I'm not a big patcher/coder. I know you're probably busy, but I might as
well ask. I was wondering if you could patch it for me? I get what
you're saying, but am not skilled enough to implement it. The thing is
that I don't need 99 different workspaces...hehe. If you have some extra
time or whatnot I would really appreciate the un-dynamic features that I
requested. I have since switched back to dwm just because the dynamic
amount of workspaces seems a little over the top for me, and I need to
see what workspace has open windows and such. Thanks for the reply, and
I will see what I can do, but I doubt I will get it to work how I want it.
Thanks, Jonny
Christian Garbs wrote:
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 07:28:49PM -0700, Jonny Gerold wrote:
Godsend,
I luv it... The only thing is that I would like all the workspaces
displayed at the top instead of 1/2 etc... ie. (1 2 3...) But This is
exactly what I was looking for, and I figure that it's just a patch that
I need to remove or something? Or is this even possible?
Of course it's possible, this is computer science :-)
You should take a look at the workspace-patch. There you can make the
relevant changes - but don't change too much or the following
perworkspace-patch won't apply cleanly...
The workspaces are implemented with a dynamic amount of workspaces.
You can create and remove workspaces, which does not mix very well
with a static display of all workspaces in the status bar.
To get your desired behaviour, you should do the following:
- set the initial number of workspaces to your liking
- remove keybindings for creation and deletion of workspaces
- revert the drawbar function to the old behaviour without the
workspaces patch but beware that you don't have a tag array any
more. If ordinal numbers as workspace names are ok, then this is
easy to fix, just print the numbers when the boxes are drawn.
If you really need text ("1 2 3 www irc"), you need to (re)create
some sort of (tags)array and use it to fill the boxes.
That should kind of work.
Regards,
Christian
PS: I won't include this into my patchset because I heavily rely on
dynamic workspace creation (this is the dynamic window manager,
after all :-) and managing two different codebases becomes quite a
hassle when other patches get stacked on top...
