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1 swallow
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4 Description
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6 This patch adds "window swallowing" to dwm as known from Plan 9's window…
7 system `rio`.
8
9 Clients marked with `isterminal` in config.h swallow a window opened by …
10 child process, e.g. running `xclock` in a terminal. Closing the `xclock`…
11 restores the terminal window in the current position.
12
13 This patch helps users spawning a lot of graphical programs from their c…
14 line by avoiding cluttering the screen with many unusable terminals. Bei…
15 down in a directory hierarchy just does not make the use of dmenu feasib…
16
17 Dependencies
18 ------------
19 * libxcb
20 * Xlib-libxcb
21 * xcb-res
22
23 These dependencies are needed due to the use of the latest revision of t…
24 Resource Extension which is unsupported in vanilla Xlib.
25
26 Download
27 --------
28 * [dwm-swallow-6.3.diff](dwm-swallow-6.3.diff)
29 * [dwm-swallow-6.2.diff](dwm-swallow-6.2.diff)
30 * [dwm-swallow-6.1.diff](dwm-swallow-6.1.diff)
31 * [dwm-swallow-20201211-61bb8b2.diff](dwm-swallow-20201211-61bb8b2.diff)
32 * [dwm-swallow-20200807-b2de9b0.diff](dwm-swallow-20200807-b2de9b0.diff)
33 * [dwm-swallow-20200707-8d1e703.diff](dwm-swallow-20200707-8d1e703.diff)
34 * [dwm-swallow-20200522-7accbcf.diff](dwm-swallow-20200522-7accbcf.diff)
35 * [dwm-swallow-20170909-ceac8c9.diff](dwm-swallow-20170909-ceac8c9.diff)
36 * [dwm-swallow-20160717-56a31dc.diff](dwm-swallow-20160717-56a31dc.diff)
37
38 Notes
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40 The window swallowing functionality requires `dwm` to walk the process t…
41 which is an inherently OS-specific task. Please contact one of the autho…
42 if you would like to help expand the list of supported operating systems.
43
44 Only terminals created by local processes can swallow windows, and only …
45 created by local processes can be swallowed.
46
47 Authors
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49 * Rob King - <[email protected]>
50 * Laslo Hunhold - <[email protected]> (6.1, git port)
51 * Petr Ĺ abata - <[email protected]> (bugfixes)
52 * wtl - <[email protected]> (bugfixes)
53 * John Wilkes - <[email protected]> (bugfixes)
54 * Ben Raskin - <[email protected]> (OpenBSD support)
55 * Tom Schwindl - <[email protected]> (6.3 port)
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