Friends, I'm new to wmii but (in opposite to Ion and Xmonad) I was somehow familiar with it from the first moment. It's a nice program.
Now I ask myself the following things: a) Would it be possible to make the current layout mode of a window somehow to be visible? Sometimes, especially after a new window has been created, it's not clear on the first view if the window is in default, stacked, maximized or dynamic layout. And perhaps one tries several keys to move it somewhere (Shift-Mod-l) but the window is not responding just because it's in a wrong layout mode (dynamic). I think it would be an idea to use the same colors for windows in the same layout mode, especially to distinct between tiled windows and dynamic windows. b) Would it be possible to use the entire title bar of a window for dragging it around in dynamic layout mode? The symbol in the upper left corner is really small and I always click onto the bar at first (just because I'm used to do this from other wm) ... c) What about a key to write back the current layout mode of a window into wmiirc? Some applications (Seamonkey) have a lot of windows which look like dialogs but are indeed separate and independent windows. For instance I want to have the preferences dialog always to be in dynamic mode but it always pops up in default mode. Sure, I could write a rule. But it would be a great mechanism to press just a key in this window to make it permanently coming up in the right layout mode, fire and forget. d) If I start any of the OpenOffice 2.3 applications by using the Mod-p mechanism it always comes up in dynamic layout mode. Why? I do not have any special rule for OpenOffice, just the default wmiirc. They should get onto the default layer like any other application. Indeed OpenOffice gets to default mode if I start it from an xterm in default mode. (This behavior seems to be OpenOffice specific. I don't have any other application doing this.) e) What does the left most action "exec" do? In my case it terminates the X session and returns control to gdm. Is this the intention? Thanks in advance T.M., Bern, Switzerland -- GMX FreeMail: 1 GB Postfach, 5 E-Mail-Adressen, 10 Free SMS. Alle Infos und kostenlose Anmeldung: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/freemail
