Re: [dwm] visibility of focused windows

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 11:00:49PM -0500, John S. Yates, Jr. wrote:
> I have not looked at the code in a good while but wanted to suggest
> the following code concept. My thought sprang from Anselm writing
>
> > I propose using setlayout("[M]") and setlayout("[]=")
>
> and then later
>
> > I plan to introduce 3 additional key bindings:
> >
> > Mod1-f (Apply floating layout)
> > Mod1-m (Apply monocle layout)
> > Mod1-t (Apply tiled layout)
>
> There already is a notion of the current layout. Imagine that
> there is also a saved layout and the following function:
>
> char *resolvelayout(char *proposed)
> {
> if (proposed == current)
> proposed = saved;
> else
> saved = current;
> current = proposed;
> return proposed;
> }
>
> With this function I can have every target layout toggle:
>
> setlayout( resolvelayout("[M]") );
> setlayout( resolvelayout("[]=") );
> setlayout( resolvelayout("<><") );
>
> Just a thought,
>
> /john
>

john,

thanks for bothering. I'll have a look at this. I believe that
toggling back and forth is frequently much better than explicit
selection of the desired layout, even for the price of a few lines of
code :-).

joerg
Received on Thu Mar 06 2008 - 15:35:09 UTC