Re: [dwm] dwm without statusbar

Hi,

"Anselm R. Garbe" <arg_AT_suckless.org> schrieb am 11.05.2007 um 15:15:
> On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 02:59:36PM +0200, lobzang wrote:
> > just a simple question , is it possible to have dwm without any status
> > bar ? (just a blank screen in fact)
>
> It is possible if you hack the code, though it is dependent from
> your intention, there are two motivations for this:
>
> a) You want make dwm simplier, so you might want remove the code
> responsible for drawing/creating/resizing the status bar
> completely.
>
> b) You only don't like the status bar on the screen, so you
> might want add a togglebar() function which shows/hides the
> status bar and performs a rearrange() accordingly - actually I
> even consider this an interesting option for mainstream dwm,
> because this way, one could define an
> [...]

How about an option to run without statusbar, but to run a command
when the mouse hits the screen edge? One could then run dzen or
whatever and have some kind of "self-hiding status bar/tray", like in
Gnome or *gasp* Windows.

ciao
Stefan

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