Re: [dwm] What functions do I really use?

From: Enno \ <gottox_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:10:29 +0100

Hmm... After a look at the source, I think reading from stdin is the
smallest solution...

2006/11/22, Enno Gottox Boland <gottox_AT_gmail.com>:
> Hi!
>
> I do it the other way:
> I often select more than one tag. But I never tag a client to more
> than one tag. I think in my environment this is just faster. In my
> opinion you can remove toggletag instead of toggleview
>
> I use the titlebar in conjunction with screen to let me inform about sth.
> I don't think removing is a good idea.
>
> What about removing reading from stdin and just execute a string
> defined in config.h? This could also solve some issues if you cannot
> use pipes. I don't know if it is smaller, but I could try to write a
> patch.
>
> Enno Boland
>
> 2006/11/22, Anselm R. Garbe <arg_AT_suckless.org>:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I'd like to know what functions do you really use in dwm,
> > because I feel, there are features I don't use. After
> > several months of usage, this might lead to an revision of
> > features, which could be externalized into patches instead
> > staying upstream in the default distribution.
> >
> > Personnaly, I rarely/never use the following features/functions:
> >
> > - titlebars of clients (I really can live without them, I never
> > look at them), removing titlebars could reduce the source
> > about 70 lines, maybe more with some restructurings
> > - viewall/toggleview: (I never view more than one tag per time,
> > although I use the other way around, tagging some
> > clients with more than one tag that they appear when
> > viewing different tags) - I haven't implemented a patch, but
> > this could make seltag[] obsolet, and at least the functions
> > I listed here, approx. yet another 50-70 lines
> > -> instead this feature, I would consider holding
> > a pertag array for client order instead, to remember the
> > per-tag layout correctly, this might add yet another 20-30
> > lines
> >
> > What do you think (I know your opinions about the client title
> > window already, but what do you think about my second point?)
> >
> > If you want to check, how it feels without titlebars, you can
> > apply my patch for dwm-2.2 (and hg tip):
> >
> > http://suckless.org/download/dwm-2.2-notitlebar.patch
> >
> > (It removes abot 70 LOC and renames drawtitle into drawclient,
> > which sould be done anyway).
> >
> > Regards,
> > --
> > Anselm R. Garbe >< http://suckless.org/~arg/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361
> >
> >
>
>
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