Re: [dwm] dwm's future

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Kurt H Maier <karmaflux_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Mate Nagy <mnagy_AT_port70.net> wrote:
>> I strongly believe that the major problem of dwm currently is
>> not font handling (8bit ascii bitmap fonts are perfectly fine thank
>> you);
>
> Agree 100%.  Folks, if you want unicode support, develop a sane,
> working implementation.

Exactly.

> I've never seen one that matches both "sane" and "working."

http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/utf

There you go ;)

But I agree with your point in the X11 context (although see http://plan9.us)

uriel

>
>> 1. Complete lack of proper xrandr and multi monitor support - this is
>> solved in multiple tiling wms, there's no reason other than lack of
>> interest or obscure ideology not to do this.
>
> Here's a patch to make DWM work fine on a two-monitor side-by-side setup:
>
> --- dwm.c~      2009-02-08 06:10:49.000000000 -0600
> +++ dwm.c       2009-02-25 18:54:17.000000000 -0600
> @@ -1415,7 +1415,7 @@
>        c = nexttiled(clients);
>        mw = mfact * ww;
>        adjustborder(c, n == 1 ? 0 : borderpx);
> -       resize(c, wx, wy, (n == 1 ? ww : mw) - 2 * c->bw, wh - 2 * c->bw,
> resizehints);
> +       resize(c, wx, wy, mw - 2 * c->bw, wh - 2 * c->bw, resizehints);
>
>        if(--n == 0)
>                return;
>
>
> ...that's from dwm 5.4.1, using xrandr --output DVI-0 --right-of
> DVI-1.  Problem solved.
>
> # Kurt H Maier
>
>
Received on Tue Apr 28 2009 - 00:30:42 UTC