[dev] [dwm] Optional status bar

2012-01-28 Thread Tom Vincent
I run dwm with the status bar hidden by default. I don't want to be distracted with system info through xsetroot nor need to see the window title. Often, I'll forget about open applications in other tags so sometimes toggle the status bar to find an active tag (NB, is there an equivalent to xmonad'

Re: [dev] [dwm] Optional status bar

2012-01-28 Thread Tom Vincent
Thanks for the discussion. It seems we can conclude targeting ewmh/icccm is out of the question. How about a new "suckless" protocol between dwm and its status bar? Much like dmenu handles launching, there's still scope in separating the status bar. Perhaps a compile-time option to disable it com

[dev] [dmenu] Persistent options

2013-03-06 Thread Tom Vincent
Apologies if this has already been discussed but is there a preferred way of persistently passing options to dmenu? Previously I was overriding the dmenu bin with a script of the same name with some options, e.g.: $ cat ~/bin/dmenu /usr/bin/dmenu -i -nb #101010 In dmenu-tools[1] (a collection of

Re: [dev] [dmenu] Persistent options

2013-03-06 Thread Tom Vincent
On 6 March 2013 21:25, Yoshi Rokuko wrote: > you set "persistent options" at compile time. OK. How about shared runtime options?

Re: [dev] [dmenu] Persistent options

2013-03-09 Thread Tom Vincent
You're right. I hadn't fully considered "building in" options nor actually realised it could be done in dmenu (even though I'm a dwm user). Thanks for pointing out to me.