Re: [dev] diffdisplays

2013-05-01 Thread hiro
wtf, 20h.

Re: [dev] diffdisplays

2013-05-01 Thread Martti Kühne
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 1:54 AM, Carlos Torres wrote: > this doesn't have to be in dwm, i don't think it does anyway. fine, if you want to recompile dwm for a function you might want to use with other window managers of similar type. I guess a stand-alone program would do. :) cheers! mar77i

Re: [dev] diffdisplays

2013-05-01 Thread Truls Becken
In addition to what Carlos said about using damage evens and transparent overlays, you probably want some sort of notification of activity in windows not currently displayed on screen. This is similar to urgency wm hints, but triggered by window content change rather than explicit application re

Re: [dev] diffdisplays

2013-05-01 Thread Anselm R Garbe
Hi 20h, On 29 April 2013 18:34, Christoph Lohmann <2...@r-36.net> wrote: > on my news mailbox something interesting appeared [0]. Applying such a > »display diff« to a dwm tag would be interesting, to only show the new > difference from the last time it was switched to that tag. Making it a

Re: [dev] diffdisplays

2013-04-30 Thread Carlos Torres
I'm not an X11 expert, but this sounds like something that XRender and XDamage could do. i.e. overlay a semi transparent window over a screen where activity has timed out (?) and capture damage events and then have those events contribute an alpha channel change. I don't know whether the damage

[dev] diffdisplays

2013-04-29 Thread Christoph Lohmann
Greetings comrades, on my news mailbox something interesting appeared [0]. Applying such a »display diff« to a dwm tag would be interesting, to only show the new difference from the last time it was switched to that tag. Making it a common tool you can use to watch certain displays from one