On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 11:43:32AM +0100, Stefan Tibus wrote: > On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 10:54:19 +0100 Anselm R. Garbe wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 10:06:55PM +0100, Denis Grelich wrote: > > No, the effect Stefan points out has nothing todo with X* sucks > > ;) > Not exactly. > > > It is because wmii draws 1px borders (hence the + 4), but dmenu > > (like dwm) has dropped those 1px borders around labels, hence > > they use font.ascent + font.descent + 2 as bar height. > If it just were like that one should get the same size by making > dmenu use "+ 4", but it has to be "+ 3"!?
Note that y-offsets begin at 0, whereas heights are postive. Thus maybe + 4 would be right if you calculate y = screenheight - barheight - 1; (Does this solve your issue?) Regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe >< http://suckless.org/~arg/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361
