[dev] wmii theming

2011-03-14 Thread Le Tian
Hello guys, I recently installed wmii on SUSE 11.4 and I really like it. MY question is very simple, how can I add themes to it. I tried to make a ~.wmii/wmii.rc file and add these lines there: #!/bin/sh -f # Configure wmii # Colors tuples: text background border WMII_NORMCOLORS='#e0e0e0 #44

Re: [dev] wmii theming

2011-03-15 Thread Le Tian
thanks Jase, I will look into it. Take care.

[dev] wmii status bar config

2011-03-16 Thread Le Tian
HI everybody! I'm happy to use wmii after tweaking some things, making autorun scripts and binding hotkeys, all is done. But I have another question. I want to config my status bar, I want it to show some terminal output of my sensors or any bash script. Now it displays 'average load, date and

Re: [dev] wmii status bar config

2011-03-16 Thread Le Tian
thanks a lot. ok, I'll check it out. I installed this version(3.9.2) from source, so decided not to mess with config.mk, edited only default terminal, other options were set by default, so I guess its where it was intended to be. And the name of wmii dir doesn't have any version embedded, its just

Re: [dev] wmii status bar config

2011-03-17 Thread Le Tian
Hi again, I'm trying to find out how to make a custom status bar in wmii. I have found status() lines in /home/wmii.rc file(hmmm what is it doing here?!) these is what I found: status() { Action status if wmiir remove /rbar/status 2/dev/null; then echo $WMII_NORMCOLORS | wmiir

Re: [dev] [wmii] Chromium always starts as a floating window

2011-03-17 Thread Le Tian
its quite simple, 1. start chromium 2. goto preferences 3. goto personal stuff 4. in appearance choose use GTK-theme or use system title bar and borders. 5. thats it that will make chromium start with system borders that are managed by wmii, so browser will not start in a floating window.

Re: [dev] wmii status bar config

2011-03-17 Thread Le Tian
thanks a lot, that is better, cause my wmiirc_local is empty) I use xbindkeys for hotkeying - didn't want to mess with my wmii scattered-all-over-the-place files. I'll try it out.

Re: [dev] [wmii] Chromium always starts as a floating window

2011-03-18 Thread Le Tian
I feel like I should add. This is not a Chrome only issue, any app that has its own theming, loads up in floating mode, (ex: qmmp) Moreover, if you open up such an application via MOD4+p and then try to open a terminal(for ex.) in the same workspace that floating application is, terminal will load

Re: [dev] [wmii] Chromium always starts as a floating window

2011-03-18 Thread Le Tian
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Thomas Dahms da...@ymail.com wrote: Moreover, if you open up such an application via MOD4+p and then try to open a terminal(for ex.) in the same workspace that floating application is, terminal will load in a floating mode too, You can switch between the

Re: [dev] [wmii] Tabbed mode?

2011-03-23 Thread Le Tian
I think you have a widescreen, well, its sometimes can be tiresome a bit, but such positioning saves a lot of screen space. You can make tabs(in the taskbar) like (shift + Mod4 + t) then you write a name of a tab you want, and current active screen become a tab in the taskbar. As alternative you

[dev] dwm taskbar config

2011-03-23 Thread Le Tian
Hi everybody, after using wmii for a week, I decided to try dwm, and liked it even MORE! But I have a question, how do I run some script output in my taskbar the way I did in wmiirc_local, I mean time, hdd space etc. I looked up config.h but didn't find anything there to look like bar config. I

Re: [dev] dwm taskbar config

2011-03-23 Thread Le Tian
ok, sorry, thanks, I will look into it

Re: [dev] dwm taskbar config

2011-03-23 Thread Le Tian
well what I need, is a sample of somebody's config, without exec dwm? cause it is executed right after login by the system, I do not run startx, I use KDE login manager to start dwm, so .xinitrc with exec dwm is useless, am I right? I'm sorry guys, I'm just a user, and I can't write shell scripts

[dev] dwm taskbar font

2011-04-03 Thread Le Tian
Could somebody explain or help me how to set a dwm taskbar font properly, cause I'm tired of guessing what am I doing wrong: I run arch and added dwm via abs into my home dir. So here are my actions: 1. cd into dwm compile dir (cd Public/dwm_sync/dwm/) 2. ls Public/dwm_sync/dwm/ { config config.h

Re: [dev] dwm taskbar font

2011-04-03 Thread Le Tian
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Jan k...@unstable.nl wrote: On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 13:52:59 +0300, Le Tian tiane...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] 5. restart looks alright, I don't know about the makepkg arguments. Why don't you just clone the hg and compile it? My binary is in $HOME/.local/bin

Re: [dev] dwm taskbar font

2011-04-03 Thread Le Tian
thank you guys, just edited config.h and installed from source -- it works, I shouldn't have used abs. the issue is closed.

[dev] dwm xsetroot colorful fonts howto?

2011-05-13 Thread Le Tian
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 ( http://dwm.suckless.org/patches/statuscolors) but that I don't like, I need fonts to be colored not a colorful bg or fg in the taskbar, and maybe its possible to

Re: [dev] dwm xsetroot colorful fonts howto?

2011-05-13 Thread Le Tian
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 12:06 AM, Connor Lane Smith c...@lubutu.com wrote: Hey, On 13 May 2011 22:01, 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 (http

Re: [dev] dwm xsetroot colorful fonts howto?

2011-05-14 Thread Le Tian
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 6:45 AM, Anders Andersson pipat...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Bogdan IonuČ› 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

Re: [dev] dwm taskbar icons via pcf font

2011-05-18 Thread Le Tian
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Robert Ransom rransom.8...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, 17 May 2011 20:45:17 +0300 Le Tian tiane...@gmail.com wrote: Recently I've bumped into a thread with a nice solution to takbar icons in dwm via editing any pcf font. So I converted pcf to bdf

Re: [dev] dwm taskbar icons via pcf font

2011-05-19 Thread Le Tian
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Andrew Hills hills...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Le Tian tiane...@gmail.com wrote: This method seems pretty nice, but somehow I still can't make my modified font icons work, I made an icon under 0045 index, that replaced E letter

Re: [dev] dwm taskbar icons via pcf font

2011-05-19 Thread Le Tian
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:04 AM, pancake panc...@youterm.com wrote: yay. this windings approach looks cool. Can you explain in a wiki/web the steps to create such font file, and how to do your setup? i will probably not use it.. but i think it can be useful for things like swk or dzen. at

Re: [dev] suckless games collection?

2011-05-26 Thread Le Tian
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 5:01 AM, pancake panc...@youterm.com wrote: I found this chess implementation in obfuscated C. I'm sure than cleaning it up (deobfuscating it) will make it ready to be in the cathegory of suckless games

Re: [dev] suckless games collection?

2011-05-26 Thread Le Tian
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 5:16 AM, pancake panc...@youterm.com wrote: On 05/26/11 10:58, Le Tian wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 5:01 AM, pancake panc...@youterm.com mailto: panc...@youterm.com wrote: I found this chess implementation in obfuscated C. I'm sure than cleaning it up

Re: [dev] [st] Font issues

2011-05-31 Thread Le Tian
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Bryan Bennett bbenn...@gmail.com wrote: So far, this font issue and the lack of a scrollback buffer are my only issues with st. I'm having strange problems with urxvt under another (inferior / floating) window manager, which has pushed me towards st. I could

Re: [dev] ideas on suckless file manager

2011-06-07 Thread Le Tian
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:12 AM, pancake panc...@youterm.com wrote: I've never felt the need of seeing files as icons. It's just inneficient and useless. Many years ago i wrote 'canoe' a lightweight filemanager in gtk. I did it for the n770.. So clicking on icons is better than Using the

Re: [dev] ideas on suckless file manager

2011-06-07 Thread Le Tian
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Connor Lane Smith c...@lubutu.com wrote: Hey, On 7 June 2011 15:53, Le Tian tiane...@gmail.com wrote: There are occasions, when u need to see or show some lovely icons. With the exception of image thumbnails, icons are really completely pointless. On 7

Re: [dev] ideas on suckless file manager

2011-06-07 Thread Le Tian
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Benjamin R. Haskell suckl...@benizi.comwrote: On Tue, 7 Jun 2011, Le Tian wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Connor Lane Smith wrote: [...] (I find inverting the colours actually helps to a worrying degree.) Interesting... Yeah, I find inverting

Re: [dev] revolution

2011-06-10 Thread Le Tian
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Kurt H Maier karmaf...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Le Tian tiane...@gmail.com wrote: What do you think about WMFS, and how it is better or worse than dwm? This is a very amateurish attempt at trolling. Please check the mailing list

Re: [dev] revolution

2011-06-10 Thread Le Tian
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Kurt H Maier karmaf...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Le Tian tiane...@gmail.com wrote: wasn't even thinking about trolling, I'm trying to ask people, who I think to be more experienced, than I am. That's it. That's precisely the sort

[dev] volume level in dwm taskbar

2011-06-20 Thread Le Tian
As long as aumix -q refuses to work after the latest update, what you guys use to probe volume level? amixer could be an alternative but it outputs crap, that is difficult to awk. -- Tian

Re: [dev] volume level in dwm taskbar

2011-06-20 Thread Le Tian
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Nick suckless-...@njw.me.uk wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:00:38PM +0300, Le Tian wrote: As long as aumix -q refuses to work after the latest update, what you guys use to probe volume level? amixer could be an alternative but it outputs crap

[dev] utf-8 and custom pcf font conflict

2011-06-20 Thread Le Tian
While trying to make a custom pcf font with icons for dwm taskbar I ultimately didn't manage to make it work under utf-8. Is there a workaround for this problem? -- Tian

[dev] hell with the Terminus font?

2011-06-21 Thread Le Tian
I wonder why does dwm refuse to use terminus font? I get dwm missing fontset for several locales (if it is somehow related?) and a message that dwm failed to load terminus font. Whenever I rebuild dwm for terminus I get a crappy default font. Who does use terminus, and whats your config? My

Re: [dev] How to use tabbed with surf?

2011-06-21 Thread Le Tian
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Connor Lane Smith c...@lubutu.com wrote: Hey, On 21 June 2011 11:29, Le Tian tiane...@gmail.com wrote: tried ctrl+alt+enter to run surf, but that didn't work, neither did man was informative. The man page tells you to use Ctrl-Shift-Return. cls As I

Re: [dev] How to use tabbed with surf?

2011-06-21 Thread Le Tian
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Valentin Plechinger v.plechin...@gmail.com wrote: I use dwm, through dmenu run tabbed, get a full grey screen with tabbed 0.3 in the left top corner. Then I try ctrl+shift+enter; ctrl+alt+enter, nothing happens. Where I can redefine the hotkeys? Maybe