Any way to dynamically change the workspace number?

[d00bay]

I've been using berrywm on my desktop computer which I built from src. I wanted to have 4 workspaces, I've simply changed WORKSPACE_NUMBER to 4.

I was wondering if there was a way to use berryc in autostart to change in at runtime?

If not, how big an effort would this be?

[JLErvin]

It's not super easy to change since the project makes pretty liberal usage of arrays to index workspaces. For instance, this is the list of all windows grouped by workspace:

berry/wm.c

Line 30 in c665902

static struct client *c_list[WORKSPACE_NUMBER]; /* 'stack' of managed clients in drawing order */

That being said, is there any reason to not just set the number much higher than you need? You can easily allocate 10 workspaces at compile-time and only use as many as you need. And if you find yourself needing more they will always be there.