On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 6:24 PM, David Kennedy <[email protected]> wrote: > On every other system, I use my desktop as a sort of work area. I put stuff > there that I need to do something with later, like notes and shortcuts to > articles that I want to read. I see them every time I reboot or hide all the > windows. It works really well for me, but not in dwm.
Wait, you're serious? So let me stimulate your neurons a bit, so that your brain kicks in at some point. DWM is unlikely to ever provide desktop icons, for various different reasons. First and foremost, DWM doesn't really want you to see empty screen space. I use Monocle mode for everything, but even with tiling modes enabled, the screen is always covered, which is kind of orthogonal to desktop icons. Then there's the graphical concept of DWM, which is lovably cheap^H^H^H^H^Hminimal with single pixel window borders and a single line of text in the title bar. For the graphical context of items, you'd have consider the font size, put a raster over the screen to place the icons inside and center both an icon and text underneath inside there. DWM does currently none of that. Additionally, everything I just explained makes it just so much easier to start writing a real tool to store and arrange tokens in to your liking. Why don't you abandon the concept as you know it and try tomboy notes? Or use a terminal window and an sqlite database? The world is so big, so there's really no need to try to choke m$ windows down your own throat. cheers! mar77i
