On Sat 28 Jan 2012 09:03:26 PM PST, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > Þann lau 28.jan 2012 19:13, skrifaði Tom Vincent: > > targeting ewmh/icccm is out of the question. How about a new > > "suckless" protocol between dwm and its status bar? > > _NET_WM_TYPE_DOCK support and XEmbed tag switcher would do half > the job. A XID would still have to be sent. Any more complicated > protocol would have to go over DBus, which is not an option.
DBus is overkill. A named pipe or UNIX domain socket would suffice. -- Long computations which yield zero are probably all for naught.