Re: [dwm] Re: What happened here?

2009-01-27 Thread Jack Woehr
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

Re: [dwm] Re: What happened here?

2009-01-26 Thread Yoshi Rokuko
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Christian Garbs wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 01:42:32PM +0100, hiro wrote: >> dwm arranges the windows on the screen, nothing more, nothing less. >> No program icons, no desktop environment, no notification services. > > Dwm is arranging windows dynamically,

Re: [dwm] Re: What happened here?

2009-01-25 Thread Jack Woehr
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

Re: [dwm] Re: What happened here?

2009-01-25 Thread hiro
> 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...

Re: [dwm] Re: What happened here?

2009-01-25 Thread Jack Woehr
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

Re: [dwm] Re: What happened here?

2009-01-25 Thread hiro
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Christian Garbs wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 01:42:32PM +0100, hiro wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Yoshi Rokuko >> wrote: >> > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:37:58AM +0100, hiro wrote: > >> >> Still, dwm somehow seems very much not unix alike for me.

Re: [dwm] Re: What happened here?

2009-01-25 Thread Christian Garbs
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 01:42:32PM +0100, hiro wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Yoshi Rokuko > wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:37:58AM +0100, hiro wrote: > >> Still, dwm somehow seems very much not unix alike for me. > > what do you mean, or what would be a more nix'isch WM? >

Re: [dwm] Re: What happened here?

2009-01-20 Thread hiro
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:33 PM, markus schnalke wrote: > [2009-01-20 13:42] hiro <23h...@googlemail.com> >> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Yoshi Rokuko >> wrote: >> > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:37:58AM +0100, hiro wrote: >> >> Still, dwm somehow seems very much not unix alike for me. >> > >>

Re: [dwm] Re: What happened here?

2009-01-20 Thread markus schnalke
[2009-01-20 13:42] hiro <23h...@googlemail.com> > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Yoshi Rokuko > wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:37:58AM +0100, hiro wrote: > >> Still, dwm somehow seems very much not unix alike for me. > > > > what do you mean, or what would be a more nix'isch WM? > > Co

Re: [dwm] Re: What happened here?

2009-01-20 Thread hiro
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Yoshi Rokuko wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:37:58AM +0100, hiro wrote: >> Still, dwm somehow seems very much not unix alike for me. > > what do you mean, or what would be a more nix'isch WM? > > regards, y0shi > > Could be, that X doesn't allow it to be more

Re: [dwm] Re: What happened here?

2009-01-20 Thread yy
2009/1/20 hiro <23h...@googlemail.com>: [snip] > Still, dwm somehow seems very much not unix alike for me. > Well, X doesn't look like UNIX neither, however you look at it. -- - yiyus || JGL .

Re: [dwm] Re: What happened here?

2009-01-20 Thread Yoshi Rokuko
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:37:58AM +0100, hiro wrote: > Still, dwm somehow seems very much not unix alike for me. what do you mean, or what would be a more nix'isch WM? regards, y0shi

Re: [dwm] Re: What happened here?

2009-01-20 Thread hiro
I think andrew's point is about dwm's very own style. You can, though, use dwm without any problems out of the box, and thus I don't fully agree with him. Still, dwm somehow seems very much not unix alike for me.

Re: [dwm] Re: What happened here?

2009-01-20 Thread Premysl Hruby
On (20/01/09 09:49), henry atting wrote: > To: dwm@suckless.org > From: henry atting > Subject: [dwm] Re: What happened here? > Reply-To: dwm mail list > List-Id: dwm mail list > User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) > Cancel-Lock: sha1:WaXw8q

[dwm] Re: What happened here?

2009-01-20 Thread henry atting
I recently switched from dwm to xmonad. I did not like the rigid constraint on a certain number of code lines. The resulting way of doing it with patches in my opinion is not very sincere. I needed only two - and they did not match. Though I do not know haskell at all I find it very simple to con