Hi Michael, thanks for your quick answer and comments. I had read the documentation and experienced with the colors, and I didn't get what I was looking for. In any case, I perfectly understand your policy of not incorporating more options unless it is a necessary feature.
All the best On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Michael Stapelberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Mico, > > Mico Filós <[email protected]> writes: >> First of all, I wonder if I can suppress the generic borders around >> windows and have instead separators of fixed width between them (with >> separators appearing only when it is necessary to delimit windows), >> more or less like tmux does to separate panes (or like ion3/notion to >> separate frames, for that matter). In such a situation, the separators >> would not change color according to the state of the windows (only the >> color of the window titles would indicate the state). My goal is to >> show borders only when they are needed, and when that's the case, use >> a 1px line. >> >> Second, can I set the border between containers in a different color >> than the background color? If I am not mistaken, the background color >> sets both the background of the window title as well as the color >> around the window, and I'd like to set them separately. >> >> In case I didn't explain myself well, here is an image summarizing >> what I'd like to achieve: http://postimg.org/image/csjo2oqjh/ > The relevant options we have in i3 for tuning the behavior in the areas > you are talking about are: > > http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#_border_style_for_new_windows > (border 1pixel) > > http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#_hiding_vertical_borders > (hide_edge_borders both) > > Apart from that, see > http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#_changing_colors for the colors and > experiment some. > > More customization options than that for border style and colors are > extremely unlikely to be accepted into i3. We already have a high number > of options, and I don’t see this as an area that is so important that it > would justify introducing more complexity. See also > https://faq.i3wm.org/question/778/why-is-patch-not-merged-and-made-optional/ > > Hope that helps. > > -- > Best regards, > Michael
