On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 10:50:13PM +0200, thuban wrote: > However, I'm surprised that this is not the default use of dwm. It is > supposed to be suckless, and on my own, I think having "opened tags" > that are useless (meaning with no window inside) sucks at least a > little.
Except that open empty tags aren't really a 'thing', or at least not as much of one as you seem to think. Tags are bit positions of an unsigned int that can be set/unset on each client and on each monitor. I hope that you're not proposing that a bit position shouldn't exist when nothing has it set. Those labels without any boxes on them are maybe wasting a bit of status bar real estate (but not enough that I ever notice) and maybe arguably the space to store the string but little else that can be helped short of using a smaller datatype for your bit array if that's really bugging you. In summary: unless your primary concern is how much stuff gets printed to the status bar, your problem seems to have a lot more to do with perception than with how dwm actually works.
