Re: [dev][dwm][patch] dwm toggleignore patch

From: Nikolay Vasylchyshyn <vasylchyshynni_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 19:00:20 +0300

About remembering window state. There is and indicator. It is shown
under the floating/fixed indicator. It's not so useful, because it is
seen (or hidden) only for focused window. The idea with custom border
color is much superior, because you can see all ignored windows at
once.

> I object. This "new" feature is already nearly there.

> If you have two active windows, in which you are working,
> just zoom them to the top of the client stack. Then you
> can easily switch between them with MODKEY+j and MODKEY+k.

Recently I have changed my habit of using dwm. I have switched from
tiled layout to floating.
And zoom doesn't work with floating windows nor floating layout. Zoom
works great. But...
I like to have some terminal windows to show different info I'm
interested in right now.
And when I use zoom, windows switch their positions and I have to
adapt to new windows layout. Which means
to remember new positions. So, I have to look on the terminal window
and understand again which command it is running.

Sorry for my english. Maybe it is not so clear as I would like it to be.

2013/8/20 Raphaël Proust <raphlalou_AT_gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Markus Teich
> <markus.teich_AT_stusta.mhn.de> wrote:
>> Nikolay Vasylchyshyn wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Seems potentially very useful.
>>>
>>> I'm very glad to read this. : )
>>
>>
>> I object. This "new" feature is already nearly there.
>>
>> If you have two active windows, in which you are working,
>> just zoom them to the top of the client stack. Then you
>> can easily switch between them with MODKEY+j and MODKEY+k.
>>
>> If you have three windows, in one third of the possibilities
>> of switching from any of client 1, 2 or 3 to one of the
>> remaining two clients you have to press one more key without
>> your patch: MODKEY+j+j instead of MODKEY+k and the other
>> way around. So during a prolonged work session you can save
>> 1/3 * 1/3 = 1/9 of the keypresses with three actively used
>> clients.
>
> I end up spending quite some keypresses getting the right order for my
> windows. Especially when I bring together several tags and end up with
> difficult to predict interleaving of windows.
>
>
>>
>> The setup takes some key presses with your patch too and
>> managing (remembering and getting the right key combinations
>> into muscle memory) the additional state of every client
>> in your brain also takes some more time.
>
> Hence the idea of adding different colours. The state need not be
> stored in your brain.
>
>
>>
>> So at least for my workflow (which is not that static) this
>> patch is not useful.
>
> Probably not to be included in the main branch anyway, but it'd still
> make a good addition to the patch section of the wiki.
>
>
> --
> ______________
> Raphaël Proust
>
Received on Tue Aug 20 2013 - 18:00:20 CEST