[SOLVED] DWM Appearance Section

Jimi · 2009-10-27 01:26:18

Thanks for reading,

I'm not really sure whether I should post here, or just straight to suckless, but oh well. I recently began learning C, and using DWM. Allow me to get to the point: can someone help me understand a bit more about the appearance section?

Here's mine:

/* appearance */
static const char font[]            = "-*-proggyoptis-medium-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*";
static const char normbordercolor[] = "#8ba574";
static const char normbgcolor[]     = "#212121";
static const char normfgcolor[]     = "#b8b8b8";
static const char normurgentcolor[] = "#3399ff";
static const char selbordercolor[]  = "#8ba574";
static const char selbgcolor[]      = "#212121";
static const char selfgcolor[]      = "#8ba574";
static const char selurgentcolor[]  = "#3399ff";
static const unsigned int borderpx  = 0;        /*  border pixel of windows */
static const unsigned int snap      = 10;       /*  snap pixel */
static const Bool showbar           = True;     /*  False means no bar */
static const Bool topbar            = True;     /*  False means bottom bar */
/* static const Bool readin            = True; */    /*  False means do not read stdin */

I feel like a couple things are missing, like for example if someone messages me on Pidgin (in another workspace) the tag inverts to ugly default colors.

If anyone could kindly just explain a bit more and maybe recommend a few more settings, I'd really appreciate it.

Last edited by Jimi (2009-10-28 00:43:41)

SamC · 2009-10-27 03:22:57

Where did you get the idea that your *urgentcolor lines would do anything? The inversion is just the default way of DWM to show urgent workspaces - to change it, you would have to hack on the source a bit.

Edit: Actually, what version of DWM are you using? I'm pretty sure DWM can't read STDIN, either.

Last edited by SamC (2009-10-27 03:23:36)

Jimi · 2009-10-27 05:07:39

5.7.2, I copied a bit from a couple other places so some of it might not even be doing anything... :$

SamC · 2009-10-27 05:43:29

Yeah, the urgent lines don't do anything. Make your changes based on the latest config.def.h file.

Jimi · 2009-10-28 00:43:30

SamC wrote:

Yeah, the urgent lines don't do anything. Make your changes based on the latest config.def.h file.

Yea thanks, I cleaned things up--turns out I was just needing a patch called statuscolors.

http://dwm.suckless.org/patches/statuscolors

Last edited by Jimi (2009-10-28 00:44:00)

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[SOLVED] DWM Appearance Section

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