On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 04:51:39PM +0100, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:55:01PM +0900, Martin Swift wrote:
> > On 3/18/08, Anselm R. Garbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >  > Maybe negative -x/-y values could be interpreted as reverse direction,
> > >  > from to the right or bottom respectively?
> > >
> > > Well, I consider a magic value for -y, e.g. -y b whereas b is
> > >  transformed to mean from the bottom. This is because it might
> > >  be valid to allow negative -x / -y values for some reasons.
> > 
> > Thanks for your attention to this, Anselm. While not a great fan of
> > flag proliferation, how about adding +x and +y switches for the
> > opposite direction?
> 
> Sorry, I was unclear. 
> 
> I was talking about
> 
>   dmenu -b 800
> 
> this creates a dmenu with the bottom at 800 px, whereas
> 
>   dmenu -y 0
> 
> creates a dmenu with the top at 0 px.
> 
> I don't see the need for such treatment with x as well, because
> dmenu is basically a horizontal program.

Well I updated dmenu in hg tip, I decided against a separate -b
flag, but I decided that if the y argument is negative, this
means, that y is interpreted as bottom line, e.g.

   dmenu -y -800

creates dmenu wth the bottom at 800px.

I introduced one magic argument as well


  dmenu -y -0

creates dmenu magically at the screen bottom.

Kind regards,
-- 
 Anselm R. Garbe >< http://www.suckless.org/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361

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