Re: [dwm] [PATCH] Separate border colors for floating windows

I don't like this patch, so having multiple colors for floating/non-floating
windows and selected/non-selected ones is a bit confusing and useless (imho).

BTW feel free to add this patch to the wiki.

About floating windows I would like to comment another anoying response of
dwm in front of floating windows. This is when switching between tags, the
floating windows always get focus, and you have to ^j^k between them each
time you switch between tags to focus the desired tiled one each time.

This is also noisy when you have a single window tagged in multiple tags and
you switch between them. I usually have some floating windows with multiple
tags like documentation, notifications and chats. That's useful, but anoying
because you loss the focus everytime.

--pancake

On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 05:01:45PM +0400, Stanislav Maslovski wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 01:42:39PM +0200, Sander van Dijk wrote:
> > On 6/26/07, Stanislav Maslovski <stanislav.maslovski_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> > >On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 11:37:46AM +0200, Sander van Dijk wrote:
> > >> On 6/26/07, Stanislav Maslovski <stanislav.maslovski_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> >Hello,
> > >> >
> > >> >I propose this small change. It allows to use separate border colors for
> > >> >floating windows. If needed I will send a screenshot that shows the use
> > >of
> > >> >it:
> > >>
> > >> May I ask what you want this for? Floating windows are already
> > >> distinguished by the little square in their title, and their
> > >> non-restricted size and position usually gives them away too.
> >
> > >I set NORMBORDERCOLOR to the background color of my GTK2 theme so that
> > >the tiled windows visually appear "glued" together (there is no visible
> > >border). At the same time I want the floating windows that have a border.
> >
> > It seems to me that what you really want is borderless tiled apps.
>
> Yes. Borderless tiled windows but floating ones with a distinctive border.
>
> > The way you achieve (well, fake, actually) this now (background-colored
> > borders) looks like a hack to me;
>
> I agree it is a kind of hack.
>
> Another possibility was to have borderwidth = 0 for tiled windows,
> and borderwidth != 0 for the floating ones. But if it is done this way,
> the tiled windows will not get the red frame that marks the window
> that has focus. And I like this red frame ;)
>
> > it's also incomplete: what about
> > non-gtk apps for example?
>
> Well, most of the themes I use have consistent colors. Gtk, Gtk2, Qt, etc.
>
> > Stuff like this is fine for personal use,
> > but I don't think it belongs in mainstream dwm.
>
> It would be nice if one proposes a more natural way how to
> achive the same effect.
>
> --
> Stanislav
>
Received on Tue Jun 26 2007 - 17:26:03 UTC