Re: [dev] xmessage replacement similar to dmenu

2010-11-24 Thread yy
You could have a look at dio: http://code.google.com/p/dynamic-io/ It does much more things than what you want, the code has not been updated in a while and anyway some of its features were simply wrong ideas (I always treated dio as a toy to experiment more than a final product). However, you

[dev] [dmenu] [patch] Display a multi-line text message before (or instead of) the prompt (was: xmessage replacement similar to dmenu)

2010-11-24 Thread Ciprian Dorin, Craciun
Hello all! I didn't thought it was so easy to extend `dmenu` but it seems it is. So will just to fill in the context of this patch: yesterday I've asked on the mailing list if there is a `dmenu` like replacement for xmessage. (See the archive at:

Re: [dev] [dmenu] [patch] Display a multi-line text message before (or instead of) the prompt (was: xmessage replacement similar to dmenu)

2010-11-24 Thread Moritz Wilhelmy
Hi, If I see that correctly your dmenu can be either in display message or menu mode. I think you should rather split them into two single programs, one for displaying messages and the other one for being a menu. UNIX teaches us to do one thing well instead of clogging everything into a single

Re: [dev] [dmenu] [patch] Display a multi-line text message before (or instead of) the prompt (was: xmessage replacement similar to dmenu)

2010-11-24 Thread Ciprian Dorin, Craciun
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 21:22, Moritz Wilhelmy c...@wzff.de wrote: Hi, If I see that correctly your dmenu can be either in display message or menu mode. Um. Not quite. As I've changed it, now it has a classical-menu mode (just how it worked until now) and an

Re: [dev] [dmenu] [patch] Display a multi-line text message before (or instead of) the prompt (was: xmessage replacement similar to dmenu)

2010-11-24 Thread Moritz Wilhelmy
Excerpts from Ciprian Dorin, Craciun's message of Wed Nov 24 20:36:20 +0100 2010: On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 21:22, Moritz Wilhelmy c...@wzff.de wrote: Hi, If I see that correctly your dmenu can be either in display message or menu mode. Um. Not quite. As I've changed it, now it

[dev] [dwm] combo patch bugfix

2010-11-24 Thread Wolf Tivy
Hi everyone! I found a little bug in my combo patch. The mouse click tagging stuff doesn't use keypresses, so my code got a bit confused. No big deal but incorrect. I'm going to update the wiki but I thought I'd let you all know in case anyone is using it. If you aren't using it, you really ought