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1 nmaster 2 ======= 3 4 History 5 ------- 6 This patch restores the ability to have multiple clients in the master area of 7 the tiled layout. This feature was dropped from vanilla dwm in version 4.4. The 8 ntile mode from below is included in dwm as of version 6.0. 9 10 Description 11 ----------- 12 The figures show how tiling will work when the patch is applied. 13 14 ntile (-|=) 15 +----------+------+ 16 | | | 17 | +------+ 18 |----------| | 19 | +------+ 20 | | | 21 +----------+------+ 22 23 nbstack (-|-) 24 +--------+--------+ 25 | | | 26 | | | 27 |-----+--+--+-----+ 28 | | | | 29 | | | | 30 +-----+-----+-----+ 31 32 Usage 33 ----- 34 * Download `nmaster.c` into the source directory of dwm. 35 * Add `nmaster` default value to your `config.h`. 36 * Include `nmaster.c` in `config.h` after the definition of `nmaster`. 37 * Add `ntile` and/or `nbstack` to your layouts. 38 * Add keybindings to `incnmaster` and/or `setnmaster` to your `config.h`. 39 40 Example 41 ------- 42 static const int nmaster = 2; /* default number of clients in the master area */ 43 44 #include "nmaster.c" 45 46 static const Layout layouts[] = { 47 /* symbol arrange function */ 48 { "-|=", ntile }, 49 { "-|-", nbstack }, 50 ... 51 52 static Key keys[] = { 53 /* modifier key function argument */ 54 { MODKEY, XK_a, incnmaster, {.i = +1 } }, 55 { MODKEY, XK_z, incnmaster, {.i = -1 } }, 56 { MODKEY, XK_x, setnmaster, {.i = 2 } }, 57 { MODKEY, XK_t, setlayout, {.v = &layouts[0] } }, 58 { MODKEY, XK_b, setlayout, {.v = &layouts[1] } }, 59 ... 60 61 Download 62 -------- 63 * [nmaster-ncol.c](nmaster-ncol.c) (dwm 5.9) (20101210) - additional ncol layout (multiple masters side by side) 64 * [nmaster-sym.c](nmaster-sym.c) (dwm 5.7.1) (20090927) - layout symbol shows the number of masters: `n]=`, `TnT` 65 * [nmaster.c](nmaster.c) (dwm 5.6.1) (20090908) 66 * see older versions in [historical patches](../historical/)