commit 1d29a1e30201d15fb6cd7bce76013a77679f29b0 parent d95dad2344430af67f45f6bf0db0171afe2e4c7a Author: Michael Buch <michaelbuch12@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2019 18:00:06 +0000 Add constraint under which patch does not work; also remove dead link Diffstat:
| M | dwm.suckless.org/patches/spawn_cwd/index.md | | | 11 | ++++++++--- |
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/dwm.suckless.org/patches/spawn_cwd/index.md b/dwm.suckless.org/patches/spawn_cwd/index.md @@ -4,9 +4,14 @@ spawn\_cwd Description ----------- Spawns programs from currently focused client's working directory. See this -[blog post](https://sunaku.github.io/dwm-spawn-cwd-patch.html) and this -[announcement thread](http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.misc.suckless/7959) -for more information. +[blog post](https://sunaku.github.io/dwm-spawn-cwd-patch.html) for more information. + +Currently the patch does not spawn into the cwd when the path +to the working directory is 15 characters of length. For example +spawning a new shell from a directory called ~/abcdefghijklm will +open the shell in the home directory instead. This happens because +the cwd to open is taken from the dwm status which gets truncated at a +certain depth using ellipses (.../path/to/long/dir/name). Download --------