From 630859138bb960e2aea41d47e68c48ec020daf5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ben evolver <>
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2022 08:07:24 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] add alternative symbols for nr. of active clients in monocle layout

---
 config.def.h | 4 ++++
 dwm.c        | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/config.def.h b/config.def.h
index a2ac963..f49dfdf 100644
--- a/config.def.h
+++ b/config.def.h
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ static const Layout layouts[] = {
 	{ "[M]",      monocle },
 };
 
+/* custom symbols for nr. of clients in monocle layout */
+/* when clients >= LENGTH(monocles), uses the last element */
+static const char *monocles[] = { "[1]", "[2]", "[3]", "[4]", "[5]", "[6]", "[7]", "[8]", "[9]", "[9+]" };
+
 /* key definitions */
 #define MODKEY Mod1Mask
 #define TAGKEYS(KEY,TAG) \
diff --git a/dwm.c b/dwm.c
index 0fc328a..e47ba70 100644
--- a/dwm.c
+++ b/dwm.c
@@ -1116,7 +1116,7 @@ monocle(Monitor *m)
 		if (ISVISIBLE(c))
 			n++;
 	if (n > 0) /* override layout symbol */
-		snprintf(m->ltsymbol, sizeof m->ltsymbol, "[%d]", n);
+		snprintf(m->ltsymbol, sizeof m->ltsymbol, "%s", monocles[MIN(n, LENGTH(monocles)) - 1]);
 	for (c = nexttiled(m->clients); c; c = nexttiled(c->next))
 		resize(c, m->wx, m->wy, m->ww - 2 * c->bw, m->wh - 2 * c->bw, 0);
 }
-- 
2.35.1