Re: [dev] smessage
I've been wanting for a long time some simple tool to replace the libnotify popups. Using xsetroot is just not enough for me to notice the warnings (and I do need to be warned when my battery is running out or the temperature is too high). Both xmessage and smessage use a window that steals the focus as soon as it appears, so it's not very nice. I didn't play too much with X11 API.. would it be even possible to modify smessage.c to draw directly on the display without using a window? if so.. any help on how would I do this? -- Fernando
Re: [dev] smessage
Quoth Fernando C.V.: I've been wanting for a long time some simple tool to replace the libnotify popups. Using xsetroot is just not enough for me to notice the warnings (and I do need to be warned when my battery is running out or the temperature is too high). Both xmessage and smessage use a window that steals the focus as soon as it appears, so it's not very nice. Take a look at xosd's osd_cat program. I haven't looked at the code, but it will likely do what you want. Nick pgpnPa8qatAfQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [dev] smessage
Greetings list, On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:13:07 +0100, Michael Stummvoll wrote: An operation Mode without any Buttons where the Window closes itselfs after x seconds would be also great I think. Than somebody could use smessage also for displaying popup-infos whithin a desktop environment for example. As mentioned before, the closing timer should be implemented in a separate script, but how is the consensus about duplicating functionality? The button handling of original xmessage might be provided by Christoph's thingmenu, so is it reasonable to implement it again for smessage or should the functionality kept separated? -flo
Re: [dev] smessage
Hi Michael, On 23.02.2012 09:13, Michael Stummvoll wrote: Also when i resize a window (make it bigger) its not redrawn correctly for me. I've looked into this, but wasn't able to reproduce this. I've found and fixed another error, which occured when it is shrinked to a width below one character width + 2 * margins. The only way I can think of is that you use a font, which width is not 8. Since I've not yet figured out an elegant way how to determine the (average and/or actual) glyph width in X, it's hardcoded by now, so you can try to change the 8 at the end of the line smessage.c:458 to the width of your fixed font. If you use a proportinal font, I have no solution at the moment. -flo
Re: [dev] smessage
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Florian Limberger f...@snakeoilproductions.net wrote: width of your fixed font. If you use a proportinal font, I have no solution at the moment. I guess you could find the right amount of characters to draw to fill a line using (dichotomously) XmbTextExtents().
Re: [dev] smessage
Hi Florian, yes, I have deleted -Werror and then it works without any problem. I use most current version of ArchLinux x64 with libx11 1.4.99.1-1. On 18:55 Thu 23 Feb , Florian Limberger wrote: Hi Bartosz, On 23.02.2012 13:30, Bartosz Pranczke wrote: I have a warning preventing this from compile. cc -Wall -Wextra -Werror -std=c99 -pedantic -I/usr/X11R6/include -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=2 -DNAME=\smessage\ -DVERSION=\ALPHA\ -c smessage.c smessage.c: In function ‘handlekey’: smessage.c:568:2: error: ‘XKeycodeToKeysym’ is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/X11/Xlib.h:1695) [-Werror=deprecated-declarations] Delete -Werror to make it compile anyway, but this warning is new to me. And honestly, I don't think it makes sense, since if the want you to use XKB, you won't be using Xlib anyway. But it clearly shows that i should make a release option in the makefile, which is not that picky. Out of couriousity, what system do you use? I hacked on slackware, where I didn't got that warning. -flo
Re: [dev] smessage
Hi Florian, nice Tool, but you should make thinks like the font or colors configurable (excluded in a config.h). Also when i resize a window (make it bigger) its not redrawn correctly for me. An operation Mode without any Buttons where the Window closes itselfs after x seconds would be also great I think. Than somebody could use smessage also for displaying popup-infos whithin a desktop environment for example. Kind regards, Michael
Re: [dev] smessage
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Florian Limberger f...@snakeoilproductions.net wrote: I have hacked up a simple xmessage replacement which looks neater, has dmenu-like handling and supports unicode. Nice code. If you want to replace xmessage, you should make text scrollable and selectable.
Re: [dev] smessage
I have a warning preventing this from compile. cc -Wall -Wextra -Werror -std=c99 -pedantic -I/usr/X11R6/include -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=2 -DNAME=\smessage\ -DVERSION=\ALPHA\ -c smessage.c smessage.c: In function ‘handlekey’: smessage.c:568:2: error: ‘XKeycodeToKeysym’ is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/X11/Xlib.h:1695) [-Werror=deprecated-declarations] cc1: all warnings being treated as errors make: *** [smessage.o] Error 1 On 11:55 Tue 21 Feb , Florian Limberger wrote: Greetings list, I have hacked up a simple xmessage replacement which looks neater, has dmenu-like handling and supports unicode. Since this is my first real project, I appreciate serious criticism of the code. Thanks go out to Christoph Lohmann for svkb/thingmenu, which inspired various pieces of code. I do not consider the program finished yet, just grep for TODO to see what I mean. -flo
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There's XkbKeycodeToKeysym which needs theX11/XKBlib.h Here's the man page relevant part: The XKeycodeToKeysym function uses internal Xlib tables and returns the KeySym defined for the specified KeyCode and the element of the Key‐ Code vector. If no symbol is defined, XKeycodeToKeysym returns NoSymbol. XKeycodeToKeysym predates the XKB extension. If you want to lookup a KeySym while using XKB you have to use XkbKeycodeToKeysym. SEE ALSO XLookupKeysym(3) Xlib - C Language X Interface On 23 February 2012 14:30, Bartosz Pranczke b.pranc...@gmail.com wrote: I have a warning preventing this from compile. cc -Wall -Wextra -Werror -std=c99 -pedantic -I/usr/X11R6/include -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=2 -DNAME=\smessage\ -DVERSION=\ALPHA\ -c smessage.c smessage.c: In function ‘handlekey’: smessage.c:568:2: error: ‘XKeycodeToKeysym’ is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/X11/Xlib.h:1695) [-Werror=deprecated-declarations] cc1: all warnings being treated as errors make: *** [smessage.o] Error 1 On 11:55 Tue 21 Feb , Florian Limberger wrote: Greetings list, I have hacked up a simple xmessage replacement which looks neater, has dmenu-like handling and supports unicode. Since this is my first real project, I appreciate serious criticism of the code. Thanks go out to Christoph Lohmann for svkb/thingmenu, which inspired various pieces of code. I do not consider the program finished yet, just grep for TODO to see what I mean. -flo -- *Ivan c00kiemon5ter V Kanakarakis *
Re: [dev] smessage
oh, forgot to say that I don't get such a warning, everything seems fine here. I'm with libx11 1.4.4 , xproto 7.0.22-1 On 23 February 2012 15:20, Ivan Kanakarakis ivan.ka...@gmail.com wrote: There's XkbKeycodeToKeysym which needs theX11/XKBlib.h Here's the man page relevant part: The XKeycodeToKeysym function uses internal Xlib tables and returns the KeySym defined for the specified KeyCode and the element of the Key‐ Code vector. If no symbol is defined, XKeycodeToKeysym returns NoSymbol. XKeycodeToKeysym predates the XKB extension. If you want to lookup a KeySym while using XKB you have to use XkbKeycodeToKeysym. SEE ALSO XLookupKeysym(3) Xlib - C Language X Interface On 23 February 2012 14:30, Bartosz Pranczke b.pranc...@gmail.com wrote: I have a warning preventing this from compile. cc -Wall -Wextra -Werror -std=c99 -pedantic -I/usr/X11R6/include -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=2 -DNAME=\smessage\ -DVERSION=\ALPHA\ -c smessage.c smessage.c: In function ‘handlekey’: smessage.c:568:2: error: ‘XKeycodeToKeysym’ is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/X11/Xlib.h:1695) [-Werror=deprecated-declarations] cc1: all warnings being treated as errors make: *** [smessage.o] Error 1 On 11:55 Tue 21 Feb , Florian Limberger wrote: Greetings list, I have hacked up a simple xmessage replacement which looks neater, has dmenu-like handling and supports unicode. Since this is my first real project, I appreciate serious criticism of the code. Thanks go out to Christoph Lohmann for svkb/thingmenu, which inspired various pieces of code. I do not consider the program finished yet, just grep for TODO to see what I mean. -flo -- *Ivan c00kiemon5ter V Kanakarakis * -- *Ivan c00kiemon5ter V Kanakarakis *
Re: [dev] smessage
Hi Michael, On 23.02.2012 09:13, Michael Stummvoll wrote: nice Tool, but you should make thinks like the font or colors configurable (excluded in a config.h). personally I don't like nested includes much, but if it's general consent that it is the preferred way, I'll change it. At the moment, nesting is not necessary anyway. Also when i resize a window (make it bigger) its not redrawn correctly for me. The redrawing costed me a night and I thought it would work, but I'll look into it. I just are short an time at the moment. An operation Mode without any Buttons where the Window closes itselfs after x seconds would be also great I think. Than somebody could use smessage also for displaying popup-infos whithin a desktop environment for example. Thats a nice idea, I think it would be great with the (not yet implemented) function to force geometry. -flo
Re: [dev] smessage
Hi Aurélien, On 23.02.2012 13:06, Aurélien Aptel wrote: Nice code. Thanks. If you want to replace xmessage, you should make text scrollable and selectable. Thats actually quite at the top on my to do list. -flo
Re: [dev] smessage
Hi Bartosz, On 23.02.2012 13:30, Bartosz Pranczke wrote: I have a warning preventing this from compile. cc -Wall -Wextra -Werror -std=c99 -pedantic -I/usr/X11R6/include -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=2 -DNAME=\smessage\ -DVERSION=\ALPHA\ -c smessage.c smessage.c: In function ‘handlekey’: smessage.c:568:2: error: ‘XKeycodeToKeysym’ is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/X11/Xlib.h:1695) [-Werror=deprecated-declarations] Delete -Werror to make it compile anyway, but this warning is new to me. And honestly, I don't think it makes sense, since if the want you to use XKB, you won't be using Xlib anyway. But it clearly shows that i should make a release option in the makefile, which is not that picky. Out of couriousity, what system do you use? I hacked on slackware, where I didn't got that warning. -flo
Re: [dev] smessage
Dnia 2012-02-23, o godz. 18:45:08 Florian Limberger f...@snakeoilproductions.net napisał(a): An operation Mode without any Buttons where the Window closes itselfs after x seconds would be also great I think. Than somebody could use smessage also for displaying popup-infos whithin a desktop environment for example. Thats a nice idea, I think it would be great with the (not yet implemented) function to force geometry. Closing after x seconds can be made within a simple shell script. So I think you can omit that part of this feature. Maybe only provide script itself as example.
Re: [dev] smessage
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 11:55:20AM +0100, Florian Limberger wrote: I have hacked up a simple xmessage replacement which looks neater, has dmenu-like handling and supports unicode. Linky?
Re: [dev] smessage
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:55:20 +0100, Florian Limberger wrote: Greetings list, I have hacked up a simple xmessage replacement which looks neater, has dmenu-like handling and supports unicode. And I am obviously too tired to write mails. Code now attached. -flo smessage.tar.bz2 Description: BZip2 compressed data
