Re: [dwm] Unused space between clients

From: Anselm R. Garbe <arg_AT_suckless.org>
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:53:01 +0200

On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 03:49:06PM +0200, Xavier wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 03:13:17PM +0200, Damjan Vrencur wrote:
> > I checked the latest tip and it seems to work nice except that now I got some
> > unused space between clients. Screenshot:
> > http://lmmri.fri.uni-lj.si/damjan/dwmScreenshot.png
> >
>
> That space is much smaller here.
> And this is actually a big improvment. Previously, I had some weird
> corruptions at the place of this unused space.
> This only happened with urxvt though, not xterm. Not sure why..
> But I'm happier with urxvt anyway.
>
> What I'm wondering is if it wouldn't be possible to only have unused space (when
> necessary) at the bottom of the column, instead of between each clients, while
> still fixing that same corruption bug of course.

It would be possible, but it would make tile() more
uneccessarily complex. Honestly, the real reason why I
introduced the RESIZEHINTS macro is enforcing myself to continue
the st development which won't suffer from those limitations all
the old terminals suffer ;)

Regards,

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