Re: [dwm] Subtle - a new tiling WM

nszabolcs:
> 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

Right, if the status bar is used a lot for controlling the window
manager, there needs to be a reliable channel between them. Doing that
properly means a command interpreter, or some other event hook, into the
window manager.

Maybe status bars shouldn't be used to control window managers though ;)

-- Don
Received on Fri Jun 29 2007 - 10:33:09 UTC