this might be a bad idea but, the window manager could set an X prop of an array(tag) of arrays(wids) and there could be another app that reads this property and exposes the info in a friendly way so that something else can display the info any way it wants. without having to deal with the contents of the property directly. (ugly i know...)
as far as i can see the maintenance of this array should also be O(n) since it can be managed a long side the window list in dwm. --Carlos On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Lee Fallat <ircsurfe...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Xft and Systray would be implemented by a separate program and all the >> fruitless discussions about the visual stuff, would come to an end. > > > This sounds like a wonderful solution, but I can't see how dwm's status bar > can be implemented via something like dzen...Things like the current window > square and windows open squares wouldn't be possible unless you literally > printed a square character. If I can see a way that's easily implementable > though I'd be up for trying to strip dwm's status bar and reworking it so > it'd somehow work with pipes or something. > > -lf94