Re: [dev] xmessage replacement similar to dmenu

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 21:15, Moritz Wilhelmy <crap_AT_wzff.de> wrote:
> If you need something like xmessage and think dzen has too many features, why
> don't you use xmessage?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Moritz

    Well I like `dmenu` for two very important reasons: first it is
simple and solves only one problem (thus suckless :) ), and second it
looks really slick. (It fits as a glove with the `i3` window manager,
and I like that it always positions itself at the bottom of the
screen, plus it allows me to customize the colors from the command
line.)

    So I wouldn't say that `xmessage` doesn't solve the problem of
displaying messages, but unfortunately it looks really ugly (I would
say that this is a feature because it should be used as a last resort
tool), and secondly it is maximized by `i3` thus covering the entire
screen.

    Ciprian.
Received on Tue Nov 23 2010 - 20:34:04 CET