backporting my intro-comment of old dwm.h
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| 1 | - | /* See LICENSE file for copyright and license details. */ |
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| 1 | + | /* See LICENSE file for copyright and license details. |
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| 2 | + | * |
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| 3 | + | * dynamic window manager is designed like any other X client as well. It is |
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| 4 | + | * driven through handling X events. In contrast to other X clients, a window |
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| 5 | + | * manager selects for SubstructureRedirectMask on the root window, to receive |
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| 6 | + | * events about window (dis-)appearance. Only one X connection at a time is |
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| 7 | + | * allowed to select for this event mask. |
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| 8 | + | * |
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| 9 | + | * Calls to fetch an X event from the event queue are blocking. Due reading |
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| 10 | + | * status text from standard input, a select()-driven main loop has been |
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| 11 | + | * implemented which selects for reads on the X connection and STDIN_FILENO to |
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| 12 | + | * handle all data smoothly. The event handlers of dwm are organized in an |
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| 13 | + | * array which is accessed whenever a new event has been fetched. This allows |
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| 14 | + | * event dispatching in O(1) time. |
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| 15 | + | * |
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| 16 | + | * Each child of the root window is called a client, except windows which have |
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| 17 | + | * set the override_redirect flag. Clients are organized in a global |
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| 18 | + | * doubly-linked client list, the focus history is remembered through a global |
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| 19 | + | * stack list. Each client contains an array of Bools of the same size as the |
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| 20 | + | * global tags array to indicate the tags of a client. For each client dwm |
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| 21 | + | * creates a small title window, which is resized whenever the (_NET_)WM_NAME |
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| 22 | + | * properties are updated or the client is moved/resized. |
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| 23 | + | * |
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| 24 | + | * Keys and tagging rules are organized as arrays and defined in the config.h |
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| 25 | + | * file. These arrays are kept static in event.o and tag.o respectively, |
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| 26 | + | * because no other part of dwm needs access to them. The current layout is |
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| 27 | + | * represented by the lt pointer. |
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| 28 | + | * |
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| 29 | + | * To understand everything else, start reading main(). |
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| 30 | + | */ |
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| 2 | 31 | #include <errno.h> |
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| 3 | 32 | #include <locale.h> |
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| 4 | 33 | #include <regex.h> |