Anselm R Garbe wrote:
Hi,

Hi,

2008/12/22 Matthias-Christian Ott <[email protected]>:
Yesterday I updated my dwm tree to tip and noticed that the borders were
removed (1376). This applies only to clients in tiled layout, is there
a reason why this behaviour is not present in monocle?

It is present in monocle as well, if there is only 1 client. This
makes the new behavior also an indicator for the monocle layout if
there are more clients.

If no border indicates that there's just one client in the tag it makes
some sense, but I rather like borderless if there's only one client
visible. This seems more intuitive to me, because borders indicate a
separation which is only necessary when there is more than one client
visible.

Yes, that's how it is supposed to be.

I think, this doesn't make much sense. My proposed conception of borderless clients seems more reasonable and intuitive to me. If you take borders not as decoration (as some window manager do), but instead as separating entities, that are used to distinguish windows, it makes sense to omit the borders if only one particular window is visible, because they aren't serving any purpose. In others words: borders are superfluous in that case.

What do others think about this? Maybe I have just a different conception of it than everyone else. If so, I'll simply implement this for myself, otherwise I think dwm's behaviour should be altered.

Kind regards,
--Anselm


Regards,
Matthias-Christian

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