On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 10:07:36AM -0500, Ritesh Kumar wrote: > n Dec 6, 2007 5:23 AM, Anselm R. Garbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 11:18:49AM +0100, Sander van Dijk wrote: > > > On Dec 6, 2007 10:06 AM, Marc Andre Tanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > No. At least not in my opinion, please keep it simple & stupid. > > > > Thanks for the excellent work. > > > > > > I agree. If anything, I think I'd prefer a .dwmrc. > > > > Ok, but the DWMTAGS idea is ok for everyone? > > > > I am wondering how will that work if we have two windows from the same > process. While keeping TAGS (and possibly floating state) in the environment > can eliminate the need for regex based client matching, I still would like > to segregate windows from the same process with different tags. > I was wondering if X11 supports some kind of window metadata atom which the > window manager could use to store some custom data? Dwm could just publish > the tags for a window there and use it on a restart.
You will find such implementation in the hg log. Afair shortly before the 4.4 or 4.5 release (I don't remember exactly anymore about the details). Anyway, I dropped the idea, because dwm is not intended being restarted that frequently which would justify tag persistence in an X property based way. Regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe >< http://www.suckless.org/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361
