On 2013-04-26 23:11, hiro wrote:
> just mod your shell to always copy all stdout of commands into a temp
> file, then open the file with less after one of these stupidly long
> commands.
Or run them via 'at'
Or run 'script' when you login
And sed out all the terminal carp later on.
On 2013-04-25 20:05, Christoph Lohmann wrote:
> while trying to copy some stuff from iotop I came to the idea of having
> some ??halt?? function in st. This is like the ??halt?? in 9term, where ev???
> erything will stand still but the terminal is working on the output in
> the background.
Why
On 2013-04-11 21:17, Carlos Torres wrote:
> it was there just a little hidden
> http://git.suckless.org/sites/tree/tools.suckless.org/ii/patches/ii-ipv6.diff
i mean in the ii repo -> http://git.suckless.org/ii
On 2013-04-11 20:53, Nico Golde wrote:
> http://tools.suckless.org/ii/patches/ii-ipv6.diff
Aw fsck. Can we put the patches in the git repo? Either as plain files
in patches/, or create a branch based on the commit they diff'd at?
On 2013-04-10 13:13, William Giokas wrote:
> There are extremely strong technical arguments for using systemd as a
> simple, easy to use and easy to configure initialization system.
systemd trades simplicity for boot-speed and stack integration.
There are always trade-offs. It's just this seems l
On 2013-02-21 10:19, sta...@cs.tu-berlin.de wrote:
> of course:
> sed -n '/^\s*
On 2013-02-21 14:19, Kai Hendry wrote:
> If you are a Makefile demi-god, you could please help me support input
> files blighted with spaces. For example running the Makefile on my
> blog, it chokes and stops with
> https://github.com/kaihendry/natalian/blob/master/archives/tag/fair%20use.mdwn
htt
On 2012-01-28 14:22, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote:
> When I think of it, I can't but wonder if we could write a program
> that does tagging and tagging only, and a selection of separate
> layout managers that automatically tile or maximize mapped windows.
> Interoperability with (other) no-wm tools wou
On 2012-01-04 21:28, Hannes Blut wrote:
> When making surf on my setup i get
do what the error says, add it to your libs in your config.mk, like:
LIBS = -L/usr/lib -lc -lX11 -ljavascriptcoregtk-1.0 ${GTKLIB} -lgthread-2.0
On 2012-01-02 12:26, hiro wrote:
> I don't understand how this is related to your quote?
Suraj re-evaluated his toolset. I think the re-evaluation part is a good
idea, however it seems you could spend too much time doing it.
> You always execute ls when you cd to a different folder?
in interacti
On 2012-01-01 21:13, Suraj N. Kurapati wrote:
> So I considered the trade-offs between SLOC minimalism, project and
> community activity, and my productivity in DWM vs. WMII and finally
> decided to switch back to WMII (which I used since six years prior).
How often do people re-evaluate their too
On 2011-12-23 23:16, hiro wrote:
> Only so nobody falls in the same pits: gnuplot sucks, bourne shell
> sucks (better use awk for tabular calculations)
post the scripts?
also, check out http://www.colorcombos.com/
On 2011-12-22 13:58, hiro wrote:
> What tools do you know that are able to render such graphics and
> update once per second or so?
push the burden of making pretty crap on the client; drop the data to
json and let the clients use a javascript library like highcharts.
On 2011-12-07 11:04, Justin Pogue wrote:
> At work, I typically have a terminal doing something like "while true;
> do ls -l /var/cores && sleep 10 && clear; done"
Jobs need two scriptable pathways to your brain: 1) an immediate
attention interrupt, and 2) a handle when not busy interrupt.
status
On 2011-11-27 15:32, Roger wrote:
> locate "stest" |grep ^stest$
08:53:31 Err 130 /Volumes/Users/phaller
> locate ls | grep ^ls$
08:53:34 Err 1 /Volumes/Users/phaller
> locate ls | grep ^/bin/ls$
/bin/ls
08:53:43 /Volumes/Users/phaller>
On 2011-11-25 22:42, Julian Dammann wrote:
> > It's all about spatial locality.
> Ever tried ":!your_terminal &" in vim? Maybe that's good enough for you if
> bound to some key.
autocmd BufEnter * cd %:p:h
for when you use multiple buffers in vim.
On 2011-11-18 13:24, pancake wrote:
> should we support code written by bitches?
K&R v1, page 59:
for (i = 0, j = strlen(s)-1; i < j; i++, j--) {
SLoC count? Bitch count? ;)
On 2011-11-18 11:40, pancake wrote:
>
> $ cat dwm.c | sed -e 's,;,ROFL\n,g' |grep ROFL |wc -l
use cpp to deal with the includes, defines, comments.
__sloc()
{
grep -v '^#include.*<' "$1" | cpp - | grep -v '^#' | grep -v '^$'
}
sloc()
{
__sloc "$1" | wc -l
__sloc "$1" | se
On 2011-11-17 09:05, Karl Eklund wrote:
>I'm having trouble with Gmail and surf. Almost always I get this in the
>chat widget: "Oops. Your chat connection may have been interrupted."
Seems you can maybe use the load-error signal:
http://webkitgtk.org/reference/webkitgtk-webkitwebview.html#
On 2011-11-03 16:30, Peter John Hartman wrote:
>
> Second of all, and instead, it just prints to stdout (a) the fact that the
> Download has started, together with the filename, and (b) the fact that it
> has finished/cancelled/errored, together with the filename.
Not much more to add a progress b
On 2011-10-31 19:58, Stephen Paul Weber wrote:
> 2) Is there any way to bring a window to the front programatically
> under 2wm? I tried xdotool windowactivate and it says the window
> manager does not support that, so I tried xdotool windowraise and
> that did nothing.
If you want to con
On 2011-10-31 10:49, pancake wrote:
> I dont understand the point of documentation.
Neither do I, so let's triage:
Deviation from Convention
served by README
Commentary on the Code
served by IRC, mailing list
What is this? How do I?
bless some wiki/forum someplace as *th
On 2011-10-30 20:04, Sime Ramov wrote:
> I've found the following clever ssh-agent stanza in Richard Crowley's
> `.profile`[https://raw.github.com/rcrowley/home/master/.profile]:
...
> It works partially, i.e. it spawns a new agent on every shell
> invocation.
It should probably test for functiona
On 2011-10-29 19:22, Christoph Lohmann wrote:
>>> I'm looking for a cli newsreader, suckless, less dependencies. Thanks!
>> cron + curl + xmlstarlet + md5 = lighter than rss2email.py
> Would you mind sharing your script for that?
Not exactly posix, so it's got 1/2 of running code, rough concensus
On 2011-10-29 23:22, Yue Wu wrote:
> I'm looking for a cli newsreader, suckless, less dependencies. Thanks!
cron + curl + xmlstarlet + md5 = lighter than rss2email.py
Patrick
On 2011-10-29 01:44, Connor Lane Smith wrote:
> This thread is demented... *very* irritating.
Trolls have to perform some socially useful function or else we'd all
have learned by now.
Patrick
* yeah, I know it's only October. ;)
On 2011-10-26 11:48, Manolo MartÃnez wrote:
>
> In openbox I have a key bound to the following:"wmctrl -xa mutt ||
> urxvt -name mutt -e mutt"
xlsclients | grep -q mutt || urxvt -e mutt
On 2011-10-22 09:35, Connor Lane Smith wrote:
>
> the representation of data would be a concern of each program, not of
> the terminal, which would probably result in ugly.
Let's separate the concerns: UI and Data
UI = users should be able to be retarded && dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/face
This is a
On 2011-10-22 00:08, Connor Lane Smith wrote:
On 21/10/2011, Pierre Chapuis wrote:
> > http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
> Thanks, I enjoyed watching this.
"Let's all write parsers."
Hickey kicks unix because although pipes = composability, output and
input = free-form text. We
On 2011-10-16 20:12, Sime Ramov wrote:
> Hello. I need to keep track of one remote Nagios instance output, which
> excludes cnagios[1].
While nagios output can be made "lite" [1], watching system stats all
day does suck.
Is permanently allocating visual space really your best interrupt vector
(an
On 2011-10-02 22:52, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote:
> On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 21:55:56 +0300
> "Kiriakos at Kindstudios" wrote:
>
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I'm using many aliases in my terminal sessions and want to be able to use
> > them with dmenu
> > (which I use as the default menu in all of my xmonad ins
On 2011-09-28 14:51, Nick wrote:
> Quoth Troels Henriksen:
> > Nick writes:
> > Huh? I have not had trouble using wget for this.
> Can anyone else confirm / deny this?
Not for those sites, however I did see enough fails to add the same to
https://github.com/patrickhaller/surf-ph
Patrick
On 2011-09-25 03:19, Christoph Lohmann wrote:
> ocaml;wu (ocaml; won't use)
use the bringer_obsolete.bash [1] from the package?
why ocaml;wu? because it's outside the C/sh stack, or ?
Patrick
[1] send
"https://github.com/cfuehrmann/bringer/raw/master/bringer_obsolete.bash \r"
expect "bash;wu"
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 04:40:23PM +0200, f...@snakeoilproductions.net wrote:
> perhaps _20h_'s thingmenu fits your need?
> http://git.r-36.net/thingmenu/
or clock from http://www.jessies.org/~enh/software/x11/
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 08:01:10AM +0200, Petr Sabata wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 12:57:40PM +0800, Patrick Haller wrote:
> >
> > define $EDITOR then ^x^e
>
> I guess this is just something bash-specific?
yeah, edit the current command using $EDITOR
file manager
On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 09:03:06PM -0700, Noah Birnel wrote:
> ls >listing && vim listing && mv `cat listing` dest
define $EDITOR then ^x^e
Patrick
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:34:57PM +0200, Le Tian wrote:
>Yeah, your variant is better, but why should I make exec dwm?
I highly recommend writing a tiny looping shell script .e.g. each of the
various ideas below, and watching what they do with pstree or 'ps fax'.
#1
while true; do
ex
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 09:32:40AM +0100, Anselm R Garbe wrote:
>
> If you understand some of the C functions of dwm as Unix processes
> than you are pretty close to realise, one can play things pretty much
> Unix like, but if the LOC adds up dramatically at the bottom line, it
> is probably not wo
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 11:36:46AM +0800, sqweek wrote:
>
> Nice. Each task is so simple broken down like this :)
Thanks. I just added a focus manager that just makes sure focus is
returned to PointerRoot. It's not absolutely necessary to run, because
apps that exit taking focus with them can be
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 09:30:26AM +0100, Kurt Van Dijck wrote:
>
> To make it work smoothly, 1 such program needs a SubstructureRedirectMask.
> Technically, IMHO, that 1 program _is_ the window manager.
>
> I think the subject of the thread was a bit misleading.
Perhaps. With X11 and no window
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 11:17:50AM -0500, Kurt H Maier wrote:
> Precisely what value do you get out of hacking up shell scripts to do
> this with a dozen tools?
It's at least a good way to understand exactly what one gets from X11. ;)
Patrick
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 11:22:50AM -0500, Steve Ryan wrote:
>
> This is very cool, however I have one question. Correct me if
> I'm wrong, but you're replacing window-manager functionality with
> various small scripts and built-in X tools, right? So wouldn't you
> just be creating a (very mini
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 12:42:04PM +, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote:
>
> Sounds really cool, but have you figured out how to manage detached
> (off-screen) windows? Maybe windows that aren't on screen suck too
> much.
unmapped windows =>
xdotool search stupid_window windowmap
mapped not v
Anyone here try using X11 without a window manager?
Just using Xresources + specific tools: xbindkeys, xdotool, etc... I'm
documenting the setup and adding small tools as needed (x-alt-tab,
x-move-resize, x-session).
https://github.com/patrickhaller/no-wm
Patrick
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 07:34:48PM +0100, Benoit Chesneau wrote:
>
> What would you choose for a really minimal OS?
arch linux, rolling binary releases reduce maintenance time.
what do you want a minimal os for?
Patrick
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 02:28:42PM +0100, c...@wzff.de wrote:
>
> An alternative to this would be exporting these variables as
> environment variables. This way you don't have to do any parsing on
> your own (well, maybe inside the strings but not externally). Of
> course it only works for very si
On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 05:06:20PM -0500, Brandon LaRocque wrote:
> Which one do you use? Why do you use it? What does it have that the
> others don't?
XFS because http://www.jukie.net/bart/blog/usb2-enclosure-benchmark
Lots of tradeoffs with FSs, how about tackle userland first?
Patrick
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 11:28:20AM -0500, Eitan Goldshtrom wrote:
> Hi. I'm trying to print out a progress bar sort of thing that
> represents my remaining battery life.
Why use python? dc and printf suffice.
Patrick
percent=$1
buckets=10
# annoying math
decimal=$( dc -e "5 k $buckets $percent
On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:20:33, Thayer Williams wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Neale Pickett wrote:
> > Since the list is talking about slock, now might be an appropriate time
> > for me to mention again my xss project:
> >
> > http://woozle.org/~neale/src/xss/
> >
> > When I maile
Hi,
I got sick of the XBell in slock, so I added getopt support and a silent
option (default = False), patched against the mercurial tip.
I read the manifest and some of the source code; some of the projects
use getopt, others push config elsewhere. Am not sure which should apply
to slock.
Pa
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