Re: [dwm] cpt alternative proposal

pancake,

When you say "stacking" are you referring to something like wmii's
default stacking mode?

Sincerely,

Antony Jepson

On Nov 23 12:56, pancake wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 07:38:22AM +0100, Robert Figura wrote:
> >
> > pancake <pancake_AT_youterm.com> wrote:
> > > I was thinking about the stacking feature of dwm-rfigura and cpt, and maybe
> > > they can coexist, so, this way will make stack mode easier to use and flexible,
> > > and will fix the problem of the hidden clients out of the cpt range.
> >
> > I'm not sure what feature you're referring to. The cpt idea appeals to
> > me but until now i haven't tried to implement it myself.
>
> My idea is to mix cpt and rfigura-stack patch in this way:
>
> ^w = clientspertag("^2")
>
> +-----+----+ +-----+----+ +-----+----+
> | | | | | | | | |
> | +----+ > ^w > | | | > ^w > | +----+
> | | | |_____|____| | | |
> +-----+----+ +----------+ +-----+----+
>
> ^e = clientspertag("^3")
>
> +-----+----+ +-----+----+ +-----+----+
> | |----| | | | | |----|
> | |----| > ^e > | +----+ > ^e > | |----|
> | |----| |_____|____| | |----|
> +-----+----+ +-----+----+ +-----+----+
>
> This way non-visible windows are stacked in the bottom of the screen, so they
> still being visible and you can focus them and zoom them as in any other mode.
>
> So, the stacked clients remain on the tail of the clients list and you can
> keep focus on the N clients you want with clientspertag.
>
> > > I have not written any line of code yet. rfigura, what do you think about this?
> > > It is much difficult to port it from dwm-rfigura to dwm? Are there much changes
> > > on the source?
> >
> > There are many (unrelated) changes on the source which is the reason i
> > stopped writing patches and moved on to fork dwm. If i'd grok what
> > you're looking for i'd be happy to help backporting ideas.
>
> Uhm, thats what I think.. its a bit hard to follow dwm -mainstream after these
> latest versions patches...But I prefer to port patches than fork it. I like
> to test forks to get ideas and so, but I like to work on the mainstream branch
> and try to make the minimum number of changes to fit my needs.
>
> I don't have much time these days..so, if you want porting the nmaster+stack
> patch as a new mode for dwm (or just patch my nmaster-4.7.c) feel free to do it. :)
>
>
> --pancake