Re: [dwm] Master window width in pixels, not percent?

On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 12:52:42PM +0300, Ville Koskinen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently began using dwm, and I must say it is what I've needed for a
> long time. It does have one irksome feature (or lack of): you can only set
> the master window width to be some percent of the screen width.
>
> Before dwm, all my terminal windows were 80 characters wide. I'd like it
> if it was possible to set a fixed and hard limit in pixels or characters
> (although the latter only applies to terminals) for the master window.
>
> Yes, I could also calculate the wanted width in percent by hand from the
> given resolution, but I would need to do this to all resolutions (I
> sometimes need resolutions other than 1280x960), which is tedious and
> sounds more like a job of a computer program, :) and I would need to have
> differently configured executables for different resolutions. A hard limit
> of, say, 800 pixels would be 800 pixels in 800x600, 800 pixels in
> 1024x768, etc.
>
> Now, I have no experience in X programming, but I don't see why it would
> be impossible to have a feature like this. I would be satisfied with the
> following configurable parameters:
>
> #define MASTERW 550
> #define MASTERW_UNIT PIXELS
>
> and, as defaults,
>
> #define MASTERW 60
> #define MASTERW_UNIT PERCENT
>
> in config.h.

Pixels don't scale in different resolutions that well (for your
purpose they do, but not in general). To have a 80 column
terminal you assume that the terminal font is never changed.

If percent is to raw, I'd be fine to change that into promille.

Regards,

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