Maxim Vuets wrote: > Hi folks, Hi, > Firstly I want to sorry beforehand if my questions were already discussed. > I am new for this mailling list and young for dwm (: > > I know dwm for almost one year. I have used ion3 before, awesome and > tried to use xmonad after. But now I'm again with dwm and don't want > switch to something another. Quite the contrary---I wanna improve it > as much as I can and want. > > dwm is great because it is simple and comprehended. > You can hack, fork, fix it... anything! It sucks less (: > > So. What I want to know is that why dwm uses built-in status bar, > when even such "heavy" WM as metacity does not has such one? > The problems I see: dwm somehow needs to pass current tags > status. Not a problem in fact. And not a requirement, is not it? > Also dwm must do a padding to make another bar to fit. (Not sure.) > Advantages: a lot. You can any status bar you want. (We can write > our own suckless status bar.) (; > Unix-way, because WM will just manage windows, but not shows > some additional info. (Recall xmonad---it does not has status bar, > only via extensions.) > No body will annoy about that "stupid squares". *joking*
I think this was already discussed, just search the archive. > Next, tags. Really cool idea for sure. But let's be honest: how much > of us use them as tags, not as workspaces? I think not much. > The most common usage would be the kinda this: you have tags > "www", "devel", "gfx", "movie" and so on. On the first one you keep > browser, mail reader. On the second one---vim or emacs, terminal > or two... Etc. From time to time you are switching among them. > This way is called named workspaces. No? > I don't propose to get rid of tags, no! I propose to introduce > workspaces in addition to tags. It will be just sets which keep > current layout and selected tags. That's all! +1 That makes sense to me, but where do you want to place the workspace list? > I want to use some layout scheme to one set of windows and > another layout to another set. dwm cannot do it. awesome can > (exactly for 2.x, don't know about 3.x). But it is broken---it tryies to use > tags (yes, they are still tags) as workspaces. It remembers layout per > tag. +1 Another nice feature would be a workspace deck or tag deck. This way multiple tags or workspaces can be overlay each other on multiple layers. I don't if this really practically relevant. > Also small title for each window may be usufull. (Especilly, if status bar > will be separated to 3rd-party app.) But not sure. Seems that it does not > conform to the dwm philosophy. > > Thanks for your attention. Regards Matthias-Christian
