This is my opinion tips about swm: - I feel more comfortable on default dwm keybindings - the manpage is wrong: mod1-s goes to the next window instead of allowing to choose the selection (it's meta+a) (typo: Shist => Shift) - I like this approach of tagging windows by regexps and grouping them by regexped keywords. It's really useful. - I like the second master window size (in dwm all tiled frames of each column have the same size, and it's better to have a different dimensions (master = 70%, submaster = 30%) - I don't like to be restricted to only two windows in the master area. - I don't like the default border color of the selected window (it is not much eye-friendly and a bit confusing) - I love the alt+space feature of dwm which swm lacks. (at least by default) - I would like that alt+1, 2, 3 ... switch between current defined keywords, not between hardcoded ones. This way you can recicle information and avoid confusion. - Moving windows in floating mode (alt+click+mouse) is broken or does not work well at all, because of the center-mouse-on-window stuff. - I love the zoom (alt+enter) feature in floating mode (which dwm lacks in latests version) - i rather prefer the status bar at top of the screen O:)
This is just a personal opinion and a comparision between dwm and swm, I would like to see some of these stuff included into dwm, so, i don't like the forks of forks of forks if the root project can be enhaced with such features. I think most of the features of swm should be discussed and enhaced, It shows some interesting stuff, but it needs more feedback and discussion. --pancake On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:55:06 +0100 "Enno \"Gottox\" Boland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > On monday I've got a great idea how I can improve my environment. As I > often use only one window by tag, I considered how I can remove tags > from dwm. The result is called selecting. > > At first glance it looks a little bit oldschool, because one window > can only have two states: shown and not shown. But nevertheless we can > dynamicly set windows shown or not shown by using regexp. > > This is very flexible, simple and powerfull. I start hacking dwm > tuesday. The result is called swm - selecting window manager[1]. In contrast > to dwm-3.6.1 - which is the base for this proof of concept - it saves 209 > lines. I tried it a little and I think it feels good. What do you think about > this concept? > > Before you try it please be sure you read the swm manpage and > config.default.h. > > regards > Gottox > > [1] http://81.209.164.44/data/swm-0.1.tar.gz > -- > http://www.gnuffy.org - Real Community Distro > http://www.gnuffy.org/index.php/GnuEm - Gnuffy on Ipaq (Codename Peggy) > --pancake
