2009/4/25, yy <[email protected]>: > There is a middle way solution. I just thought about it, and will > probably have its drawbacks, but here it goes: keep a bar with only > the tags and tile symbol and print the sel client title to stdout. > This way you can use an external program (dzen) to render the title > (and status text, of course). I don't think nobody needs unicode > glyphs in their tag names or tile symbols, you wouldn't need cairo in > dwm (but could add it to dzen) and would remove a lot of loc getting > ride of status text and window title.
One can export tag names, active tags, layout and active window via root window properties, and handle them with a bunch of shell scripts and dzen2, like it's done in echinus.
