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Diffstat (limited to 'dwm.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | dwm.h | 34 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 20 deletions
@@ -5,30 +5,24 @@ * dynamic window manager is designed like any other X client as well. It is * driven through handling X events. In contrast to other X clients, a window * manager like dwm selects for SubstructureRedirectMask on the root window, to - * receive events about child window appearance and disappearance. Only one X + * receive events about window appearance and disappearance. Only one X * connection at a time is allowed to select for this event mask. * - * Calls to fetch an X event from the event queue of the X connection are - * blocking. Due the fact, that dwm reads status text from standard input, a - * select-driven main loop has been implemented which selects for reads on the - * X connection and STDIN_FILENO to handle all data smoothly and without - * busy-loop quirks. The event handlers of dwm are organized in an array which - * is accessed whenever a new event has been fetched. This allows event - * dispatching in O(1) time. + * Calls to fetch an X event from the X event queue connection are blocking. + * Due reading status text from standard input, a select-driven main loop has + * been implemented which selects for reads on the X connection and + * STDIN_FILENO to handle all data smoothly and without busy-loop quirks. The + * event handlers of dwm are organized in an array which is accessed whenever a + * new event has been fetched. This allows event dispatching in O(1) time. * - * Each child window of the root window is called a client in window manager - * terminology, except windows which have set the override_redirect flag. - * Clients are organized in a global doubly-linked client list, the focus - * history is remembered through a global stack list. Each client contains an - * array of Bools of the same size as the global tags array to indicate the - * tags of a client. There are no other data structures to organize the clients - * in tag lists. All clients which have at least one tag enabled of the current - * tags viewed, will be visible on the screen, all other clients are banned to - * the x-location x + 2 * screen width. This avoids having additional layers - * of workspace handling. + * Each child of the root window is called a client, except windows which have + * set the override_redirect flag. Clients are organized in a global + * doubly-linked client list, the focus history is remembered through a global + * stack list. Each client contains an array of Bools of the same size as the + * global tags array to indicate the tags of a client. For each client dwm + * creates a small title window which is resized whenever the WM_NAME or + * _NET_WM_NAME properties are updated or the client is resized. * - * For each client dwm creates a small title window which is resized whenever - * the WM_NAME or _NET_WM_NAME properties are updated or the client is resized. * Keys and tagging rules are organized as arrays and defined in the config.h * file. These arrays are kept static in event.o and tag.o respectively, * because no other part of dwm needs access to them. The current mode is |