From: Jason Woofenden <jason@jasonwoof.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 21:20:36 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: splain WORKSPACE_NUMBER
X-Git-Url: https://jasonwoof.com/gitweb/?p=dwm.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=00ccca79cb9e2ebe4714e8dca6ad414292d3feb4

splain WORKSPACE_NUMBER
---

diff --git a/config.def.h b/config.def.h
index af735d8..2dc0620 100644
--- a/config.def.h
+++ b/config.def.h
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ static const Bool topbar            = True;     /* False means bottom bar */
 
 /* tagging */
 static const char *tags[] = { "`", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "0", "[", "]" };
+// the ENV var WORKSPACE_NUMBER (passed to terminal) will use these names instead:
 static const char *workspace_numbers_str[] = { "0", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10", "11", "12" };
 
 #define TBC(tag, wclass) { wclass, NULL, NULL, 1 << tag, False, False, -1 },
@@ -35,7 +36,7 @@ static const Rule rules[] = {
 	SHBC( 2, "org-openstreetmap-josm-Main") // Josm (both splash and main window)
 	SHBC( 5, "Gimp")
 	// Tag By Title (matches prefix)
-	// These rules are used to keep terminals in the right workspace accross dwm restarts
+	// These rules are used to keep terminals in the right workspace (tag) accross dwm restarts
 	// Put something like this in your .zshrc:
 	//     function preexec { echo -ne "\033]0;w$WORKSPACE_NUMBER: $1\a"; }
 	//     function precmd { echo -ne "\033]0;w$WORKSPACE_NUMBER: $PWD\a"; }
@@ -80,7 +81,7 @@ static const Layout layouts[] = {
 static char dmenumon[2] = "0"; /* component of dmenucmd, manipulated in spawn() */
 //static const char *dmenucmd[] = { "dmenu_run", "-m", dmenumon, "-fn", font, "-nb", normbgcolor, "-nf", normfgcolor, "-sb", selbgcolor, "-sf", selfgcolor, NULL };
 static const char *dmenucmd[] = { "dmenu_run", "-fn", font, "-nb", normbgcolor, "-nf", normfgcolor, "-sb", selbgcolor, "-sf", selfgcolor, NULL };
-char WORKSPACE_NUMBER[] = "WORKSPACE_NUMBER=00";
+char WORKSPACE_NUMBER[] = "WORKSPACE_NUMBER=00"; // if you change the _length_ of this string, update spawn() in dwm.c. This is the ENV var passed to your terminal. The value is pulled from workspace_numbers_str based on the active tag.
 static const char *termcmd[]  = { "env", (const char *)(&(WORKSPACE_NUMBER[0])), "st", NULL };
 
 static Key keys[] = {