Re: [dwm] dzen replacing dwm status bar

On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 01:05:18PM +0100, Panos P. wrote:
> even greater would be a patch where we could define the height of that
> increment in config.h or sth like that :)

I think BARPOS can be replaced with something more flexible
which enables us to achieve this. But I don't consider this for
dwm-4.8. Until then you have to patch the source to achieve
this.

--Anselm

> ps: i guess this reply is just a plead to someone in this list to actually
> create that patch :|
>
> On 21-12-2007 12:52, "Anselm R. Garbe" <arg_AT_suckless.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 08:30:40AM -0500, Ross Mohn wrote:
> > > I'm interested in replacing the right hand side of the dwm status bar
> > > with dzen. Has someone already worked out best practices for doing this?
> > > One issues I've run into is the dynamic width of the text printed. For
> > > example, if I'm piping text into a dzen process and the number of
> > > characters printed expands, how can I make the dzen window expand? I'm
> > > sure there are other ways to approach dzen issues and I'd love to see
> > > some examples in terms of actual placement, etc.
> >
> > In my opinion, just decrease the 'wah' area and use dzen in the
> > opposite position of the dwm bar on the screen (eg at the
> > bottom).
> >

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