On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 09:57:08PM -0500, Ben Wilson wrote:
> Anyone have anything, working on anything for a status bar?
There's a way to create a setup where you could e.g. have an xterm
as a "sticky" statusbar, but it requires some work and you may
want to use a style that doesn't have frame borders:
1. Start with a fresh workspace layout.
2. Split vertically, and remove tabs from both frames with
Mod1+F3 _:toggle_tab()
3. Resize the frames so that one is of the size you want for
the statusbar
4. In the non-statusbar frame, do Mod1+F3 _:attach_new({type="WIonWS"})
to create workspaces.
Now you have a basic setup, but you'll need to modify bindings to actually
be able to use it conveniently. In the default setup:
5. The Mod1+n bindings must be modified so that the switch the contents
of the frame containing the actual workspaces. Something like
function(scr) scr:current():farthest("top"):switch_nth(0) end
et cetera might do it if the workspace frame is the one on top.
6. Similarly modify the Mod1+F9 binding and make a new version
of querylib.query_workspace.
Yes, it is an awful lot of work, but possible. Ion3 will probably
eventualy have the WMPlex as a concrete class (currently it must be
inherited) so that it will be possible to create setups with totally
decorationless frames.
> I noticed new windows can "alert" you (change tab colors) when they
> want your attention, could i create a sub-style for this
> specific xterm, so it is a different color?
No.
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