Hi,
In response to the last thread, and as a general announcement, here's
what's going on with the latest changes to the tree. First of all,
please report any bugs you find to the Google issue tracker. I'm least
likely to lose track of them that way.
To start with, I've replaced dmenu with ‘wimenu’. It's very similar in
appearance and behavior, but has a few significant enhancements. The
biggest user-noticable change is the addition of an input caret. Now,
you can type entire command lines without fear of having to start from
scratch when you spot a typo. Second, it not supports command history.
The -h flag specifies a history file to load, and the -n flag, when
present, causes the menu to write back at most n history items to the
history file. Third, you no longer need (or even can) specify colors,
fonts, or positioning on the commandline. All such settings are read
directly from wmii's /ctl. The same now goes for wmii9menu, which has
also had its flags reduced to single letters. I hope not to make many
such backwards-incompatible changes in the future. The wimenu does, and
wmii9menu should in the future, support Xinerama and XRandR. At the
moment, it opens on the screen that holds the pointer, but that will
change to the screen with the focused client.
I've also added Xinerama support, which is now usable, and seems to be
stable, but is far from complete. As some of you have noticed, there's
no way to modify the bar on the secondary screen. There's also only
limited support for managed mode on any but the first screen. You can
move clients into a column with the mouse, and basic keyboard
manipulation will work, but the rest is yet to come. Fullscreen mode
should now work fairly well. A fullscreen client will take whichever
screen most of its window initially resides on. Floating clients don't
yet care much which screen they open on. They'll pick whichever clear
region of the screen seems smallest. XRandR screen switching should also
work. For the moment, once you add a screen, there's no way to get rid
of it. If you remove a screen, wmii will move all of its managed clients
off-screen, and there's basically no way to get them back until you
re-add the screen. In the future, I intend for logical screens to be
independent of Xinerama screens. So, you'll be able to place any logical
screen onto any Xinerama screen, and you'll even be able to place
several logical screens onto one physical screen (so, the top may have
two columns, the bottom one, for instance). This should make it easier
to keep your managed area in order without worrying about clients
getting dumped willy-nilly when you remove a separate monitor. I may,
after some use, decide that we do, afterall, need a way to specify a
separate view for each logical screen, but we'll see.
Comments welcome.
