On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Mario Pastorelli < pastorelli.mario@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm trying to figure out why ShowWName doesn't use the dzen module to show the workspace name, what is the rule to use dzen instead of createNewWindow (for example) and why?

Last I checked, dzen didn't have a way to remove itself after a timeout; if you want to do that, or you otherwise want to manipulate the window (say, update or remove and post a new one of the user immediately changes workspaces again), it's far easier to create it internally and pass the XID around than it is to try to find/save the XID via the ManageHook. Especially if you don't want the window to be managed otherwise. (Note that, for the same reason you can't tell apps to start on a specific workspace directly, you can't get an XID out of spawning an application; it isn't known until the window is created, and not identifiable as belonging to a particular application until the window is actually mapped, and the ManageHook will receive it at that point.) -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net