Re: [dwm] Being not so elitist

[Eric Davis]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 08:41:09AM -0500, Kurt H Maier wrote:

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 Yes, we are participating in a simple wm project, and the fewer idiots
 we have marching onto this mailing list and demanding ridiculous
 feature-creep and handholding, the longer it will *remain* a simple wm
 project.  dwm's the only window manager I can stand using any more,
 and I'd rather not have to fork it because the gnometards show up and
 try to integrate networkmanager into the status bar.

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 # Kurt H Maier
 

Ok, I'll bite... so when is DWM gonna support compiz-fusion?  And forget
the networkmanager, I'd instead like to see a little power button icon.

Of course, I'm kidding. :-)

DWM is perfect.  Props to Anselm.

Re: [dwm] wildcard in client rules tags ref

[Eric Davis]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:56:02AM +0200, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
 On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:06:22PM -0700, Eric Davis wrote:
  DWM used to support regular expressions in the tags ref for client
  rules.  I agree that the feature was overkill but it was nice to be able
  to say * so a client is on all tags.  I used this for background
  notification popups from scripts with gxmessage.
  
  Is it possible to add a simple glob indicator back to DWM that specifies
  all tags?  Or is there another way to do this that I overlooked...?
 
 See attached patch, however I'm not sure I like this approach
 for the mainstream dwm.
 
 If you want the behavior it is possible with the following
 approach already in mainstream dwm, but you might not like it:
 
 { NULL, gxmessage, NULL, tags[0], True },
 { NULL, gxmessage, NULL, tags[1], True },
 { NULL, gxmessage, NULL, tags[2], True },
 { NULL, gxmessage, NULL, tags[3], True },
   ...
 { NULL, gxmessage, NULL, tags[8], True },
 

Sometimes the simplest approaches are greatly overlooked!  Having the
multiple tag rules works great and I think is a good solution.

Note that, for me, you're patch caused dwm to hang.  It wouldn't take
any keyboard input and no gxmessage windows were shown... but dwm did
respond to HUP and came back to life.

Another solution which might be even better is to use dzen.

Thanks,
- e

[dwm] wildcard in client rules tags ref

[Eric Davis]

Hi All,

DWM used to support regular expressions in the tags ref for client
rules.  I agree that the feature was overkill but it was nice to be able
to say * so a client is on all tags.  I used this for background
notification popups from scripts with gxmessage.

Is it possible to add a simple glob indicator back to DWM that specifies
all tags?  Or is there another way to do this that I overlooked...?

Thanks,
- e