Re: [dwm] wildcard in client rules tags ref

2008/5/15 Eric Davis <edavis_AT_insanum.com>:
> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:56:02AM +0200, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
>> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:06:22PM -0700, Eric Davis wrote:
>> > DWM used to support regular expressions in the tags ref for client
>> > rules. I agree that the feature was overkill but it was nice to be able
>> > to say "*" so a client is on all tags. I used this for background
>> > notification popups from scripts with gxmessage.
>> >
>> > Is it possible to add a simple glob indicator back to DWM that specifies
>> > all tags? Or is there another way to do this that I overlooked...?
>>
>> See attached patch, however I'm not sure I like this approach
>> for the mainstream dwm.
>>
>> If you want the behavior it is possible with the following
>> approach already in mainstream dwm, but you might not like it:
>>
>> { NULL, "gxmessage", NULL, tags[0], True },
>> { NULL, "gxmessage", NULL, tags[1], True },
>> { NULL, "gxmessage", NULL, tags[2], True },
>> { NULL, "gxmessage", NULL, tags[3], True },
>> ...
>> { NULL, "gxmessage", NULL, tags[8], True },
>>
>
> Sometimes the simplest approaches are greatly overlooked! Having the
> multiple tag rules works great and I think is a good solution.
>
> Note that, for me, you're patch caused dwm to hang. It wouldn't take
> any keyboard input and no gxmessage windows were shown... but dwm did
> respond to HUP and came back to life.
>
> Another solution which might be even better is to use dzen.
>
> Thanks,
> - e
>
>
>

Of course it crashed, did you correct the typo? The i++ in the for
loop should be j++

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