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scrolled clock for dynamic window manager

Posted by Rafal Zawadzki at Jun 17, 2010 06:10 PM |

description of the small but useful tool - scrolled clock (C - libaosd-text hack)

scrolled clock for dynamic window manager

dynamic window manager

 "simplicity is the final achievement" by Frederic Chopin

 

It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts. All of the layouts can be applied dynamically, optimising the environment for the application in use and the task performed.  
http://dwm.suckless.org/

Probably everyone has his own favourite window manager. I have my own as well - it is dynamic window manager (dwm) - very small, well designed, fast, stable and useful. It works as one binary and it's customizasble through editing headers file (recompilation/rerun is needed). Why I am using it, why it is useful?

 

Well, in my work I am using mainly keyboard  (simplify - I am writing the code). In dwm I can control my graphic environment in 100% using only keyboard. Another thing - dwm takes care of all things related to window management - resizing, on top, bottom, snap to border etc - with dwm you don't have to think about it.And simplicity - there is nothing which can distract you (no popups, trays, flashing clocks and similar)..

You can read more about it on it's webpage

In my config, most significant changes - I set ModKey to WinKey (none of my application was using this key) , I added new function to switch to next two windows and rescale last one. You can also find there shortcut to my scrolled clock (which appeared on screen on demand):

static const char *clockcmd[]  = { "/home/bluszcz/usr/hacks/bin/scroller", NULL };

which is nothing more than simply hack one of examples from libaosd-text library... You can find sources here.

 

 

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