Excerpts from Ciprian Dorin, Craciun's message of Tue Nov 23 20:34:04 +0100 2010: > Well I like `dmenu` for two very important reasons: first it is > simple and solves only one problem (thus suckless :) ), and second it > looks really slick. (It fits as a glove with the `i3` window manager, > and I like that it always positions itself at the bottom of the > screen, plus it allows me to customize the colors from the command > line.) First of all, dmenu is a menu, not a message-displayer. The xmessage colors can be configured from ~/.Xdefaults. See here[1] for an example.
> So I wouldn't say that `xmessage` doesn't solve the problem of > displaying messages, but unfortunately it looks really ugly (I would > say that this is a feature because it should be used as a last resort > tool), and secondly it is maximized by `i3` thus covering the entire > screen. you could however use either dzen as alternative or hack the dmenu code to become some sort of ``suckless message display''. dmenu happens to be a menu after all. I hope this helps you. Best regards, Moritz [1] http://up.barfooze.de/starf-201011232048.png
