the dwm bar > > right now? Could you live without it? > > I do use it sometimes, but could live without it. No strong > preferences. > > > I barely use the mouse for the dwm bar and would be in favour for > > removing the bar altogether from dwm. Instead I would output the > > current dwm state to stdout which could be used by a different program > > like sbar for input. > > Really? I like that the bar is managed by dwm, 'cos I trust dwm, and > it seems like a reasonably OK place to do such drawing. So long as > there was a widely used, reasonable way of doing things, which ends > up looking and working like dwm currently does, I don't really mind. > > > But I wouldn't add an interface to dwm to change > > the tags through X props or some other command interface (like stdin > > processing) to allow other programs to amend the dwm tags. Good old > > key commands would be enough for me. > > Yes, good; sensible chap. > > Good to hear from you again Anselm. > > Nick > >