[Feature] use only application icon as window title

bakkeby / dwm-flexipatch

A dwm build with preprocessor directives to decide which patches to include during build time

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[Feature] use only application icon as window title #416

Open Zerogaku opened 7 months ago

Zerogaku commented 7 months ago

When using the winicon patch is it possible to disable the title/text and keep only the icon? I kinda imagined enabling BAR_WINICON_PATCH and disabling BAR_WINTITLE_PATCH possibly doing that.

bakkeby commented 7 months ago

As-is no, but it wouldn't be hard to create a module that only shows the window icon.

The main issue with that is practicality; not all windows will have an icon and it would make it difficult to differentiate between, say, three terminal windows that has the same icon.

One compromise could be to use the fancybar behaviour (where it doesn't use more space than needed) and only show the icon for inactive windows and the icon + full title for the currently focused window.

Zerogaku commented 7 months ago

yeah it's more of an aesthetic thing than a functional thing, at least for me most of the apps i use have an icon, I'm guessing another solution is to manually add icons for apps that don't have them, or just use a default generic icon for applications that don't come with an icon.