Hi, this is my first post to this list, so thank you, arg, for dwm, really great&usefull environment ! :) > Hi there, > > I realize that dwm is feature complete and that I develop some > kind of love-hate relationship to client titlebars. > > Hence I plan to replace the client titlebars with a > new color tuple instead: > > BORDERBGCOLOR (border of unfocused window) > BORDERFGCOLOR (border of focused window) > > I know that there are several people who definately like the > client title windows, but I tried to live without them several > times, and noticed what I really miss is more a really obvious > focus indicator (which can be achieved with a very shiny border > color for focused windows).
I've used dwm for a few months, and I found unfocused clients' title bars really annoying. Every release I hack draw.c to make they disappeared. And yes -- I use border as focus indicator. I make it 2px wide. > > Also after using the new nmaster %u indicator in the TILESYMBOL > I conclude it's useless and ugly. I'm going to remove it as well. > > I know that many people like the client titlebar for various > reasons (be it the fact that it's rather unique to dwm, be it > the fact that it allows to locate a client when using many of > them easily), hence I consider this should go into a separate > patch. > > The only pro-argument I realized so far have been vim-windows > with the filename as title - but hey, you can configure vim in a > way that it displays the title of the current file in the bottom > line. > > I believe that in 90% of all cases I can simply identify a > client by its window contents and not its title (in a shell I > notice the hostname in the prompt, in GUI apps the purpose of a > window is just obvious), hence all in all the title is a bonbon, > but not necessary for the mainstream dwm. > > > To the nmaster indicator - I think I don't need to justify this > removal (I considered it useful, but I don't miss it) - we also > have no indicator which tells us the current master width value > as a number, that's my main reason. The nmaster value should be > obvious to people (you rarely use nmaster > 3 I believe). > > Please complain. > > Regards, best, ak
