Re: [dwm] snapping bugs with multiple screens

2008-05-05 Thread Mate Nagy
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:06:54PM +0200, Antoni Grzymala wrote: I've found running separate dwm instances on subdisplays entirely sufficient for my multihead needs. I don't even have time and will to try and comprehend all the new DEFGEOM stuff (and neither I see a reason). Hence I vote -1

Re: [dwm] Status text clock patch

2008-07-10 Thread Mate Nagy
Hulloh, On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 06:35:03PM +0300, John Mpanos wrote: After some digging around i figured what to do to draw text in the status area, so i wrote a simple clock using threads. I can't understand though why the clock doesn't get updated sometimes even though i call drawbar()

Re: [dwm] Being not so elitist

2008-07-29 Thread Mate Nagy
Greetings, This keeps its userbase small and elitist. No novices asking stupid questions. i wholeheartedly support these words. Please discuss about removing, or altering that. The reason is, that I met people who thought, that the dwm-/suckless- community is arrogant. They

Re: [dwm] Being not so elitist

2008-07-29 Thread Mate Nagy
Hello, We are publishing a software for the masses: we make it available and have a website for it, a mailing list, a wiki, and a mercurial repository. There is nothing elitist about that. The fact that we have to modify the source to customise the product is IMHO, you're staggeringly wrong,

Re: [dwm] Being not so elitist

2008-07-29 Thread Mate Nagy
I would like to propose adding xft support and gnome systray support to dwm. And also sound effects. Neat idea. Also, someone could write a config editor that patched the binary (like what Dehacked did to the old DOS DOOM). M.

Re: [dwm] dwm-5.1 / dmenu-3.8 / sic-1.0 / slock-0.9 / sselp-0.2

2008-07-29 Thread Mate Nagy
Hello, Just because I'm curious: Am I the only one using readline (shell, etc.) with Emacs key bindings and am therefore always remapping/deleting some default dwm key bindings? Or is everyone using readline in vi mode? we're using Mod4 as modkey. M.

Re: [dwm] Coding styles

2008-07-31 Thread Mate Nagy
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 01:37:22PM +0200, pancake wrote: I wrote a random list of tips for coding (mostly in C) http://news.nopcode.org/miau/wk/BadCoding If you have some ideas/missing tips i'm open for discussion :) I mostly agree with everything, except with your bizarre anger against

Re: [dwm] suckless wiki gopher

2008-07-31 Thread Mate Nagy
hiya, A while ago there was some talk about making the wiki available in gopherspace. I made a quick mockup: gopher://schot.a-eskwadraat.nl/1/suckless The idea is pretty simple: No conversion to html and embed the index.md page in the gophermenu (yes, 'i' itemtype abuse).

Re: [dwm] Asustek EEE PC 1000 Atom 1GB 40G SSD Linux Black

2008-09-05 Thread Mate Nagy
Greetings, On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 10:28:28AM +0100, Anselm R Garbe wrote: What do people think about such an EEE PC as low budget option to run dwm on? Any experiences already if the screen is big enough for daily work? I had an opportunity yesterday to try one, and I must admit I'm keen to

[dwm] window move lag

2008-09-05 Thread Mate Nagy
Hulloh, let's say that I have a number of floating windows running complicated OpenGL applications. When I move them around (by mod+mouse1 drag), moving the window each step takes some time. This time is larger than the frequency at which dwm gets mousemotions, thus the movement lags behind the

Re: [dwm] window move lag

2008-09-05 Thread Mate Nagy
Actually, I quite like the old styled XOR-outline method. I may not be as pretty, but it's definitely useful for various applications that take ages to resize their windows. I also like the XOR outline. I even think it's prettier ;) Mate

Re: [dwm] what about 'st'?

2008-09-05 Thread Mate Nagy
My display looked like a farmland some time ago. I just had key bindings in dwm to open xterms with a given background color in a given screen window. It looked like this: http://y-i-y-u-s.deviantart.com/art/dwm-4-4-1-65928966 This is the most horrifying thing I have ever seen.

Re: [dwm] slowness in moving windows OR vlc/mplayer crash

2008-09-09 Thread Mate Nagy
Greetings, I really need the redraw to manage gimp windows, sometimes I just have to see what they are doing to know the size I want, I have the same problem with image viewers, openoffice, etc, but if the server grab solution is simpler I won't matter maintaining a patch for that, maybe a

Re: [dwm] OT : suckless foreign function interface

2008-11-14 Thread Mate Nagy
Greetings, 1. Generate small C programs and call them via system() inside the scheme interpreter. well, if speed is a non-issue... ... how about dlopen/dlsym? that's pretty simple and rather usual. Callable C functions should export a standard API (like the builtins in your interpreter?), you

Re: [dwm] dwm-5.3

2008-12-04 Thread Mate Nagy
Greetings, option which allows to set use server grabs during mouse based resizals/movements. now i'm using a computer where this is again an issue, except much more so, and not only with GL windows (big shared framebuffer mode with intel 945gm). I tried hacking server grabs into dwm 5.2 myself

Re: [dwm] dwm and dualhead

2008-12-10 Thread Mate Nagy
Hiho, On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 06:05:23PM +0100, Johannes Wegener wrote: Hi, is there anybody who has experience with dwm and dualhead setups? I tried to use dwm with a xrandr dualhead but it seemed quite useless becouse I could just drag floating windows into the second screen. Xinerama seems

Re: [dwm] dwm and dualhead

2008-12-10 Thread Mate Nagy
Hiho, On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 05:37:14PM +, Anselm R Garbe wrote: 2008/12/10 Johannes Wegener [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, is there anybody who has experience with dwm and dualhead setups? I tried to use dwm with a xrandr dualhead but it seemed quite useless becouse I could just drag

Re: [dwm] dwm and dualhead

2008-12-10 Thread Mate Nagy
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 06:36:12PM +, Anselm R Garbe wrote: The lesson I learnt from this: I will never buy a laptop with integrated intel graphics again. Which laptop model is to blame? ;) Lenovo 3000 V100. Especially painful is that otherwise I love this one - great keyboard, good

Re: [dwm] dwm and dualhead

2008-12-11 Thread Mate Nagy
Hiho, On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 09:39:19AM +0100, yy wrote: on this list and, if somebody finds a great _general_ solution (which seems difficult, but I would be love to be wrong), I'm sure Anselm would be glad to include it in the official release. Just my 2cts, I don't see anything difficult

Re: [dwm] dwm and dualhead

2008-12-11 Thread Mate Nagy
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 09:52:45AM +, Anselm R Garbe wrote: - have a dwm environment on each Xinerama screen (like multiple dwm's in classic multihead setups) as suggested by Mate - the problem was, it didn't felt right because it added another navigation layer on top of dwm, to

Re: [dwm] plan for dwm

2008-12-12 Thread Mate Nagy
Hiho, On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 07:15:55PM +, Anselm R Garbe wrote: Hi, here is the plan: slock-1.1 will be released soon containing Ali's patch with some minor modifications. dwm-5.4 will also be released soon containing the transition patch with the proposed x property based status

Re: [dwm] What happened here?

2009-01-20 Thread Mate Nagy
Hiya, The website lists clarity as a feature. Clarity! As for only having to learn C code to edit the config, I know C reasonably well, but I get bad vibes from config.h, I think I'd rather try to learn Lua. do consider the alternatives - xmonad is a smashing tiling wm (using it now for its

Re: [dwm] CLI color/font override patch

2009-02-24 Thread Mate Nagy
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 02:05:21PM -0500, Jeremy Jay wrote: If you want to avoid the compile I'm sure it'd be just as easy to use a hex-editor on the strings. we should write something like Dehacked for dwm :D Mate

Re: [dwm] Suckess Code Management

2009-03-12 Thread Mate Nagy
Window Manager = xmonad (for working twinview support) Shell = zsh and bash (zsh is good but oh so slow...) File Manager = shell/mc Text Editor = vim Calendar / Todo = nothing/cal/text files in svn File search = locate/find/grep/ctags!! SCM = svn E-Mail = mutt Music = mocp Chat = irssi bitlbee

Re: [dwm] Gvim size problem

2009-04-15 Thread Mate Nagy
Just tried, does not help. in fact, this problem appears with xmonad as well, so it's probably generic to all tiling wms; tiling wms are Doing It Wrong - probably according to the text of the standards, but many apps don't respect these standards. If Java doesn't work because it's a buggy POS,

Re: [dwm] dwm's future

2009-04-26 Thread Mate Nagy
Hi all, I'm sure there is a severe risk of this piece being understood as flamebait (this is not my intention). However, I strongly believe that the major problem of dwm currently is not font handling (8bit ascii bitmap fonts are perfectly fine thank you); not the status bar (it's great);

Re: [dwm] dwm's future

2009-04-26 Thread Mate Nagy
...that's from dwm 5.4.1, using xrandr --output DVI-0 --right-of DVI-1. Problem solved. well obviously i had something more sophisticated in mind :) like, horribile dictu, displaying different tags or different layouts on different monitors. or supporting more monitors than 2... M.

Re: [dwm] musca wm

2009-05-15 Thread Mate Nagy
I cannot understand GNU software. ls or cat source in GNU is scary, glibc is even worse. The old UNIX utilities or Plan9 ones have a simplicity which GNU lacks. I don't have anything against the GPL license, but I prefer less restrictive licenses. And, of course, I don't like rms. i don't

Re: [dwm] musca wm

2009-05-16 Thread Mate Nagy
Greetings, Using a prefork or similar technique done by apache f.ex can really accelerate such tasks, so a minimal vi editor with nice features can be really achieved by delegating all such features to external apps or libraries a minimal application with a dozen external modules,