Window names are limited to 64 characters.

[spectrwm] / spectrwm.1

diff --git a/spectrwm.1 b/spectrwm.1
index 1d14842241821b30559f5f03e1a7dc943d853647..a925b722a0434f84b068344e021081b3ec4f00c4 100644 (file)
--- a/spectrwm.1
+++ b/spectrwm.1
@@ -104,7 +104,9 @@ Status bar font.
 Color of the font in status bar in screen
 .Ar x .
 .It Ic bar_format
-Set the bar_format string and override all of the
+Set the bar_format string and overrides
+.Ic clock_format
+and all of the
 .Ic enabled
 options.
 The format is passed through
@@ -126,6 +128,8 @@ It may contain the following character sequences:
 .It Li "++" Ta "A literal" Ql +
 .El
 .Pp
+All character sequences may limit its output to a specific length, for example
++64A.
 Any characters that don't match the specification are copied as-is.
 .It Ic bar_justify
 Justify the status bar text. Possible values are
@@ -301,6 +305,12 @@ Enable by setting to 1.
 .It Ic window_name_enabled
 Enable or disable displaying the window name in the status bar.
 Enable by setting to 1.
+.Pp
+To prevent excessively large window names from pushing the remaining text off
+the screen, it's limited to 64 characters, by default.
+See the
+.Ic bar_format
+option for more details.
 .It Ic workspace_limit
 Set the total number of workspaces available.  Minimum is 1, maximum is 22.
 .El