Hi there, On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 at 10:27, aleks <aleks.st...@icloud.com> wrote: > The spawn method in dwm.c checks if the received argument is dmenucmd > and if so it sets the variable dmenumon (which is defined in config.h) > to the currectly selected monitor (at least thats what I think is > happening). > > It seems to me to be bad design that dmenu is intermingled with dwm so > deeply and that dmenu depends on dwm to detect to correct monitor.
I did apply this in 2013, the patch was written by Marti Kuehne. The reason was that one could leave the pointer on a different screen than the focused monitor, and when running dmenu, it wouldn't use the pointer location to determine the monitor of appearance. Since I switched back to single head years ago, I'd be open to discuss the need for this. It indeed seems like a hack. I often considered rearranging the code that the default dwm does not require multi monitor support. So I'd say the primary question is, if we want to keep the -m flag handling in dmenu or not. I suggest to drop it. Best regards, Anselm
