Re: [dwm] Subtle - a new tiling WM

On 6/29/07, Donald Bruce Stewart <dons_AT_cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
> Given dzen, would there be any motivation to remove the wired in status
> bar from dwm, and just use an external program for this? That'd be even
> more unixy, leaving the window manager with just one job to do, not two.
> Something like:
>
> dzen < pipe &
> dwm > pipe
>
> -- Don
>

there is duplex communication between the statusbar and dwm:
dwm sends current window title, tag states, ..
statusbar sends mouse events: layoutmode change, toggletag, ...

i'm not sure if
  dzen <statepipe >eventspipe &
  dwm <eventspipe >statepipe
is nicer than the current solution
Received on Fri Jun 29 2007 - 10:25:48 UTC