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* dynamic window manager is designed like any other X client as well. It is |
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* driven through handling X events. In contrast to other X clients, a window |
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* manager like dwm selects for SubstructureRedirectMask on the root window, to |
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* receive events about window appearance and disappearance. Only one X |
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* connection at a time is allowed to select for this event mask. |
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* manager selects for SubstructureRedirectMask on the root window, to receive |
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* events about window (dis-)appearance. Only one X connection at a time is |
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* allowed to select for this event mask. |
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* |
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* Calls to fetch an X event from the X event queue connection are blocking. |
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* Due reading status text from standard input, a select-driven main loop has |
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* been implemented which selects for reads on the X connection and |
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* STDIN_FILENO to handle all data smoothly and without busy-loop quirks. The |
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* event handlers of dwm are organized in an array which is accessed whenever a |
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* new event has been fetched. This allows event dispatching in O(1) time. |
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* Calls to fetch an X event from the event queue are blocking. Due reading |
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* status text from standard input, a select-driven main loop has been |
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* implemented which selects for reads on the X connection and STDIN_FILENO to |
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* handle all data smoothly. The event handlers of dwm are organized in an |
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* array which is accessed whenever a new event has been fetched. This allows |
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* event dispatching in O(1) time. |
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* |
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* Each child of the root window is called a client, except windows which have |
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* set the override_redirect flag. Clients are organized in a global |
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* doubly-linked client list, the focus history is remembered through a global |
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* stack list. Each client contains an array of Bools of the same size as the |
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* global tags array to indicate the tags of a client. For each client dwm |
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* creates a small title window which is resized whenever the WM_NAME or |
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* _NET_WM_NAME properties are updated or the client is resized. |
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* creates a small title window, which is resized whenever the (_NET_)WM_NAME |
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* properties are updated or the client is moved/resized. |
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* |
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* Keys and tagging rules are organized as arrays and defined in the config.h |
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* file. These arrays are kept static in event.o and tag.o respectively, |
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* because no other part of dwm needs access to them. The current mode is |
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* represented by the arrange function pointer which wether points to dofloat |
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* represented by the arrange function pointer, which wether points to dofloat |
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* or dotile. |
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* |
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* To understand everything else, start with reading main.c:main(). |
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* To understand everything else, start reading main.c:main(). |
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*/ |
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#include "config.h" |
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