On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:45:08 +0200 "Anselm R. Garbe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 09:58:51AM +0800, anhnmncb wrote: > > I like using dwm without mouse, but I find that it is impossible > > moving/resizing windows without it, can dwm add such function so I > > can use MODKey-R to resize and MODKey-<arrow key> to move windows? > > I'm not sure if keyboard-driven resizals should be included into > mainstream dwm. I think there are good reasons for not doing it, > the best one is that I don't resize windows with the mouse manually. Then you'll be able to resize them with the _keyboard_ manually ;) I personally think that a window resizal will be good because of the new possibilities. I don't usually resize windows manually (out of tiled), because non-tiled wms and layouts are no productive in any way. (Well, they have less cpu usage because of the missing automatic window resization and moving algorithms). I have patched my dwm with the three patches for resizing windows, and I can say that none of them satisfy me completely. I think that things like keeping the window size when floating/unfloating a window are importants. The other two window-resizing patches are wrong, they can be probably merged giving more flexibility and hoping that the resulting code becomes clear :) I think that all this kind of floating-layout patches collides a bit with the dwm philosophy because they are adding functionalities for a mode that is allowed because of the impossibility of some applications to work properly on tiled mode. I don't know if dwm must or not provide "helpers" for these buggy applications. The idea of maintaining these functionalities as patches is maybe the cleaner for me. I think it's a best practice, because you are forced to not to use applications that doesn't work in this way. --pancake
