Re: [dev] [dwm] dwm statusbar - see wmii

2011-10-17 Thread hiro
> A 5,000-line library to handle status bar IPC.  Super. It's not only used for the status bar

Re: [dev] [dwm] dwm statusbar - see wmii

2011-10-17 Thread Kurt H Maier
A 5,000-line library to handle status bar IPC. Super. -- # Kurt H Maier

Re: [dev] [dwm] dwm statusbar - see wmii

2011-10-17 Thread Suraj N. Kurapati
On Mon 17 Oct 2011 02:29:43 PM PDT, Connor Lane Smith wrote: > Separating the status bar from the window manager would require us > to fill root with atoms, or else invent our own IPC protocol, and > it would generally get quite messy. That's what wmii does, where IPC is done via the 9P2000 protoc

Re: [dev] Some questions about st and a patch

2011-10-17 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Somebody claiming to be Connor Lane Smith wrote: >On 17/10/2011, Stephen Paul Weber wrote: >> 4) alt+leftarrow and alt+rightarrow, which I use in irssi to swich chats, do >>not seem to work. Looking at st.c, it seems that kpress handles the >>

Re: [dev] Some questions about st and a patch

2011-10-17 Thread Connor Lane Smith
Hey, On 17/10/2011, Stephen Paul Weber wrote: > 4) alt+leftarrow and alt+rightarrow, which I use in irssi to swich chats, do >not seem to work. Looking at st.c, it seems that kpress handles the >arrow keys specially, which may be breaking this? I'm not a st developer, but I've had a loo

Re: [dev] Some questions about st and a patch

2011-10-17 Thread Nick
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 09:44:19AM -0500, Stephen Paul Weber wrote: > 3) How do I scroll up the scrollbuffer? The Shift+PageUp I'm used > to does not seem to work. This isn't implemented in st yet, sadly. Some people are happy having tmux manage scrollback stuff.

Re: [dev] Fwd: [hackers] printf("Rest in peace, Dennis\n"); exit(0);

2011-10-17 Thread Džen
Invent the C programming language and UNIX, then die: nobody gives a shit. Market other people's technologies to rich white kids, then die: HE WAS LIKE FCUKING EINSTEIN ZOMG EDISON WTFBBQ. -- Džen

[dev] Some questions about st and a patch

2011-10-17 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
I've started using st and have some questions/issues: 1) To get the foreground colour I want, I changed index 7 of colorname[] to grey -- will this have any strange site effects? 2) The foreground colour "brightblack" in mutt (which shows as a grey in xterm/rxvt) shows as straight black, whic

Re: [dev] dmenu: mouse patch

2011-10-17 Thread Thuban
Great! Something I've been waiting for a ling time! It would be nice on the wiki! Le 00:57:33 le 17 oct. 2011 , Connor Lane Smith a écrit : > Hey all, > > In case anyone's interested, here's a patch which adds some basic > mouse support to dmenu. > > You can click things, click the paginators ("

Re: [dev] [dwm] adding docking support

2011-10-17 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Petr Sabata wrote: > It's in the default dwm config, line 93... Woops. I guess I should probably glance at config.def.h once in a while. I must have removed that so long ago that it was lost in the mists of brain. -- # Kurt H Maier

Re: [dev] [dwm] adding docking support

2011-10-17 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Stephen Paul Weber wrote: > Isn't "docking" really just another layout?  One where most windows tile > below a window kept at the top/side? > Kinda, but it then it depends on recursive window management.

Re: [dev] [dwm] adding docking support

2011-10-17 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
Connor Lane Smith wrote: > their status bar without a bunch of garish icons; text will suffice. Yes, but using fancy fonts. Thankfully, patching is possible. Thus my point is moot. Robert Pansom wrote: >I would think you'ld *like* setting _NET_NUMBER_OF_DESKTOPS to 2^10 by Or 2^9-1. But your point

Re: [dev] [dwm] adding docking support

2011-10-17 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
Somebody claiming to be Peter John Hartman wrote: I'm really not convinced a generic status bar would work better than dwm's does now. Not that I care about statusbars and dockbars--I just want dwm to play nice with onscreen keyboards---I think, that said, that his point is that there's no conc

Re: [dev] [dwm] adding docking support

2011-10-17 Thread Connor Lane Smith
On 17/10/2011, Peter John Hartman wrote: > Not that I care about statusbars and dockbars--I just want dwm to play nice > with onscreen keyboards---I think, that said, that his point is that there's > no conceptual tension between dwm and a statusbar *since dwm has a > statusbar*. I agree, then. I

Re: [dev] [dwm] adding docking support

2011-10-17 Thread Robert Ransom
On 2011-10-16, Kurt H Maier wrote: > On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Bjartur Thorlacius > wrote: >> First, docking is generally useful for panels. Dwm sucks as a status >> bar. Should the information displayed in the status bar not be >> properties on the root window to dwm? A panel can then kee

Re: [dev] [dwm] adding docking support

2011-10-17 Thread Peter John Hartman
> That's not exactly what I'd describe as an application launcher, but I > still don't understand what you're complaining about. If you want to > change dwm's status bar, customise your buttons[]. (And a clock? > That's just the root window title.) > > I'm really not convinced a generic status bar

Re: [dev] [dwm] adding docking support

2011-10-17 Thread Petr Sabata
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 09:08:04AM -0400, Kurt H Maier wrote: > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Bjartur Thorlacius > wrote: > > Try clicking the title (selmon->bar IIRC). Wait for a terminal > > emulator to spawn. > > What? No. What code do you see that's supposed to do that? Did you > put th

Re: [dev] [dwm] adding docking support

2011-10-17 Thread Connor Lane Smith
On 17/10/2011, Kurt H Maier wrote: > What? No. What code do you see that's supposed to do that? Did you > put that into your config.h? config.def.h:93 On 17/10/2011, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > Try clicking the title (selmon->bar IIRC). Wait for a terminal > emulator to spawn. That's not ex

Re: [dev] [dwm] adding docking support

2011-10-17 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > Try clicking the title (selmon->bar IIRC). Wait for a terminal > emulator to spawn. What? No. What code do you see that's supposed to do that? Did you put that into your config.h? -- # Kurt H Maier

Re: [dev] [dwm] adding docking support

2011-10-17 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Connor Lane Smith wrote: > On 17/10/2011, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > dmenu != dwm > Try clicking the title (selmon->bar IIRC). Wait for a terminal emulator to spawn.

Re: [dev] [dwm] adding docking support

2011-10-17 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > Yet dwm sports a half-assed status bar that works as an application > launcher and clock. This could be implemented more modularily by > XEmbedding... although it would probably wind more complicated than > necessary. dwm's status bar i

Re: [dev] [dwm] adding docking support

2011-10-17 Thread Connor Lane Smith
On 17/10/2011, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > a half-assed status bar that works as an application launcher dmenu != dwm cls

Re: [dev] [dwm] adding docking support

2011-10-17 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 10:05 PM, Kurt H Maier wrote: > Panels are a part of a different interface paradigm.  dwm does not > have desktops.  This is another example of software that shouldn't be > crammed into dwm. > Yet dwm sports a half-assed status bar that works as an application launcher and