Re: [dev] dwm patch: saveinfo

2011-08-28 Thread Anselm R Garbe
Hi Ladd, On 27 August 2011 00:40, Ladd Hoffman l...@ipdatatel.com wrote: This patch enables saving tags to disk when dwm exits, and loading from disk on startup. (especially useful when you need to recompile and restart dwm.) I think this patch seems quite useful and suggest you should add

[dev] New hardware migration

2011-08-28 Thread Anselm R Garbe
Hi there, I just want to mention that I will migrate suckless.org to a new host during the following weeks. I take this chance also to dramatically overhaul and sweeping the wiki contents and the weirde default look and feel. My plan is to revert the basic structure of the wiki back to be more

Re: [dev] [lsw] List only visible windows

2011-08-28 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 25 August 2011 19:58, Bastien Dejean esch...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe it would be convenient to add an option similar to the --onlyvisible's xdotool option. Hmm, if at all then this option should not read like --onlyvisible... I would rather suggest something like -m (for mapped) and the

Re: [dev] dwm: can't open aterm/xterm

2011-08-28 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 24 August 2011 16:27, Bruce Bauman bruce.bau...@venture3systems.com wrote: I am running dwm as the window manager under TinyCore Linux, and have a keymapping set up to launch an aterm. It fails with the error: X Error of failed request:  BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)  Major opcode

Re: [dev] How do you cope with OSX? (if at all)

2011-08-28 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 21 August 2011 15:19, Simon Rozet si...@rozet.name wrote: https://gist.github.com/311377 Thanks anyways. In the meantime I quite the Apple OS X though, its success is far beyond any imagination if you ask me... The only good thing about OS X is proper suspend/resume handling which is very

Re: [dev] New hardware migration

2011-08-28 Thread Troels Henriksen
Anselm R Garbe garb...@gmail.com writes: Hi there, I just want to mention that I will migrate suckless.org to a new host during the following weeks. I take this chance also to dramatically overhaul and sweeping the wiki contents and the weirde default look and feel. My plan is to revert the

Re: [dev] New hardware migration

2011-08-28 Thread Connor Lane Smith
Hey, On 28 August 2011 09:40, Anselm R Garbe garb...@gmail.com wrote: Can someone remind me on the state of wmii? Is it abandoned/stalled? Is a relocation elsewhere planned yet or not? It's migrated to Google Code [1], though it seems to be pretty dead, too. [1]:

Re: [dev] dwm patch: saveinfo

2011-08-28 Thread Benoit T
hello all, On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 10:34:05AM +0200, Anselm R Garbe wrote: On 27 August 2011 00:40, Ladd Hoffman l...@ipdatatel.com wrote: This patch enables saving tags to disk when dwm exits, and loading from disk on startup. I don't like a wm writing to permanent storage, especially for

Re: [dev] dwm patch: saveinfo

2011-08-28 Thread Connor Lane Smith
Hey, On 28 August 2011 11:23, Benoit T benoit.triq...@gmail.com wrote: BTW., i am not sure which branch i should follow right now.  Someone should close or merge the dangling head at rev 1565:ee4aa582320a at http://hg.suckless.org/dwm That branch is a feature branch for 6.0, whereas trunk is

Re: [dev] New hardware migration

2011-08-28 Thread hiro
Yeah, I never liked the term suckless, but for simplicity please leave wmii where it is. By the way: wmii's infirmity seems to exist only in your head, for I haven't seen a bug in my unchanged setup for over a year.

Re: [dev] dwm patch: saveinfo

2011-08-28 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 28 August 2011 12:23, Benoit T benoit.triq...@gmail.com wrote: BTW., i am not sure which branch i should follow right now.  Someone should close or merge the dangling head at rev 1565:ee4aa582320a at http://hg.suckless.org/dwm The draw.c branch is intended to be adopted for 6.0 development

Re: [dev] New hardware migration

2011-08-28 Thread Connor Lane Smith
On 28 August 2011 11:29, hiro 23h...@googlemail.com wrote: By the way: wmii's infirmity seems to exist only in your head, for I haven't seen a bug in my unchanged setup for over a year. That's interesting, I just used it for 60 seconds (from hg, default settings) and found two bugs: It took

Re: [dev] New hardware migration

2011-08-28 Thread hiro
I don't know about tip, Your system would of course bug me, too, but a year ago I setup 3.9.2 to bug me not. It starts instantly and rehash is called automatically by my extension loading app. I don't own the xmessage program, so I don't get popup windows. Hilarious only if you can't read. Here's

Re: [dev] New hardware migration

2011-08-28 Thread Kurt H Maier
wmii development has stalled and it would be worth axing it from suckless.org just so we don't get lost sheep wandering in here bleating questions about how to overcome wmii's horrible broken configuration mechanism. -- # Kurt H Maier

Re: [dev] New hardware migration

2011-08-28 Thread hiro
Yeah, has not been completely rewritten for at least two weeks now and is thus obviously stale.

[dev] Bug (feature) in Swing applications (Netbeans)

2011-08-28 Thread Catalin David
Dear all, Thanks for the great work that you are doing with DWM. Been using it and reading your rants for the past 2 years, but I have stumbled across a bug today and I am not sure what is to be done. First of all, thanks in advance for the bashing of Java and Swing and how they are not working

[dev] Re: [lsw] List only visible windows

2011-08-28 Thread Christian Neukirchen
Anselm R Garbe garb...@gmail.com writes: On 25 August 2011 19:58, Bastien Dejean esch...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe it would be convenient to add an option similar to the --onlyvisible's xdotool option. Hmm, if at all then this option should not read like --onlyvisible... I would rather suggest

Re: [dev] Re: [lsw] List only visible windows

2011-08-28 Thread Rob
On 28 August 2011 14:49, Christian Neukirchen chneukirc...@gmail.com wrote: My private fork of lsw also features a check for the urgency hint, which I use in my statusbar to see fresh messages in pidgin and skype.  Could be useful in general. -- Christian Neukirchen  chneukirc...@gmail.com  

Re: [dev] New hardware migration

2011-08-28 Thread hootiegib...@gmail.com
On Sun, 28 Aug 2011, Kurt H Maier wrote: wmii development has stalled and it would be worth axing it from suckless.org just so we don't get lost sheep wandering in here bleating questions about how to overcome wmii's horrible broken configuration mechanism. -- # Kurt H Maier 'horrible

Re: [dev] Bug (feature) in Swing applications (Netbeans)

2011-08-28 Thread Andrew Hills
When I'm using Java software that fails in dwm, I run the wmname tool. For details: http://tools.suckless.org/wmname --Andrew Hills On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Catalin David catalindavid2...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, Thanks for the great work that you are doing with DWM. Been using

Re: [dev] Bug (feature) in Swing applications (Netbeans)

2011-08-28 Thread Catalin David
Thanks for the pointers. I have another very weird issue now: I open a terminal, I set wmname LG3D, I type netbeans, it starts. Switching the tags in DWM maintains focus (yupee!!). So, I decided to make up my own script to start netbeans that just does wmname LG3D netbeans and when I run it

Re: [dev] Re: [lsw] List only visible windows

2011-08-28 Thread Peter John Hartman
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 03:10:41PM +0100, Rob wrote: On 28 August 2011 14:49, Christian Neukirchen chneukirc...@gmail.com wrote: My private fork of lsw also features a check for the urgency hint, which i also have a minor patch to lsw.c to show the class. despite its size, it might be worth

Re: [dev] Bug (feature) in Swing applications (Netbeans)

2011-08-28 Thread Connor Lane Smith
Hey, On 28 August 2011 17:05, Catalin David catalindavid2...@gmail.com wrote: So, I decided to make up my own script to start netbeans that just does wmname LG3D netbeans Why not just run wmname LG3D in .xinitrc / .xsession? cls

Re: [dev] Bug (feature) in Swing applications (Netbeans)

2011-08-28 Thread Connor Lane Smith
On 28 August 2011 19:08, Catalin David catalindavid2...@gmail.com wrote: I was not able to get the output of env from DMENU (I tried env/tmp/test.env, but there was no file). That definitely works in tip, perhaps not in 4.4. (Maybe we should release a 4.4.1 at some point, I don't know.) cls

Re: [dev] dwm patch: saveinfo

2011-08-28 Thread Benoit T
hi On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:27:57AM +0100, Connor Lane Smith wrote: On 28 August 2011 11:23, Benoit T benoit.triq...@gmail.com wrote: BTW., i am not sure which branch i should follow right now.  Someone should close or merge the dangling head at rev 1565:ee4aa582320a at

Re: [dev] dwm patch: saveinfo

2011-08-28 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 28 August 2011 21:31, Benoit T benoit.triq...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:27:57AM +0100, Connor Lane Smith wrote: On 28 August 2011 11:23, Benoit T benoit.triq...@gmail.com wrote: BTW., i am not sure which branch i should follow right now.  Someone should close or merge