Re: [dwm] dwm: request to discuss

2008-08-28 Thread Anselm R Garbe
Hi there, 2008/8/27 Maxim Vuets [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So. What I want to know is that why dwm uses built-in status bar, when even such heavy WM as metacity does not has such one? The problems I see: dwm somehow needs to pass current tags status. Not a problem in fact. And not a requirement, is

Re: [dwm] dwm: request to discuss

2008-08-28 Thread Alexander Polakov
The most time you spend on developing something. But from time to time you want to check irc and mail, maybe serf smth. And all the time you want to see your im client. What you do? Press Alt-o which brings my IM-client to me. Then press alt-o to hide it back. Such title bars bring a possibility

Re: [dwm] dwm: request to discuss

2008-08-28 Thread Donald Chai
On Aug 28, 2008, at 1:12 PM, Maxim Vuets wrote: The reason for the built-in status bar is simplicity. In theory it would be possible to externalize it, but then you would end up with adding some kind of command interface to dwm to aim the mouse interaction from the bar. In the end

Re: [dwm] dwm: request to discuss

2008-08-28 Thread Matthias-Christian Ott
Maxim Vuets wrote: 2008/8/28, Matthias-Christian Ott [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I don't propose to get rid of tags, no! I propose to introduce workspaces in addition to tags. It will be just sets which keep current layout and selected tags. That's all! +1 That makes sense to me, but where

Re: [dwm] dvtm suggestion

2008-08-28 Thread Marc Andre Tanner
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 04:28:47AM -0700, Donald Chai wrote: What about the ability to run different dvtm instances on different virtual terminals that share a common session? This could be seen as the tag/workspace concept. You could detach a window on /dev/tty1 and reattach it in your

Re: [dwm] A talk about suckless.org and dwm

2008-08-28 Thread Jimmy Tang
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 02:53:41PM +0200, markus schnalke wrote: [2008-08-26 14:31] Enno Gottox Boland [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would be pleased if you could add dwm-gtx to dwms children. I understand your wish, but I havent heard of someone (else than you) using it. i'd like to raise my

Re: [dwm] [dvtm] scrollback and 256color support

2008-08-28 Thread Donald Chai
Thanks for the patches, scrollback is probably the most requested dvtm feature. You introduced a separate buffer for the scrollback data, did you consider allocating more space for the main buffer and just adjusting the scroll_{top,bot} pointers and using them in madtty_draw to draw only the

Re: [dwm] dvtm suggestion

2008-08-28 Thread Donald Chai
- tags/workspaces are a straightforward addition to dvtm, since it was derived from dwm. (I have it mostly working for myself, but I had to rip out a lot of dvtm-specific things like 'minimize') Why had you to rip out these things? There is a git branch which should mostly work but i so far

Re: [dwm] dwm: request to discuss

2008-08-28 Thread yy
2008/8/28 Maxim Vuets [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think that mouse is not really important for dwm status bar. Well, I think it is. I use dwm exclusively with the mouse without any changes to dwm.c (have a look at the customisation/customfunctions section in the wiki to see my config.h) Why you