ion solves this by showing all the client's title on a single line but this will make dwm more complex and ugly :)
the question is if you want to store this info in your head or in dwm On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 01:44:12PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 08:49:36PM -0400, Jeremy O'Brien wrote: > > > Do you use [the monocle layout] personally? Just curious. I couldn't > > find a logical place I'd ever need to use such a layout. For me, it > > became hard to manage all the windows I might have open on one view > > while only being able to switch between them one at a time. Just > > looking for insight into this. :) > > I use it often. I have several programs that I always want to be in > fullscreen mode: Firefox, OpenOffice, Adobe Reader. I have a tag for > them and then I can easily switch between them. > > If a view in monocle layout contains too many clients, then it becomes > difficult to maintain state in the head which clients exists and where > we are in the order. But if it is just 3 or 4 clients, then one doesn't > need to keep track of things in the head -- it is enough to just cycle > all clients until the one you want pops up. > > Kai > >
