Re: [dev] [DWM] suggestion for dwm

From: Julien Pecqueur <jpec_AT_julienpecqueur.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 21:30:01 +0100

THANK YOU !!!!

Your solution is perfect for my needs !

I wrote a little tuto (in french) here [1].

[1] http://www.julienpecqueur.com/wordpress/2010/01/avoir-un-sys-tray-dans-dwm/

Le lundi 04 janvier 2010 à 04:18:11, Anders Andersson a écrit :
> > I have a suggestion for DWM. I use DWM for about months and i miss one functionality : a trayer (a zone for icons in the status bar to reduce applications like xchat or to have icons for applications like gmixer, batterymon, wicd-client) in the status bar!
> > I've tried to use some apps to have a trayer (bmpanel and other panels with tray) but it's not fine and i haven't find a trayer app which runs like conky (in background of others clients).
> >
> > Is it planned to implement this in DWM? If not, do you have a solution for me?
>
> There are none, I hacked fbpanel, works like a charm. I randomly added
> this line:
> gdk_window_set_override_redirect(p->topgwin->window, TRUE);
> before the "gtk_widget_show_all(p->topgwin);"
>
> And then I made sure that the dwm statusbar is always at least N pixels:
>
> - bh = dc.h = dc.font.height + 2;
> + bh = dc.h = MAX(dc.font.height + 2, barheight);
>
> (set barheight to 24 oslt)
>
> // pipe
>

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