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

From: Anselm R. Garbe <arg_AT_suckless.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:33:16 +0200

On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 03:40:04PM +0200, WyrmSkull wrote:
> Anselm R. Garbe wrote
> >>That's exactly the proposal I had sometime ago, but it scares me
> >>that it will bring unecessary complexity
> Rules already have to be written manually - instead of those you
> could use bash scripts.
> xterm --> echo "tag Xterm,2" | dwm
> This could cut the "rules" parts out.
>
> Keybindings could be moved to an external program too (xkeybind?).
> xkeybind ---> key ---> echo "tag focused_client,2" | dwm
> xkeybind ---> key ---> exec program
>
> Is this too much a radical change? I honestly think so.
> Nevermind, was just an idea.

In the end customizing dwm would become more complicated than
before. So I dropped that idea long time ago.

(One could make this idea behave similiar than wmiirc in wmii,
 but then you spend hours for fine-tuning things, whereas you
 now spend 10 minutes).

Regards,

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 Anselm R. Garbe >< http://www.suckless.org/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361
Received on Tue Sep 25 2007 - 16:33:16 UTC

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