>>> 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. >> >> I think that is exactly how the current dwm implementation is supposed >> to be -- I never said anything different to that (at least not that I >> intended it). >> >> Kind regards, >> --Anselm >> >> > I agree with Matthias. The purpose of a border is to separate one > client from another. If there is only one client visible at a given > time (i.e. monocle) then borders in my opinion are a waste of space. > So borders should be set to 0 whenever the layout is monocle, > regardless of the number of clients tagged under the selected tag(s). > > -voltaic >
It is possible for multiple clients to be visible at the same time in monocle if one or more of them is floating. - David
