Well, I checked the bottom bar on my own, and sorry, I have to
admit it sucks. This is because the left part of the bar is
rather obtrusive and if you work near the bottom in the master
terminal regularly, I get distracted quite often. So I'm no
bottom bar user.

However, to allow consolidation on users habits, I pushed
following patch:

diff -r 2ae946319c7b config.default.h
--- a/config.default.h  Thu Feb 08 11:11:15 2007 +0100
+++ b/config.default.h  Thu Feb 08 11:47:03 2007 +0100
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ const char *tags[] = { "1", "2", "3", "4
 #define MODKEY                 Mod1Mask
 #define NMASTER                        1               /* clients in master 
area */
 #define SNAP                   20              /* pixel */
+#define TOPBAR                 True            /* False */
 
 #define KEYS \
 static Key key[] = { \
diff -r 2ae946319c7b main.c
--- a/main.c    Thu Feb 08 11:11:15 2007 +0100
+++ b/main.c    Thu Feb 08 11:46:43 2007 +0100
@@ -141,15 +141,15 @@ setup(void) {
        wa.override_redirect = 1;
        wa.background_pixmap = ParentRelative;
        wa.event_mask = ButtonPressMask | ExposureMask;
-       barwin = XCreateWindow(dpy, root, sx, sy + sh - bh, sw, bh, 0, 
DefaultDepth(dpy, screen),
-                       CopyFromParent, DefaultVisual(dpy, screen),
+       barwin = XCreateWindow(dpy, root, sx, sy + (TOPBAR ? 0 : sh - bh), sw, 
bh, 0,
+                       DefaultDepth(dpy, screen), CopyFromParent, 
DefaultVisual(dpy, screen),
                        CWOverrideRedirect | CWBackPixmap | CWEventMask, &wa);
        XDefineCursor(dpy, barwin, cursor[CurNormal]);
        XMapRaised(dpy, barwin);
        strcpy(stext, "dwm-"VERSION);
        /* windowarea */
        wax = sx;
-       way = sy;
+       way = sy + (TOPBAR ? bh : 0);
        wah = sh - bh;
        waw = sw;
        /* pixmap for everything */

With this you can define the bar appearance in your config.h,
and the wmii users can use dmenu -b, I won't remove the -b
option from dmenu, those 2 LOC aren't worth the effort ;)

Regards,
-- 
 Anselm R. Garbe >< http://www.suckless.org/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361

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