Re: [dwm] feature request

From: Fernan Bolando <fernanbolando_AT_mailc.net>
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 03:43:09 +0800

"Anselm R. Garbe" <arg_AT_suckless.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 01:00:31AM +0800, Fernan Bolando wrote:
> > First of all reducing the source to a single dwm.c is very cool.
> >
> > I was wondering if these features are possible improvements into dwm
> >
> > 1. tab completion, when typing a command in dmenu
> > ex.
> > page /home/fernan/something.pdf
>
> No, I believe if you really need such things it is better to use
> a terminal + shell for this. It would clutter dmenu extremely
> when it would contain such a feature. I remember that once such
> feature has been included in wmi - and it just felt wrong.

Yeah, its not that important

> > 2. I am not sure if this is a plan9port bug or dwm
> >
> > when in tile mode
> > I launch page by typing "page /home/fernan/somefile.pdf"
> > it tries to change the windowsize and it crashes.
> > in float it's no problem.
>
> I believe that dwm behaves pretty ICCCM compliant and I also
> believe that there are issues in the X backend of p9p (I
> remember similiar issues in acme/p9p).
>
> But adding some debug info to configurerequest might enlighten
> us. Which version of page (p9p) do you use? Please provide me
> all necessary info that I can try to reproduce your issue.
>

I am using the latest download from p9p website,
the page version is the actual port and not the script to load psv

this occurs when using both 4.4.1 and 4.5 of dwm

As a work around , I placed page as float in config.h and it is
more usable that way.

thanks
Fernan

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