The mailing list post where a patch for this was posted last time:
http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1108/9190.html
That seems to be doing fine for me, and works fine with 4.4.1, so maybe
just use something to this effect (ish?).
Then again, your mileage may vary, depending on your use. I set mine up
> It would be more sensible to have a single '-g' flag, for geometry,
> which would take an X geometry string. I did write a patch a while
> back which did this, but I don't know where I put it. I also didn't
> find it at all useful, and some of the code was a bit ugly. What would
> be the use case
On 12/3/11, Bastien Dejean wrote:
> Well, it's useful when one wants to (properly) place dmenu at the
> optical center of the screen and eventually add some incredibly
> necessary margins.
>
Which is exactly what _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DIALOG is for. Note that
doing this in the WM is the only way to
Bjartur Thorlacius:
> grabbing the whole keyboard rendering it temporarily unusable for
> anything but typing text into dmenu or escaping out of it.
Yes, it's extremely annoying and alas, it's not just dmenu, many programs
have the *input black hole* feature.
Cheers,
--
Bastien
Connor Lane Smith:
> I also didn't find it at all useful, and some of the code was a bit
> ugly. What would be the use case for this?
Well, it's useful when one wants to (properly) place dmenu at the
optical center of the screen and eventually add some incredibly
necessary margins.
dmenu's defau
Hey,
On 2 December 2011 19:12, Bastien Dejean wrote:
> (Of course I'm referring to the options of the same name already available in
> dzen2.)
It would be more sensible to have a single '-g' flag, for geometry,
which would take an X geometry string. I did write a patch a while
back which did th
Why choose window placement and dimensions at exec, instead of letting
the window manager handle the issue? Just set _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE to
_NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DIALOG and spend engineering time ranting about
WM_TRANSIENT_FOR, modality and modularity instead.
dmenu's override-redirect flag has alwa
On 2 December 2011 19:12, Bastien Dejean wrote:
> (Of course I'm referring to the options of the same name already available in
> dzen2.)
This is a TODO which can also be found in the dwm TODO file. It is of
lower prio however, as it is trivial to patch the dwm source code to
achieve what you ar
Hi,
(Of course I'm referring to the options of the same name already available in
dzen2.)
Greetings,
--
Bastien
