On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 03:15:17PM +0200, Anselm R. Garbe wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 02:59:36PM +0200, lobzang wrote: > > just a simple question , is it possible to have dwm without any status > > bar ? (just a blank screen in fact) > > It is possible if you hack the code, though it is dependent from > your intention, there are two motivations for this: > > a) You want make dwm simplier, so you might want remove the code > responsible for drawing/creating/resizing the status bar > completely. > > b) You only don't like the status bar on the screen, so you > might want add a togglebar() function which shows/hides the > status bar and performs a rearrange() accordingly - actually I > even consider this an interesting option for mainstream dwm, > because this way, one could define an > > enum { BarTop, BarBot, BarOff }; > > and implement a togglebar() function which toggles between those > modes. #define BARPOS BarOff in config.h could be then use to > hide the bar by default. > > Is b) of your taste? I consider this useful, to have the > possibility to hide or move the bar somewhere else on demand. > > What do others thing about my proposal?
I would appreciate such an option. Diego