You could always add in a conditional to make sure this situation never arises.
Especially in tiling mode, ‘accidentally’ spawning too many windows could crash
the window manager and all other running X applications with it.
> On 8 Apr 2019, at 11:01, Enan Ajmain <3nan.ajm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks, deruzen.
>
> About the part about 2*gappx exceeding width or height : In my case at
> least, it shouldn't be a problem. I use 2 personal computers and dwm
> needs to be built personally when installing. So, I need to set up the
> value of gappx manually anyway.
>
>> On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 2:14 AM deurzen <devr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Nothing wrong with that. Only situation in which this would crash is if
>> 2*gappx exceeds the width or height of the tiled area, obviously.
>>
>>> On 7 Apr 2019, at 16:15, Enan Ajmain <3nan.ajm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I am using dwm-tilegap-6.2 patch to get gaps around windows. But the
>>> gaps only show in tiling mode. I assumed that similar support for
>>> monocle mode could be easily hacked. Now, I changed the monocle
>>> function in `dwm.c` in the following way.
>>>
>>> ```
>>> void
>>> monocle(Monitor *m)
>>> {
>>> unsigned int n = 0;
>>> Client *c;
>>>
>>> for (c = m->clients; c; c = c->next)
>>> if (ISVISIBLE(c))
>>> n++;
>>> if (n > 0) /* override layout symbol */
>>> snprintf(m->ltsymbol, sizeof m->ltsymbol, "[%d]", n);
>>> for (c = nexttiled(m->clients); c; c = nexttiled(c->next))
>>> resize(c, m->wx + gappx, m->wy + gappx, m->ww - 2 * c->bw - 2 * gappx,
>>> m->wh - 2 * c->bw - 2 * gappx, 0);
>>> }
>>> ```
>>>
>>> You will see that the only change I have made is adding `gappx` amount
>>> of space to both `m->wx` and `m->wy` and subtracting `2 * gappx`
>>> amount of space from both `m->ww` and `m->wh`. It's very simple stuff.
>>> But due to my lack of experience, I wanted to make sure whether this
>>> will be in any way harmful. I don't want my window manager to crash
>>> when I need it. So, if someone could point out the faults if any, it
>>> would be much appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Enan Ajmain
>>>
>>
>
