Re: [dev] [GENERAL] License manifest

2014-05-23 Thread Anders Andersson
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Nick suckless-...@njw.me.uk wrote: The ISC license[0] is simpler still, and in much nicer English, which I like. But MIT/X is perfectly fine too for our purposes here. 0. http://opensource.org/licenses/ISC Is something more true in legalese if it's written in

Re: [dev] Introducing XLSH

2011-10-21 Thread Anders Andersson
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Bjartur Thorlacius svartma...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:00:48 -, Anders Andersson pipat...@gmail.com wrote: My .bash_profile looks like this: # auto startx if logging in at VC/1 if [[ -z $DISPLAY ]] [[ $(tty) = /dev/tty1 ]]; then   startx

Re: [dev] Introducing XLSH

2011-10-20 Thread Anders Andersson
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Bjartur Thorlacius svartma...@gmail.com wrote: Myself, I used to run openvt bash from inittab. Anyone who knows how to do anything useful in a commandline knows how to boot from an alternative OS anyway. (Now I use login for no generally applicable reason). My

Re: [dev] [ANNOUNCE] dvtm-0.7

2011-09-04 Thread Anders Andersson
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Marc Andre Tanner m...@brain-dump.org wrote: Hi, I've released dvtm-0.7. ---snip--- Cheers, Marc --  Marc Andre Tanner http://www.brain-dump.org/ GPG key: CF7D56C0 Thanks! // pipe

Re: [dev] dwm xsetroot colorful fonts howto?

2011-05-13 Thread Anders Andersson
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Bogdan Ionuț bog...@punctweb.ro wrote: On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 00:01, Le Tian tiane...@gmail.com wrote: I'm sorry, maybe its been discussed like a lot of times, but can anybody tell me how to color taskbar fonts in dwm? There is a patch

Re: [dev] dwm

2011-05-06 Thread Anders Andersson
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 2:50 PM, m1...@web.de wrote: hi! there are a lot of important things from wmii which cant be found in dwm anymore.. for example the stacked/maximised-mode or the ability to change the positions of frames in a tag via Alt+Shift+[h/j/k/l]. I was thinking about to

Re: [dev] [dwm] devilspie doesn't work

2011-05-05 Thread Anders Andersson
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 3:46 AM, Kurt H Maier karmaf...@gmail.com wrote: Transparent terminals unnecessarily increase computational power required to render simple text.  They make a fundamental application harder for a computer to run.  This makes the core program less portable by raising the

Re: [dev] hgweb typically sucks

2011-04-01 Thread Anders Andersson
On 1 Apr 2011, at 2:55 pm, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: On 1 Apr 2011, at 2:33 pm, Nick wrote:  `curl -I http://hg.suckless.org/stali-toolchain/raw-file/e2f2828820b4/build/i386-linux-uclibc/include/a.out.h` shows that hg is presenting it to the browser as: Content-Disposition: inline Good

Re: [dev] [st] bold as bright (again)

2011-04-01 Thread Anders Andersson
Bold must be pretty new. To me it's always been Bright, and that's how the colour escape codes are defined, and the CGA display with four bits for Red/Green/Blue/Intensity. If you can't show the bright colours correctly due to a lack of colour registers or bitplanes, you have to resort to other

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

2011-03-19 Thread Anders Andersson
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Benjamin R. Haskell suckl...@benizi.com wrote: Personally, I completely disable the touchpad on any laptop I use whenever possible.  Otherwise my wrists always unintentionally activate it. I don't think I've ever met a ThinkPad owner who didn't prefer the

Re: [dev] backup windows

2011-03-09 Thread Anders Andersson
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Ammar James lone.no...@gmail.com wrote: I assume on linux most of you will say rsync sucks least, is that still right? I don't feel great about using cygwin so I'd like to hear your opinions. Yes. rsync is still the best choice for this job. I use Unison.

Re: [dev] Not Using a Window Manager?

2011-02-26 Thread Anders Andersson
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Steve Ryan gentleman.r...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/26/2011 01:03 PM, Jacob Todd wrote: What you seem to get is a shot in the foot. Why do you say that? It seems pretty interesting to me. -Steve Seeing someone shoot himself in the foot can be both

Re: [dev] which minimal os

2011-02-16 Thread Anders Andersson
gentoo is as minimal as you can get or as complex as you want. you compile everything locally, with the help of the portage repository (even the kernel). it has been my closest experience to what i imagine linux from scratch would be like. also, the gentoo boards are the most active i have

Re: [dev] which minimal os

2011-02-11 Thread Anders Andersson
Debian, every time. Now is a good time since they just released a new stable. Last stable I installed took 10MB of memory with a normal non-gui boot, with bash loaded up and everything. Good enough for me. On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Sean Howard sil...@callysto.com wrote: I use OpenBSD. It

Re: [dev] [ANNOUNCE] dvtm-0.6

2010-10-08 Thread Anders Andersson
 - multiplexing mode, press MOD+a and your keystrokes will be sent   to all non minimized windows. Could be handy if you have to do   something interactive simultaneously on multiple servers. I'd like a mode where if I press '1' in one window, it will enter '2' and '3' etc in the other

Re: [dev] [libdc] default font and unicode

2010-09-30 Thread Anders Andersson
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 1:35 PM, anonymous ya6io...@lavabit.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:49:52AM +0200, sta...@cs.tu-berlin.de wrote: Hi, I've switched to newer dmenu (one with libdc) these days and noticed that with the deafult font Cyrillic characters are broken. The attached

Re: [dev] libdraw development

2010-09-02 Thread Anders Andersson
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Kurt H Maier karmaf...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Uriel ur...@berlinblue.org wrote: On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Szabolcs Nagy n...@port70.net wrote: [snip] the name could have been chosen with more care, but sane names are usually

Re: [dev] wrap: minimalist archiving tool

2010-08-08 Thread Anders Andersson
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Szabolcs Nagy n...@port70.net wrote: * Connor Lane Smith c...@lubutu.com [2010-08-06 15:10:29 +0100]: I've written a tiny archiver, which I've called wrap for lack of a looks nice (nicer than tar, cpio or gnu ar) I'm not quite sure of the use case for this,

Re: [dev] Interesting post about X11

2010-06-23 Thread Anders Andersson
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Donald Allen donaldcal...@gmail.com wrote: I've written code in just about every language you can think of (except Perl, which looks like something that came out of a broken modem to me; didn't Paul Graham say that it looks like a cartoon character cursing?),

Re: [dev] Convert Suckless Projects Documentation to a More Simple Language

2010-06-16 Thread Anders Andersson
I will suggest Japanese because eveRYTHING ABOUHT JAPAN IS BESTOMGOMGPONIESKAWAIII

Re: [dev] Interesting post about X11

2010-06-14 Thread Anders Andersson
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 1:13 PM, pancake panc...@youterm.com wrote: http://julien.danjou.info/blog/2010.html#Thoughts%20and%20rambling%20on%20the%20X%20protocol What saddened me the most in that article is that a KDE developer actually had no idea that you could run applications remotely,

Re: [dev] Suckless operating system

2010-06-13 Thread Anders Andersson
Is it possible to have an OS for desktop/laptop everyday use (multimedia, web, programming, research, ..) which is actualy usable, not rotten inside and alive? Hm, I think we already concluded somewhat that a research application is unlikely to be suckless. I'm not really sure what you mean

Re: [dev] XDG directories

2010-06-11 Thread Anders Andersson
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:57 PM, c...@wzff.de wrote: I'd prefer if old ~/.wmii would still serve as an override for the XDG-stuff if it exists. I don't want to move ~/.wmii around on the donzens of machines I have it installed. So additional code clutter and functionality for backwards

Re: [dev] stderr: unnecessary?

2010-06-11 Thread Anders Andersson
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 7:30 PM, pancake panc...@youterm.com wrote: Not really. Actually NOBODY reads files bigger than 2GB in a SINGLE syscall. Such operation would lock the process for a long and eat so many resorces from the app (it should malloc 2GB.. Or use mmap which is a kernel wrap for

Re: [dev] SDL fullscreen problems in dwm

2010-05-14 Thread Anders Andersson
Literally non resizeable, the window cannot be resized.  hm, I can open SDL windows that are resizable easily enough,  with... SDL_RESIZABLE Sure, but *NO ONE* uses that flag. Go download almost any game made with SDL, its not resizeable. Doesn't that mean that the games are very badly

Re: [dev] my suckless.org compatible ideas: vim like mapping for any tools, C scripts, vi clone

2010-05-14 Thread Anders Andersson
You're insane. Comments follow: On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 6:01 PM, mobi phil m...@mobiphil.com wrote: 1. good tools should have a way to define easily keyboard shortcuts. Good tools should have good keyboard shortcuts, change them in the source if you have to. 1.1. Preferably good tools

Re: [dev] SDL fullscreen problems in dwm

2010-05-14 Thread Anders Andersson
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 7:15 PM, pancake panc...@youterm.com wrote: Many of them are using fixed resolution pixmaps, not vectors, so, to avoid scaling or incorrect display they prefer to drop this possibility (ugly btw) Yeah, but they could still implement a scrolling view or similar. Making a

Re: [dev] [dmenu] xft patch

2010-01-27 Thread Anders Andersson
You think maybe this depends a bit on screen size, screen distance, resolution, and color scheme? It seems optimized for smaller screens and resolutions, and I think those types of fonts works very well on a black background and light foreground. On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Justin Jackson

Re: [dev] include files should never include include files?

2010-01-16 Thread Anders Andersson
Simple rule: include files should never include include files.  If instead they state (in comments or implicitly) what files they need to have included first, the problem of deciding which files to include is pushed to the user (programmer) but in a way that's easy to handle and that, by

Re: [dev] include files should never include include files?

2010-01-16 Thread Anders Andersson
You might not be having problems but he's saying that all that code passing through the lexical analyser will be slowing the compile down. If you put the #ifdef in the top file doing the includes then include files will be opened only the once and not many times. What I did on the Amiga was

Re: [dev] [DWM] suggestion for dwm

2010-01-04 Thread Anders Andersson
I have a suggestion for DWM. I use DWM for about months and i miss one functionality : a trayer (a zone for icons in the status bar to reduce applications like xchat or to have icons for applications like gmixer, batterymon, wicd-client) in the status bar! I've tried to use some apps to

Re: [dev] suckless real time file sync system (or dropbox alternative)

2009-12-22 Thread Anders Andersson
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 8:47 AM, pancake panc...@youterm.com wrote: Inotify+rsync a guy from the company I work on wrote an app to do this, and it is somewhere in the internets. I don't remember the name, but I can ask for it. Depending on a couple of things, Unison might be a better

Re: [dev] slock - cannot log in

2009-12-17 Thread Anders Andersson
Thanks guys. A colleague also suggested switching vterm, but unfortunately, the thinkpad gives access to the F# buttons only via the Fn modifier, which does not seem to support multi-key combinations. at least i have yet to figure out how to do that. Curiously and mostly but not completely

Re: [dev] dmc news

2009-11-09 Thread Anders Andersson
Some comments: Networking:  - ssl (no certificate check yet) Aren't there ssl-wrappers already? I'm thinking of stunnel, but maybe that doesn't work in this setting. Addressbook support:  - dmc can read/edit a simple addressbook file Is this necessary? read:$ mail `grep cool dude

Re: [dev] [st] goals / non-goals for st?

2009-10-29 Thread Anders Andersson
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Anselm R Garbe ans...@garbe.us wrote: 2009/10/29 Moritz Wilhelmy c...@wzff.de: On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 12:15:37PM +0200, Richard Pöttler wrote: What do you think about transparency? I think it might collide with the suckless-goal and decrease speed. Not only

Re: [dev] Suckless word processing solution?

2009-09-22 Thread Anders Andersson
Whut? Lightweight resources on the host? How do you figure running a text editor in obfuscated javascript in a browser locally on your computer is lighter than running a text editor natively? // pipe 2009/9/22 Don Harper ducku...@gmail.com: Are you opposed to using the cloud?  Google docs

Re: [dev] dwm number of clients pointless?

2009-09-14 Thread Anders Andersson
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Antoni Grzymala ant...@chopin.edu.pl wrote: On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:44:57 -0700, Thayer Williams thay...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone disagrees that the number of clients indicating recently introduced to dwm-5.6+ is pointless and should be removed again? It's a

Re: [dev] dwm number of clients pointless?

2009-09-14 Thread Anders Andersson
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:25 AM, yy yiyu@gmail.com wrote: 2009/9/13 Kurt H Maier karmaf...@gmail.com: On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Anselm R Garbe garb...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone disagrees that the number of clients indicating recently introduced to dwm-5.6+ is pointless and should be