On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 12:37:06PM -0800, Anselm Garbe wrote: > On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 at 10:27, aleks <aleks.st...@icloud.com> wrote: > > 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 always thought it was odd having dmenu-specific code in dwm.c. I suggested making it generic so you could pass the monitor to any command. https://lists.suckless.org/hackers/1612/13797.html > 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. I think warping the pointer makes more sense. I would really prefer to have https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/warp/ in mainline. Just my thoughts. -- - Ian.
