hi everyone, On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:25:18PM +0100, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: > Dwm has by default a floating and a tiled layer that can have a different > layout. Tiling or maximisation works fine for most clients (by the way, > is there are reason why windows are called clients in dwm jargon?), some
in X parlance, programs connecting to the X server are called X clients or clients. each client may open 0, 1 or many windows. that's all i think. > dialogs, popups or short-living windows require to be floating. Therefore > dwm keeps these windows on an upper layer. yup, dwm does just 2 layers, whereas ICCCM conventions have several more. simplifying this is very much in the scklss philosophy :) > While this makes sense for most applications, there are some (Gimp is > as famous example for this) that are build around this WIMP concept and > thus have to be floating in order to usable. But sometimes it makes sense > to quickly hide them to access information hidden by them (for example > I use the dictionary programme Ding when writing E-Mails in English). > > A common approach would be to dedicate a tag to them and switch > via ALT+TAB back and forth. In my opinion this a bit cumbersome and > non-intuitive. i always do this > I rather expect to rotate the two layers like I can do > with windows in monocle layout. i stay away from anything that moves floating windows around because GIMP belongs to the 1% of X clients where floating windows remain a better option than tiled windows. taste... i for one would not even look for consensus here. i did increase the number of tags to 9 long before this was the case in the stock config.h. cheers, -- Benoit Triquet <benoit.triquet at gmail.com> .''`. : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices, surrender your code. `. `' We will add your hardware and software distinctiveness to `- our own. Resistance is futile.