Re: [dwm] Again client titles and nmaster indicator

From: Anselm R. Garbe <arg_AT_suckless.org>
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 19:57:13 +0100

On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 06:11:49PM +0100, Christian Garbs wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 02:36:59PM +0100, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
>
> > I know that many people like the client titlebar for various reasons
> > (be it the fact that it's rather unique to dwm, be it the fact that
> > it allows to locate a client when using many of them easily), hence
> > I consider this should go into a separate patch.
>
> [...]
>
> > I believe that in 90% of all cases I can simply identify a client by
> > its window contents and not its title (in a shell I notice the
> > hostname in the prompt, in GUI apps the purpose of a window is just
> > obvious), hence all in all the title is a bonbon, but not necessary
> > for the mainstream dwm.
>
> I like the titlebars and use them regularly: whenever a Debian security
> update is available, I ssh to some servers and update then. When you
> have lots of aptitudes open, you don't know which is which :-)

I use apt only without a GUI so I know on which box I'm updating
at that moment ;)

Regards,

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Received on Sat Jan 13 2007 - 19:57:14 UTC

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