Re: [dwm] bar position

From: Enno \ <gottox_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 07:04:35 +0100

Hi!

I use the bar in the bottom. It looks more natural to have it directly
above the status lights of my Thinkpad. So I have all important
information in the lower right corner, the window title in the lower
center and the tags in the lower left. I don't have to find the top of
the screen first.

Gottox

2007/2/7, Stalwart <stlwrt_AT_gmail.com>:
> I like the idea of statusbar being window caption + pager + infobar. I
> can't imagine it on bottom
>
>
> On 2/8/07, Christian Garbs <mitch_AT_cgarbs.de> wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 05:21:57PM +0100, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> >
> > > (Actually for terminal users a bottom bar seems better, because
> > > the prompt is more often near to the bottom than to the top)...
> >
> > That's exactly the reason why I like the status bar at the top:
> >
> > I have the shell prompt (or the irssi prompt and status line) at the
> > bottom and they are clearly separated from the dwm status bar.
> >
> > They don't get mixed up.
> >
> > Except from my browser and the occassional Gimp session I don't use
> > graphical applications (well, I'm typing in emacs right now, but I
> > don't use the emacs menu bar at all) so I've never had problems with
> > menu bars not being at the top end of the screen.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Christian
> > --
> > ....Christian.Garbs.....................................http://www.cgarbs.de
> >
> > #!perl -pl # This kenny-filter is virus-free as long as you don't copy it
> > $p=3-2*/[^\W\dmpf_]/i;s.[a-z]{$p}.vec($f=join('',$p-1?chr(sub{$_[0]*9+$_[1]*3+
> > $_[2]}->(map{/p|f/i+/f/i}split//,$&)+97):('m',p,f)[map{((ord$&)%32-1)/$_%3}(9,
> > 3,1)]),5,1)='`'lt$&;$f.eig; # Jan-Pieter Cornet
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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