Re: [hackers] More dwm patches

From: Markus Teich <markus.teich_AT_stusta.mhn.de>
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 13:41:11 +0100

Anselm R Garbe wrote:
> Why adding instance/class exceptions for resizehints? Do you have an example
> where this should be taken into account?

Heyho Anselm,

quoting myself:

Markus Teich wrote:
> - resizehints per client (+1 SLoC): Some old version of mplayer "forced" me to
> write this. I don't know if this is still a problem, but the patch might be
> usefull regardless.

Basically mplayer needed the setting to be inverse to the setting for all other
clients to behave how I wanted. I think I wanted mplayer to fill the whole tile
it was assigned to (producing black bars top+bottom or left+right), but could
only achieve that by enabling resizehints for mplayer. However that would also
introduce unwanted behavior for other programs, so I wrote this patch. Nowadays
I use mpv instead of mplayer and could not reproduce this issue with mpv. I
didn't and don't have time to investigate if that was/is a bug in mplayer, so if
you think it could be useful in other cases, apply it, if you think it was just
a bug in mplayer, leave it out.

--Markus
Received on Mon Dec 05 2016 - 13:41:11 CET