Re: [dwm] xgamma notify

2009-03-05 Thread Christoph Lohmann
Good morning. pancake schrieb: I have been playing a bit with xgamma and I think it can be useful as a graphical notification for important alerts like low battery or so. The usage is quite simple. and we can 'flash' the screen in red for a fraction of a second with: Don't do that, otherwis

Re: [dwm] xgamma notify

2009-03-05 Thread Neale Pickett
On 3/5/2009, "Engin Tola" wrote: >the problem with xmessage is that it steals the focus. do you know a way >to prevent it from doing that ? I haven't looked into it. When my battery is at 5%, I want to be sure I'm aware of it.

Re: [dwm] xgamma notify

2009-03-05 Thread miles
Dzen2 could also be used --Original Message-- From: Engin Tola Sender: Engin Tola To: dwm mail list ReplyTo: engin.t...@epfl.ch ReplyTo: dwm mail list Subject: Re: [dwm] xgamma notify Sent: Mar 5, 2009 18:31 the problem with xmessage is that it steals the focus. do you know a way to prev

Re: [dwm] xgamma notify

2009-03-05 Thread Engin Tola
the problem with xmessage is that it steals the focus. do you know a way to prevent it from doing that ? Neale Pickett writes: > On 3/5/2009, "Neale Pickett" wrote: > >> xbacklight =[some-value] >> xvattr -a XV_BRIGHTNESS -v [some-value] > > While I'm thinking of it, I use xmessage to wake m

Re: [dwm] xgamma notify

2009-03-05 Thread Neale Pickett
On 3/5/2009, "Neale Pickett" wrote: > xbacklight =[some-value] > xvattr -a XV_BRIGHTNESS -v [some-value] While I'm thinking of it, I use xmessage to wake me up when my battery is about to die. It has the nice advantage that if I'm not looking at the screen that instant, it'll be around when

Re: [dwm] xgamma notify

2009-03-05 Thread Neale Pickett
xgamma just changes the gamma, which may not be noticeable on things that are predominantly black and white. Here are a few suggestions that will set actual brightness: xbacklight =[some-value] xvattr -a XV_BRIGHTNESS -v [some-value] These may not work on all systems, but will probably work

Re: [dwm] xgamma notify

2009-03-05 Thread Engin Tola
nice! pancake writes: > I have been playing a bit with xgamma and I think it can be useful as a > graphical > notification for important alerts like low battery or so. > > The usage is quite simple. and we can 'flash' the screen in red for a > fraction of a second with: > > $ cat flash.sh > for

Re: [dwm] xgamma notify

2009-03-05 Thread Engin Tola
i use xterm+screen. no problem here. works like a charm. Alan Busby writes: > urxvt seems to ignore xgamma. So although it's a great idea, it isn't much > help if you only have some terminals open. > > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:05 AM, pancake > mailto:panc...@youterm.com>> wrote: > Samuel Bald

Re: [dwm] xgamma notify

2009-03-05 Thread pancake
I use xterm and it is affected by xgamma, the grey letters become darker for a while. Sounds strange that urxvt isnt :? Alan Busby wrote: urxvt seems to ignore xgamma. So although it's a great idea, it isn't much help if you only have some terminals open. On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:05 AM, panc

Re: [dwm] xgamma notify

2009-03-05 Thread Alan Busby
urxvt seems to ignore xgamma. So although it's a great idea, it isn't much help if you only have some terminals open. On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:05 AM, pancake wrote: > Samuel Baldwin wrote: > >> 2009/3/6 pancake : >> >> >>> I have been playing a bit with xgamma and I think it can be useful as a >

Re: [dwm] xgamma notify

2009-03-05 Thread pancake
Samuel Baldwin wrote: 2009/3/6 pancake : I have been playing a bit with xgamma and I think it can be useful as a graphical notification for important alerts like low battery or so. The usage is quite simple. and we can 'flash' the screen in red for a fraction of a second with: What ha

Re: [dwm] xgamma notify

2009-03-05 Thread Samuel Baldwin
2009/3/6 pancake : > I have been playing a bit with xgamma and I think it can be useful as a > graphical > notification for important alerts like low battery or so. > > The usage is quite simple. and we can 'flash' the screen in red for a > fraction of a second with: What happens if you're not loo

[dwm] xgamma notify

2009-03-05 Thread pancake
I have been playing a bit with xgamma and I think it can be useful as a graphical notification for important alerts like low battery or so. The usage is quite simple. and we can 'flash' the screen in red for a fraction of a second with: $ cat flash.sh for a in $(seq 1 $1); do xgamma -ggamma

Re: [dwm] .xinitrc error?

2009-03-05 Thread Anselm R Garbe
2009/3/5 Christoph Siegenthaler : > I haven't changed my dwm config.h since 4.9 and was using it happily for > months. I finally decided to try out 5.4.1 and I'm almost done. > The only problem is that I can't get the status bar to display what's piped > into dwm. It was working before and displaye

Re: [dwm] [dwm+ow...@suckless.org: Messages from dwm@suckless.org to you have been bouncing]

2009-03-05 Thread Szabolcs Nagy
On 3/5/09, Szabolcs Nagy wrote: > 7587 messages: Starting Wed Jul 19 2006 - 06:39:23 UTC, Ending Thu Mar > 05 2009 - 08:03:46 UTC > > so i wonder which is the no. 7600 if there is only 7538.. 7587 (sorry)

Re: [dwm] [dwm+ow...@suckless.org: Messages from dwm@suckless.org to you have been bouncing]

2009-03-05 Thread Szabolcs Nagy
On 3/5/09, Joerg van den Hoff wrote: > I now want to check _which_ messages exactly have bounced (if > at all). question: how can I identify the mail in the > mail archive from the message number given in the bounce message? > there seems to be no way (except counting myself...) to > deduce the in

Re: [dwm] Using dwm as a nested manager?

2009-03-05 Thread Jorge Vargas
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Anselm R Garbe wrote: > 2008/12/6 Jorge Vargas : >> Hi, I have been thinking about this for some time, and I like dwm a >> lot but I don't like it to manage all my windows, so I was wondering >> if it's possible to nest it inside another manager and tell it to >> ha

[dwm] [dwm+ow...@suckless.org: Messages from dwm@suckless.org to you have been bouncing]

2009-03-05 Thread Joerg van den Hoff
hi, I still get sporadically (about once a week) messages of this kind. our sysadmin tells me that he can't see any mails rejected by our server. I now want to check _which_ messages exactly have bounced (if at all). question: how can I identify the mail in the mail archive from the message numbe