Re: Quite old patch adding new Test condition

2005-08-11 Thread Cameron Simpson
These names are | also tcl's expr operators, and you may find them in the test(1) man page. Where they are conveniently swapped in application. The "-lt" etc are numeric operators in test(1), because = and != are already taken for lexical comparison. -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Notification: incoming/1291

2005-08-31 Thread Cameron Simpson
rompts and so forth. So a title bar may be undesired by some people because it addes little value for them, yet they may still desire borders for demarcation purposes. (I eschew both, but I'm unusual). Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshostin

Re: Exec in fvwm

2002-01-16 Thread Cameron Simpson
none, because it's an ugly kludge. Now fork(), _that's_ standard. Maybe you meant "common". -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ It is the cunning of form to veil itself continually in the evidence of content. It is the cunning of t

Re: CVS domivogt: * New command "Schedule" that executes commands delayed. May be used to

2002-01-30 Thread Cameron Simpson
. Wouldn't it be work at least polling it every 100 or 1000 input events when busy? -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Politics - From the Greek Poly, meaning many, and the English Tics, meaning little blood sucking insects. - copyright

Re: CVS domivogt: * New command "Schedule" that executes commands delayed. May be used to

2002-01-30 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 12:10 31 Jan 2002, Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On 15:57 30 Jan 2002, Dominik Vogt wrote: | | Yes. At the moment, there are no guarantees when the scheduled | | code is executed though. The schedule table is processed only when | | no X events or module input is com

Re: request for IncludePath

2002-02-02 Thread Cameron Simpson
makes /var/apache and copies conf-dist into the conf subdir and customises. Similarly for your setup you would have the config stuff (architecture independent) symlinked to a central spot. Would this not work? -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ I&#

Re: style matching in current CVS

2006-04-06 Thread Cameron Simpson
ption "foo" sets behaviours A and B, "bah" sets "not-A" and "not-B", and "baz" sets A and "not-B. "foo" and "bah" are opposite. "foo" and "baz" are opposing or conflicting. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <

Re: Condition "Visible" does not seem to work when xcompmgr is running.

2007-07-02 Thread Cameron Simpson
for windows. I expect the behind windows are Visible because they are needed for transparency - alpha compositing will require the window to maintain its entire surface as though it were on top. -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Hello, my name

Re: Naming problems

2002-04-08 Thread Cameron Simpson
ith "fvwm-". fvwm-bug, fvwm-root, | fvwm-convert-2.4. fvwm-convert-2.6, fvwm-config. I second this opinion. It shouldn't matter whther something's implementation is a script or not. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Heaven could

Re: test -e not supported on Solaris (configure.in perl test)

2002-04-26 Thread Cameron Simpson
ts for a regular file. -x (executable regular file) and -d (directory) are also fairly specific and portable, depending what you're testing. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ ..to know him was to love him. And to love him was to know him. Those who k

Re: no edge resistance?

2002-04-27 Thread Cameron Simpson
People who came from Fvwm 2.4.4 too. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ I'm a 47-year-old middle-class male with a job. Every hippy-dippy thing that's thought up--from heroin addiction to special vegan lunch lines in the high school cafeteri

PATCH: bin/fvwm-root.1: missing option documentation ...

2002-10-15 Thread Cameron Simpson
is? Merely that you use a different property for this? I was thinking of adding this facility (as an option, like -fe, since it is otherwise a resource waste). I presume it's a bad bad idea to hand the same pixmap to both properties, yes? -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http:/

Re: PATCH: bin/fvwm-root.1: missing option documentation ...

2002-10-15 Thread Cameron Simpson
ent CVS) | to address this lack. [...] | .RB [ \-fe ] | +.RB [ \-dither ] | +.RB [ \-no-dither ] | .I image_file I must be low on blood sugar. Of course, please also add: +.RB [ \-color-limit [ \fIncolors\fP ] ] +.RB [ \-no-color-limit ] to the SYNOPSIS. Doh. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743

Re: PATCH: bin/fvwm-root.1: missing option documentation ...

2002-10-15 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 11:02 15 Oct 2002, Dominik Vogt wrote: | Can you please re-post the complete patch, preferrably as an | attachment? Sure. Attached below. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be ind

Re: PATCH: bin/fvwm-root.1: missing option documentation ...

2002-10-15 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 13:00 15 Oct 2002, Dominik Vogt wrote: | On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 08:34:57PM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: | > On 11:02 15 Oct 2002, Dominik Vogt wrote: | > | Can you please re-post the complete patch, preferrably as an | > | attachment? | > Sure. Attached below. | Applied. Tha

Re: PATCH: bin/fvwm-root.1: missing option documentation ...

2002-10-16 Thread Cameron Simpson
rive (can one see this mail in the | workers list?). Race conditions - found your reply after posting the above :-( Thanks. Will read and then code. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Because of its special customs, crossposting between alt.p

Re: new release

2002-10-29 Thread Cameron Simpson
ain option to fvwm-root. | Cameron, Olivier or maybe me (I have no idea yet, but I can try cvs diff). The --retain-pixmap in fvwm-root is my chore. If you want to get 2.5.4 our the door please don't wait for me. The job is small, but may not be ready until after the weekend. My apologies. -

Re: Renamings

2002-11-02 Thread Cameron Simpson
f an inch. Since it _is_ a unit of measure, and used in font size specs (yea, even in X11 font specs), could we avoid the word "points". Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ I'll keep repeating this as long as I have to: Insult i

Re: Rules for files installed into bindir

2002-11-09 Thread Cameron Simpson
;gnome-bug" and | > >and only 95 files in the underscore form like "pg_dump". Besides, on most keyboards "-" doesn't need shift, and "_" does. Easier to type. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Third, I p

Re: CVS dane fvwm-web: * screenshots/index.html: Screenshot by Cameron Simpson.

2002-11-09 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 20:15 09 Nov 2002, FVWM CVS wrote: | Log message: | * screenshots/index.html: Screenshot by Cameron Simpson. Thanks! -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ -- Visit the official FVWM web page at http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the l

Re: Rules for files installed into bindir

2002-11-10 Thread Cameron Simpson
lity. So do I. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Nothing is so smiple that it can't get screwed up. -- Visit the official FVWM web page at http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers&q

Re: Rules for files installed into bindir

2002-11-10 Thread Cameron Simpson
oes error->stdout bugger the pipeline, it swallows the error message from the user's eyes! | In any case, I would not blindly follow all GNU "standards", only the | reasonable ones. Even GNU projects do not follow all of them. Hear hear! Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743

Re: compiler warning/bug in FvwmScript/script.y

2002-11-14 Thread Cameron Simpson
text document, which of course you browse with your pager as with ordinary manual entries. It's certainly made info accessable for me. To be sure, there are no hyperlinks, but the link targets _are_ presented in the text, and the your pager's search function should find them fairly we

Re: compiler warning/bug in FvwmScript/script.y

2002-11-15 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 10:00 15 Nov 2002, Dominik Vogt wrote: | On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 06:50:47PM -0500, Paul Smith wrote: | > %% Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | Sorry, I somehow missed that paragraph. I just can't operate info | > | :-/ | > cs> You may want my &q

Re: New non-window conditional command On

2003-01-06 Thread Cameron Simpson
d keep "Closable" and discard "Unclosable", using "!Closable" and so forth. All these attributes should be positive statements. Likewise there shouldn't be any "Disallow*" options, just Allow* and !Allow*. This issue is entirely separate from what the

Re: New non-window conditional command On

2003-01-07 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 10:26 07 Jan 2003, Dominik Vogt wrote: | On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 08:57:04AM +, Mikhael Goikhman wrote: | > On 07 Jan 2003 06:51:41 +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote: | > > | > > On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 12:18:08PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: | > > > On 22:50 06 Jan 2003,

Re: Non-printable Website pages - why?

2003-01-13 Thread Cameron Simpson
tscape used to, and I do all my printing from netscape. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ I guess this is what you get for being on the leading edge, you get cut sometimes. - Douglas Rand -- Visit the official FVWM web page at http://www.fvwm.o

Re: Determining if a window is iconified.

2003-01-27 Thread Cameron Simpson
there is no | difference when iconifiying. | | I guess an alternative is to have an interactive script where the user is | asked wuestions interactivly. Maybe a tiny C program to check if the window id is mapped? -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/

Re: FVWM: AspectPixmap not fitting menu ...

2003-03-17 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 11:19 17 Mar 2003, Dominik Vogt wrote: | (moved to fvwm-workers) | On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 06:04:25PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: | > It's long bugged me that my AspectPixmap menu backdrops don't always fit | > the menu; indeed, they rarely fit perfectly. Now, I know

Re: The fvwm Ethical License

2003-03-29 Thread Cameron Simpson
consider some/all of the wishes of the code authors. Personally I think FVWM is a neutral tool. Very unlike, say, a gun, whole purpose is to kill or injure others - it is fundamentally a weapon, whatever the mindset of the person brandishing it. But I'll support Dominik's app

Re: Ethics and some straight talking

2003-04-01 Thread Cameron Simpson
e war in Iraq that | > began in March, 2003. The following people, many of them users | > or developers of fvwm, would like to express their sympathies to | > those affected: | | I would subscribe that without a heartbeat's hesitation. So would I. -- Cameron Simpson,

Re: Peace agreement

2003-04-02 Thread Cameron Simpson
you can do for yourself, but both effects exist. For myself, I think FVWM is a net win for good. I can't prove it. I hope this gives you something new and useful to consider. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Washing one's h