DWM and xwinwrap

Hello there.
I am using xwinwrap to run a video as my wallpaper, but dwm keep showing it in the pager and the video only runs on one desktop.
I have no idea how to show the same video on all desktops.
Any help?

Ah, the desktop-tag-thing.
So i must edit this?
static const Rule rules[] = {
/* class instance title tags mask isfloating monitor */
{ "Gimp", NULL, NULL, 0, True, -1 },
{ "Firefox", NULL, NULL, 1 << 8, False, -1 },
I moved to dwm recently, so i am dont know exactly how it works.
xwinwrap puts a window as wallpaper, something like that, or just leave the specified window borderless, sticky, unmovable, something like that. I use mplayer to run the video and xwinwrap puts it as wallpaper.
@ Off topic.
Do you solve rubiks cube?
Last edited by granada (2013-02-01 19:10:43)

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As in:
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[Solved] DWM and extra key's.

Hello.
I'm using DWM and now I have new keyboard with extra kyes Audio Mute, Raise or Lower volume you know
I tried:
showkey
And I have my key in .Xmodmap , I typed:
/path/to/.Xmodmap
and all was ok
And typed xmodmap and my keys was in mod4 section , this is the output of xmodmap:
xmodmap: up to 4 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):
shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e)
lock Caps_Lock (0x42)
control Control_L (0x25), Control_R (0x6d)
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Now I care to play with config.h of my DWM.
Here is part of it:
{ MODKEY, XF86AudioRaiseVolume, spawn, SHCMD("exec mpc volume -5")}
And when I tried to compile it with that config I got following errors:
In file included from dwm.c:271:
config.h:41: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'Key'
config.h:65: warning: ISO C does not allow extra ';' outside of a function
config.h:69: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'Button'
config.h:80: warning: ISO C does not allow extra ';' outside of a function
dwm.c: In function 'buttonpress':
dwm.c:440: error: 'buttons' undeclared (first use in this function)
dwm.c:440: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
dwm.c:440: error: for each function it appears in.)
dwm.c: In function 'grabbuttons':
dwm.c:929: error: 'buttons' undeclared (first use in this function)
dwm.c: In function 'grabkeys':
dwm.c:952: error: 'keys' undeclared (first use in this function)
dwm.c: In function 'keypress':
dwm.c:1020: error: 'keys' undeclared (first use in this function)
make: *** [dwm.o] Errpr 1
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SpeedVin wrote:
Tillotson wrote:/* See /* appearance */
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Alt-F2
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Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 08:29:01
From: Anselm R Garbe
To: dev mail list
Subject: Re: [dev] flash fullscreen issue (dwm-5.7.2)
2009/12/7 Alexandr Krylovskiy:
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[SOLVED]dwm and Diablo II?

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