Re: [dwm] dwm wish, a tidy-up function

On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 10:07:36AM -0500, Ritesh Kumar wrote:
> n Dec 6, 2007 5:23 AM, Anselm R. Garbe <arg_AT_suckless.org> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 11:18:49AM +0100, Sander van Dijk wrote:
> > > On Dec 6, 2007 10:06 AM, Marc Andre Tanner <mat_AT_brain-dump.org> wrote:
> > > > No. At least not in my opinion, please keep it simple & stupid.
> > > > Thanks for the excellent work.
> > >
> > > I agree. If anything, I think I'd prefer a .dwmrc.
> >
> > Ok, but the DWMTAGS idea is ok for everyone?
> >
>
> I am wondering how will that work if we have two windows from the same
> process. While keeping TAGS (and possibly floating state) in the environment
> can eliminate the need for regex based client matching, I still would like
> to segregate windows from the same process with different tags.
> I was wondering if X11 supports some kind of window metadata atom which the
> window manager could use to store some custom data? Dwm could just publish
> the tags for a window there and use it on a restart.

You will find such implementation in the hg log. Afair shortly
before the 4.4 or 4.5 release (I don't remember exactly
anymore about the details). Anyway, I dropped the idea, because
dwm is not intended being restarted that frequently which would
justify tag persistence in an X property based way.

Regards,

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