Matthias-Christian Ott wrote:
What I really like about it is that rendered documents (which used to
be PostScript or PDF) are now the same as ordinary applications except
that applications handle input and may modify their window contents.
NeWS sort of worked that way, except its virtual mach
Matthias-Christian Ott wrote:
I would really like to throw away X11. So that you have a universal
hardware-implementable rendering language and system (buffer management
etc.) and an event layer on top of it. So if you want to browse a
hyperlinked document you compile it to the rendering language
Yoshi Rokuko wrote:
I agree, but what about simplicity if you need to program and to run an
extra binary in order to get the status of your windows? I think you would
get more flexibility but lose simplicity?
You are wise, there is a tradeoff. DWM is, I think, the community
for those who balanc
hiro wrote:
Dwm is also philosophically transformational if you've not previously
absorbed the concept of "Simplicity as a Virtue".
I don't understand a word, sorry.
And yeah, I understand what simplicity is about..
I didn't mean to imply that you hadn't. I mean there is a world
of open s
hiro wrote:
Dwm is arranging windows dynamically, listens to multiple X events
and, as far as I know, provides a status bar.
It's doing quite some stuff in my view...
Dwm is also philosophically transformational if you've not previously
absorbed the concept of "Simplicity as a Virtue".
--
Ja
andrew wrote:
Tagmasks? Why are we forcing the user to do this in binary?
/I considered re-using stdin as well, but in any case having
customization features will lead to more code, esp. more
only-once executed code, that's why I don't like either way
much... And it doesn't keeps the novices
bill lam wrote:
I'm happy to report that fm can now display japanese and chinese for
locale utf-8.
And I'm happy to report that the OpenBSD crew informed me I can include
SIGWINCH
(which has a bad aroma in OpenBSD due to linked list fu) by adding the
switch
-D_BSD_SOURCE to the Makefile. Up an
Ricardo Catalinas Jiménez wrote:
At this moment I don't have OpenBSD installed to try it. But I removed
the -ansi and -pedantic flags from the published code because they are
too strict for the casual user and they can cause too much trouble.
CFLAGS = -O2 -Wall $$(pkg-config --cflags glib-2.0)
L
markus schnalke wrote:
[2008-12-27 11:48] Ian Daniher
What's wrong with midnight commander? It's an oldy but a goody.
This too, but worst is its usability. The keystrokes are a real mess.
Unless you know them all from doing them over and over again :)
My IDE for Java web app deve
Ian Daniher wrote:
What's wrong with midnight commander? It's an oldy but a goody.
Using it for at least 15 years (and Norton Commander on MS-DOS before
that). I use mc every day. It's my most important file tool. I even keep
older
(and simpler) revs of MC around so I can compile it on weird
Ricardo Catalinas Jiménez wrote:
I tried it after vifm but what I really wanted was a very minimal
filesystem viewer with vim-like commands, that's why I wrote fm.
Cute, from screenshot and description, fm reminds me of FULIST on z/VM.
But it doesn't build on OpenBSD:
$ gmake CC=gcc
I blogged about dwm -->
http://dobbscodetalk.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=dwm.html&Itemid=29
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http://www.well.com/~jax # half the battle!"
http://www.softwoehr.com # - Zippy the Pinhead
Just started using dwm again. I like the new monocole layout. Thanks.
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http://www.well.com/~jax # half the battle!"
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