On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 04:24:00PM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: > Joerg Jung wrote: > > > > > On 09 Nov 2015, at 22:07, Ted Unangst <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Joerg Jung wrote: > > >> > > >> please find below an update for x11/dwm to 6.1. This release contains > > >> various fixes and improvements, see announcement [1] for more details. > > >> > > >> OK? > > > > > > so now that we finally changed the default xterm back to uxterm, they > > > changed > > > it to st. needs another man page patch. :) > > > > I wonder what dwm users think about the following proposal: > > > > Remove the uxterm patch and keep st as the default terminal. > > If you are a dwm/dmenu suckless user on your desktop you are > > probably also fine with using st. > > > > st has become rather stable and usable. A lot of issues are > > fixed and most terminal applications seem to work just fine. > > > > Other “desktop environments” also all start their own terminals > > (e.g. gnome, kde, xfce, …). > > > > Or does this go one step too far?! What do you think? > > I've never liked st. I don't love xterm, per se, but despite the mind numbing > code it mostly seems to work. In particular, I like scrollback and I don't > want to run 32 different tmux sessions to get the same effect.
Yep, that is a very valid argument. > Maybe they're fixed, but I also had some screen drawing glitches in st > a year or so ago. I think they are fixed. > Now I'm also old and cranky and I think gterm, kterm, eterm, etc. are all > stupid ideas too, but I'm not using dwm because I want to buy into the > suckless desktop environment. I just want a window manager. ...but, but you got already a menubar, statusbar, and nine virtual desktops! :) > (All that said, since I had to build 6.1 by myself to test, I also changed the > font to ubuntu mono to match my xterms, so maybe I will just keep building it > myself the way I like, so my opinion doesn't count.) I'm thinking about removing terminus font as dependency and instead keep upstreams "monospace" font setting as default. Then you and others may not need to build it anymore and can just adjust ~/fonts.conf as needed.
