On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 4:44 AM, John Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - For a short while, I experimented with using the floating layout as my > default layout. It was actually kind of interesting. The main > advantage of it: it adds a certain kind of predictability when > adding/removing tags from view. I tend to have a lot of terminal > windows open (like most dwm users, I suspect). One downside is that > many of the windows look very similar (same font, font size, color > scheme, etc.). When adding a tag to the view results in more terminal
One thing I did was modified aterm so that it changes the background colour based upon using a very simple hash of the directory name as an index into a colour table. After about a year I now know automatically which colour various very common directories give (/home/dtweed, /root, /tmp, etc) and it's very quick for me to find say my home directory if I know it's definitely in the current set of viewed tags. If I'm working on something with terminals in specific directories for a couple of weeks I'll have "internalised automatically" out the directory colours after about a week. I'd hoped it might kick in quicker, but unfortunately it takes that longer. The other big problem is that I only managed to find 8 suitably distinct background colours, so different directories map to the same colours occasionally. However, once st gets released I hope to hack it to behave this way. (I only went for aterm because that was the only source code I could figure out how to hack.) -- cheers, dave tweed__________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rm 124, School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading. "while having code so boring anyone can maintain it, use Python." -- attempted insult seen on slashdot
