Re: [dwm] Urgency hook?

From: Anselm R. Garbe <arg_AT_suckless.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:36:40 +0100

On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 02:23:37PM -0500, Jeremy O'Brien wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 02:15:38PM -0500, Jeremy O'Brien wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 08:05:56PM +0100, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 01:05:24PM -0500, Jeremy O'Brien wrote:
> > > > Just out of curiosity, has anyone made a patch that puts a special color
> > > > or some indicator on tags that have windows that set the "Urgency"
> > > > window hook, such as pidgin or urxvt if setup correctly? And if not, how
> > > > feasible would this be? Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > I think it would be worth to add that hook for the tag bar in
> > > dwm.
> > >
> >
> > You mean you'd consider it as a feature?
> >
>
> Replying to my own post. How lame of me. As an added idea, "borrowed"
> from xmonad, a function could be implemented that would select the tag
> of and focus the last urgent window. This could of course be bound to a
> keyboard shortcut. The added benefit of dwm though is that you wouldn't
> necessarily have to deselect your current tag. You could just set the
> urgent tag as visible and redirect focus.

I wasn't clear either. I mean that I consider the urgent hint
being implemented in a way that highlights a tag if there is a
window related with the urgen hint. E.g. due to appending * to
the tag name -> irc*

Regards,

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