Re: [dwm] [PATCH] An experiment with X resources

On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 08:04:54AM +0200, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 08:50:53PM +0100, Chris Webb wrote:
> > "Anselm R. Garbe" <arg_AT_suckless.org> writes:
> >
> > > it won't last long that the need arises to also configure the key
> > > bindings, and the terminal command, and the dmenu command, and what not
> > > using such capabilities.
> >
> > Actually... :-)
> >
> > What wasn't in that patch, but is in my tree, is a little convenience
> > function that lets you define commands by name in .Xresources:
> >
> > Dwm.command.xterm: urxvt -bg red
> > Dwm.command.browser: opera
> >
> > and then bind them in config.h
> >
> > Key keys[] = {
> > [...]
> > { MODKEY, XK_Return, spawn_command, "xterm" }
> > { MODKEY | ShiftMask, XK_Return, spawn_command, "browser" }
> > [...]
> > }
>
> I don't see much benefit in this design, because you have to
> edit config.h anyways. And in my opinion key bindings don't
> change frequently, same with appearance stuff. Hell, if
> dwm configuration is such an issue, what's the problem in
> extracting the dwm tarball to $HOME/.dwm and writing a dwm
> wrapper script instead which calls make before starting dwm?
> So you can configure dwm easily through editing
> $HOME/.dwm/config.h, and you won't notice a big difference (X
> usually takes longer to start up than dwm to compile)...

Besides this there are chances that some more tiny C compiler
might have chances for further adaption, esp. pcc (in contrast
to 8c and tcc).

Regards,

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