Disable borders

[moritzmhmk]

Thank you for this awesome tool!

I think it would be nice to have an option to disable the borders without stopping the borders service, since for my setup I will be enabling and disabling borders often.

I could set the width to 0.0 but will it actually stop borders from rendering anything? I think an option like "style=none" could be a nice addition without introducing new settings.

[Bellavene]

Why not just kill borders if not needed?

[moritzmhmk]

Killing borders works fine but starting it again adds a slight delay and sometimes a short flicker.

I have configured my wm to have four modes:

• normal mode (no borders)
• focus mode (blue border, hjkl moves focus)
• move mode (purple border, hjkl moves window)
• join mode (red border, hjkl joins windows)

In normal mode I like to have no borders and when switching to focus mode regularly even a slight delay is very disturbing.

[Bellavene]

In that situation, I would just set borders color to transparent, so it will avoid any flickering or delay.

[moritzmhmk]

This actually works better than setting the width to 0 (no more flickering), but it still feels like you're wasting resources by tracking the focused window and drawing the transparent border - but that may not be a real problem.

[Bellavene]

Yeah, I don't see any real problem, neither.

[FelixKratz]

You could also use the whitelist for that and create an entry which has no matches to disable the tracking of all windows. However, having style=none is a good idea and is actually very easy to implement. So I would accept a PR for this.