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TrilbyWhite / alopex

A tabbed tiling window manager, with fur.
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Two status bars. #44

Closed KenjiTakahashi closed 10 years ago

KenjiTakahashi commented 11 years ago

Any chance for this? Seriously, one bar is not enough ;-).

TrilbyWhite commented 11 years ago

What do you mean? You can have as much information as you want in the status bar.

KenjiTakahashi commented 11 years ago

I mean having two of them, e.g. one on top and the other one on bottom. Because on one bar I can have as much info as fits in it's size, right? And I tend to display many things on status bars :).

HalosGhost commented 11 years ago

Actually, this is a cool idea and leads to some interesting possibilities. For instance, having the tags/tabs on one bar and the status area on another.

TrilbyWhite commented 11 years ago

I'm going through my github issues and wanted to update this - even though I have no substantial update.

I haven't forgotten this, I'm just brainstorming what a suitable way to do this would be in order to allow flexibility to select where to put the tabs, the tags, and the status info without adding a lot of overhead for those who didn't want to use such options.

KenjiTakahashi commented 11 years ago

I'm curious if you have plans to implement this somehow for v3? Would be super nice :).

TrilbyWhite commented 11 years ago

Yes, that is one of the plans. But there will be various ways in which it can be done.

There are two places where you can have user-specified status information: on the left or right of the main bar. In each of those places you can have up to 9 "segments" of user-defined status information, so you can have two segments flanking the tag information for example, then other segments on the other side.

This all still only uses one horizontal bar space, though - and that space is also used for window tabs. If you want an additional line for status, v3 will have an option for an additional bar that can include tags or user-specified statuses.

TrilbyWhite commented 10 years ago

In addition to having status bars on up to three tab bars in v4.0, I've also added "margins" to the configuration file which allow for reserved space on any of the four edges. This can allow for third party status bars, docks, and system trays.

Feel free to reopen this issue if this does not work as desired.