On 2011-10-16, Kurt H Maier <karmaf...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Bjartur Thorlacius > <svartma...@gmail.com> wrote: >> First, docking is generally useful for panels. Dwm sucks as a status >> bar. Should the information displayed in the status bar not be >> properties on the root window to dwm? A panel can then keep track of >> _NET_NUMBER_OF_DESKTOPS = 2^(NUMBER_OF_TAGS)-1 (or just >> NUMBER_OF_TAGS) and perhaps the current layout. > > Panels are a part of a different interface paradigm. dwm does not > have desktops. This is another example of software that shouldn't be > crammed into dwm.
Perhaps you missed the exponential blowup he suggested. I would think you'ld *like* setting _NET_NUMBER_OF_DESKTOPS to 2^10 by default. Most pagers should explode quite spectacularly with that many virtual desktops. Robert Ransom
