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Stein 44adafe006 Make floating windows spawn within the monitor's window area
This is a follow-up on this thread:
https://lists.suckless.org/hackers/2208/18462.html

The orginal code had constraints such that if a window's starting
attributes (position and size) were to place the window outside of
the edges of the monitor, then the window would be moved into view
at the closest monitor edge.

There was an exception to this where if a top bar is used then the
window should not obscure the bar if present, which meant to place
the window within the window area instead.

The proposed change here makes it the general rule that floating
windows should spawn within the window area rather than within the
monitor area. This makes it simple and consistent with no
exceptions and it makes the intention of the code clear.

This has the benefit of making the behaviour consistent regardless
of whether the user is using a top bar or a bottom bar.

Additionally this will have an effect on patches that modify the
size of the window area. For example if the insets patch is used to
reserve space on the left hand side of the monitor for a dock or a
vertical bar then new floating clients will not obscure that area.
2022-08-12 09:02:34 +02:00
LICENSE LICENSE: add Chris Down 2022-04-26 15:50:32 +02:00
Makefile Makefile: just show the compiler output 2018-06-02 17:10:28 +02:00
README update README: remove mentioning the old dextra repo 2018-03-14 21:03:11 +01:00
config.def.h Add a configuration option for fullscreen locking 2021-07-14 11:26:37 +02:00
config.mk Makefile: add manual path for OpenBSD 2022-05-01 18:37:54 +02:00
drw.c sync latest drw.{c,h} changes from dmenu 2022-05-10 19:07:56 +02:00
drw.h sync latest drw.{c,h} changes from dmenu 2022-05-10 19:07:56 +02:00
dwm.1 dwm.1: fix wrong text in man page 2020-07-08 18:05:50 +02:00
dwm.c Make floating windows spawn within the monitor's window area 2022-08-12 09:02:34 +02:00
dwm.png alternate dwm.png 2006-07-19 14:49:19 +02:00
transient.c applied Peter Hartlichs nice interim Xinerama and map fix patches, for debugging purposes I also added his transient test driver 2011-07-29 20:01:22 +02:00
util.c sync code-style patch from libsl 2022-08-08 10:43:09 +02:00
util.h import new drw from libsl and minor fixes. 2016-06-26 13:52:36 +02:00

README

dwm - dynamic window manager
============================
dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.


Requirements
------------
In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files.


Installation
------------
Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into
the /usr/local namespace by default).

Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if
necessary as root):

    make clean install


Running dwm
-----------
Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx:

    exec dwm

In order to connect dwm to a specific display, make sure that
the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.:

    DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm

(This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.)

In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something
like this in your .xinitrc:

    while xsetroot -name "`date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`"
    do
    	sleep 1
    done &
    exec dwm


Configuration
-------------
The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h
and (re)compiling the source code.