[dev] [dwm] terminating the status loop

2011-04-27 Thread Thomas Dahms
Hi list, using something like while true; do xsetroot -name ... sleep 1 done exec dwm in .xsession (I have to use KDM at work) as advertised in dwm's README leaves the background loop running even after logout, which has some ugly side effects: While not logged in,

Re: [dev] [st] cleanup patch

2011-04-27 Thread Hiltjo Posthuma
This is a pretty off-topic question, but I wonder will st implement text-scrolling eventually ? This and the performance is one of the few reasons I'm still using xterm, but I'm hoping to replace it with st :) (Im aware running st with tmux provides text-scrolling I guess, but having it without

Re: [dev] [dwm] terminating the status loop

2011-04-27 Thread Kurt Van Dijck
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 01:20:13PM +0200, Thomas Dahms wrote: Hi list, The following fixes the problem: while true; do xsetroot -name ... sleep 1 done statuspid=$! dwm wait $! kill $statuspid why not just: dwm kill $statuspid I see no use in

Re: [dev] [dwm] terminating the status loop

2011-04-27 Thread Thomas Dahms
On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:55:08 +0200, Kurt Van Dijck kurt.van.di...@eia.be wrote: why not just: dwm kill $statuspid I see no use in backgrounding dwm, and then waiting for it. What did I miss? Nothing; backgrounding dwm was left from trying a few other ways to do it. Thank

Re: [dev] st patch for draw() etc.

2011-04-27 Thread anonymous
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 03:48:46PM +0400, anonymous wrote: On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 12:31:37AM +0200, Aurélien Aptel wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Magnus Leuthner magnus.leuth...@googlemail.com wrote: Please note that the drawing for the selection while selecting only works if

Re: [dev] [dwm] terminating the status loop

2011-04-27 Thread amann
On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:55:08 +0200, Kurt Van Dijck kurt.van.di...@eia.be wrote: why not just: dwm kill $statuspid I see no use in backgrounding dwm, and then waiting for it. What did I miss? Nothing; backgrounding dwm was left from trying a few other ways to do it. Thank you.

Re: [dev] [dwm] terminating the status loop

2011-04-27 Thread Petr Sabata
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 05:24:55PM +0200, am...@physik.tu-berlin.de wrote: On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:55:08 +0200, Kurt Van Dijck kurt.van.di...@eia.be wrote: why not just: dwm kill $statuspid I see no use in backgrounding dwm, and then waiting for it. What did I miss?

Re: [dev] [dwm] terminating the status loop

2011-04-27 Thread Thomas Dahms
Hi Andreas, while xsetroot -name $(date +%a, %b %d %Y | %H:%M) do sleep 20 done exec dwm This is even nicer as the original instance of .xsession is not kept running. -- Thomas Dahms

[dev] [wmii][rumai] Error using default wmiirc

2011-04-27 Thread Aurélien Aptel
Hi, I wanted to try the ruby wmiirc, so I followed the steps in the README, installed latest wmii/libixp from the repo, installed rumai 3.3.1 (since wmiirc require 4), checkout the strict branch (default config.yaml) and when I startx, I get this on the xmessage-thingy: #Rumai::IXP::Error: bad

[dev] [surf] can't compile on debian sid

2011-04-27 Thread thuban
I tried to compile surf recently, but it returns an error (see attached file). I'm running on debian sid, so I suppose it's because of an error in libX11-dev package? What do you think? CC = cc CC -o surf /usr/bin/ld: surf.o: undefined reference to symbol 'XSync' /usr/bin/ld: note: 'XSync'

Re: [dev] [wmii][rumai] Error using default wmiirc

2011-04-27 Thread Suraj Kurapati
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Aurélien Aptel aurelien.ap...@gmail.com wrote: I wanted to try the ruby wmiirc, so I followed the steps in the README, installed latest wmii/libixp from the repo, installed rumai 3.3.1 (since wmiirc require 4), checkout the strict branch It seems you are

[dev] [surf] Animated GIF support

2011-04-27 Thread Maciej Sobkowski
Hi I use default surf package on archlinux, and animated GIFs don't work. they blink or show only first frame. Is it possible to fix it? maciejjo

Re: [dev] [surf] Animated GIF support

2011-04-27 Thread Ramil Farkhshatov
Maciej Sobkowski macie...@maciejjo.pl wrote: Hi I use default surf package on archlinux, and animated GIFs don't work. they blink or show only first frame. Is it possible to fix it? It's a bug in webkit-1.2.7. It is fixed in unstable webkit version (1.3.x).

[dev] [dwm] terminating the status loop

2011-04-27 Thread Kurt Van Dijck
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 05:51:27PM +0200, Thomas Dahms wrote: Hi Andreas, while xsetroot -name $(date +%a, %b %d %Y | %H:%M) do sleep 20 done exec dwm This is even nicer as the original instance of .xsession is not kept running. I don't understand how the while loop terminates

Re: [dev] [wmii][rumai] Error using default wmiirc

2011-04-27 Thread Aurélien Aptel
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Suraj Kurapati sun...@gmail.com wrote: It seems you are using the ruby wmiirc that was shipped with wmii (which is ancient!) because the current ruby wmiirc on GitHub[1] no longer maintains the strict branch and requires Rumai 4.1.2, so try [1] instead. Yep,

Re: [dev] [dwm] terminating the status loop

2011-04-27 Thread Robert Ransom
On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 22:15:11 +0200 Kurt Van Dijck kurt.van.di...@eia.be wrote: On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 05:51:27PM +0200, Thomas Dahms wrote: Hi Andreas, while xsetroot -name $(date +%a, %b %d %Y | %H:%M) do sleep 20 done exec dwm This is even nicer as the original

Re: [dev] [dwm] terminating the status loop

2011-04-27 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Kurt Van Dijck kurt.van.di...@eia.be wrote: I don't understand how the while loop terminates then when dwm terminates. xsetroot will return a nonzero exit code because the xserver is no longer running. -- # Kurt H Maier

Re: [dev] [surf] Animated GIF support

2011-04-27 Thread Emmanuel Benisty
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 2:47 AM, Maciej Sobkowski macie...@maciejjo.pl wrote: Hi I use default surf package on archlinux, and animated GIFs don't work. they blink or show only first frame. Is it possible to fix it? maciejjo here's the fix for 1.2.7: