Re: [dev] One Border is Not Enough

2012-01-18 Thread Petr Šabata 
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:11:09AM +0100, Bastien Dejean wrote:
> Connor Lane Smith:
> 
> > On 15 January 2012 10:55, Bastien Dejean  wrote:
> > > Solution: add a separation border between the window boundary and the
> > > focus border. The contrast between the separation border and the focus
> > > border should be high and constant.
> 
> My solution is incomplete: a third border is needed to /protect/ the
> focus border from the outside.

Just use wide borders.  It won't be that easy to make a mistake if you know that
50px wide area is border, no matter if it happens to be the same color as that
window or root window background.

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Re: [dev] wmii falling out of favor

2012-01-18 Thread dtk 
On 01/08/2012 10:30 AM, John Matthewman wrote:
> I would like a window manager that has wmii's acme-like window
> management, but without the 9P filesystem, wmiir, support for
> configuration via python, ruby, etc. 

>  use dwm as a base to build upon

+1

I imagine having a stacked layout + manual layouting in dwm should do
basically everything I need in everyday work. Plus a sleek code base.

There are a few other things that are now implemented through the
configuration *dirty* like toggling the last tag, namespaces for tags,
... but that could be patched separately, if necessary.

>> Quintin Guillaume posted a patch providing a wmii-like layout for dwm
>> a while ago [1]. I doubt that it applies to current dwm as it
>> probably
>> is from the pre-Xinerama era of dwm, but it may be easily brought up
>> to date. There were some updated versions of that patch, make sure to
>> search the old d...@suckless.org mailing list archives for the latest
>> one.
>>
>> [1] http://lists.suckless.org/dwm/0808/6435.html
>
> Thanks for the tip! I vaguely remember reading about that patch a long
> time ago. Maybe I'll see if I can get it to work -- then try to make
> it a bit more mouse-friendly (like acme).

That sounds truly awesome! Will you let us know how it goes?
Thx in advance
dtk

Re: [dev] One Border is Not Enough

2012-01-18 Thread Bastien Dejean 
Connor Lane Smith:

> On 15 January 2012 10:55, Bastien Dejean  wrote:
> > Solution: add a separation border between the window boundary and the
> > focus border. The contrast between the separation border and the focus
> > border should be high and constant.

My solution is incomplete: a third border is needed to /protect/ the
focus border from the outside.

Thanks for the references,
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