Re: [dwm] dwm-4.6 / dmenu-3.4

From: Antoni Grzymala <antoni_AT_chopin.edu.pl>
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:19:32 +0100

Anselm R. Garbe dixit (2007-10-28, 12:14):

> > > > Do you know which ones need this ? I just have Firefox, pidgin (which
> > > > still steals focus) and xpdf. All of these maximize filling the
> > > > screen. Its just xterm. If anyone has a patch, please send it.
> > >
> > > Btw, you are aware that you're choosing eye-candy over functionality
> > > here, right? ;-)
> >
> > I think resizing the borders or status bar could fill up the unused
> > space of xterm.
>
> I think that's xterms job here.
>
> Honestly, the decision to remove RESIZEHINTS is also related to
> enforce myself to finish the st development. st will be the
> first terminal which works fine with any size given by the WM.
> Actually I told this already a year ago and not much happend
> since then, but I believe that st will really be usable in half
> a year.

Anyhow, removing RESIZEHINTS has been a very good decision and
the new tiling algorithm works wonderful with my terminals with fonts of
various sizes. So this is basically yet another thank-you-and-keep-going
e-mail.

Best,

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