Re: [dwm] Slightly OT: Looking for decent graphics card

2009-04-14 Thread Preben Randhol
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:58:06 +0200 Tube t...@count0.net wrote: Sorry for being a little bit off-topic but I think you're the people who might have the clue. I'm looking for a good 2D graphics card from a manufacturer that supports linux drivers that work. I used Matrox all the years but the

[dwm] Gvim size problem

2009-04-15 Thread Preben Randhol
Hi I have been using dwm for a couple of weeks now and I really love it! Especially the automatic tiling system so I don't need to move and resize my windows. I found the horizontal tiling patch and pertag patch to be very valuable for my needs. I use it on my Eee PC and an old computer. My main

Re: [dwm] Gvim size problem

2009-04-15 Thread Preben Randhol
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:09:41 + mi...@milesgroman.com wrote: You can try setting the resizehints boolean value to false in your config.h On my Asus I use false otherwise the apps don't fill the whole screen and that looks not so nice I think. But whether I use false or true it doesn't

[dwm] Keybinding to jump to next/prev tag?

2009-04-15 Thread Preben Randhol
Hi I have one more question. I'm used to keybindings from going to the next or previous workspace (tag). Is there any that has a working patch/function so that one can f.ex bind Mod4-Shift-j/k to go to next/prev tag? I can of course use the Mod4-number to jump, but sometimes it is nice to just be

Re: [dwm] Keybinding to jump to next/prev tag?

2009-04-16 Thread Preben Randhol
This might be what your looking for, currently it's setup to use Mod + arrow left and right. Not sure if this is the best way to do it but it worked for a friend who was looking for it's behavior. http://bsdgroup.org/files/dwm-5.4-arrownav.diff Brilliant. I just put the functions in a

Re: [SOLVED] [dwm] Gvim size problem

2009-04-16 Thread Preben Randhol
Similar experience in the past but seem fixed now. I guess it should be a gvim problem. You may test by comparing with other gtk based text editors such as geany or gedit. It should be `lines' not set correctly. try :set lines? for gvim, lines depends on both gfn and window height. I

Re: [SOLVED] [dwm] Gvim size problem

2009-04-17 Thread Preben Randhol
Here it is. Gvim is on the left -- there is huge vertical stripe on the right part of it. When I do float-unfloat gvim takes whole area and works well after that. I use 50:50 split. What happens if you run: gvim -U NONE -u NONE This starts gvim without loading any setup you have. It is not

[dwm] Font recomendation to get unicode in statusbar?

2009-04-17 Thread Preben Randhol
I'm currently using the terminus font, but it doesn't seem to work with unicode. Is there another font you would recommend that works with unicode? Thanks in advance Preben

Re: [SOLVED] [dwm] Gvim size problem

2009-04-17 Thread Preben Randhol
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:25:46 +0800 bill lam cbill@gmail.com wrote: You may try adding set lines=200 columns=200 after the line that set gfn. It doesn't matter these values are larger than your screem since it will resize itself to the maximum allowable lines and columns. No, they

Re: [SOLVED] [dwm] Gvim size problem

2009-04-17 Thread Preben Randhol
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:12:15 -0700 Amit Uttamchandani atu13...@csun.edu wrote: When opening a new tab the command input disappears, setting ghr=5 fixes it in my set up. Yes, you are right. I don't use tabs though, so didn't think of testing that :-). However, I see that when the interface

Re: [dwm] Font recomendation to get unicode in statusbar?

2009-04-17 Thread Preben Randhol
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:33:53 +0200 Szabolcs Nagy nszabo...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/17/09, Preben Randhol rand...@pvv.org wrote: Is there another font you would recommend that works with unicode? fixed font more details: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html Problem

Re: [dwm] Font recomendation to get unicode in statusbar?

2009-04-17 Thread Preben Randhol
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:47:27 +0800 Haomin Wen wen1...@gmail.com wrote: I manage to use wenquanyi bitmap song to display Chinese characters on the dwm bar in Arch linux, but there is always something wrong on Ubuntu. Now I give up. I begin to use Xft. You can use Xft. There are several

Re: [dwm] Font recomendation to get unicode in statusbar?

2009-04-18 Thread Preben Randhol
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 06:41:40 -0400 Ian Daniher it.dani...@gmail.com wrote: The Fixed font is superb. For unicode I've had great luck with -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-* which has flawless greek support as well as support for a variety of arrows, miscellaneous and

Re: [dwm] OT: Wireless in dwm

2009-04-21 Thread Preben Randhol
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:47:25 -0500 Kurt H Maier karmaf...@gmail.com wrote: I wrote a script[1] that uses dmenu to present local wifi networks, and ask for a wep key. Shouldn't be too hard to extend to wpa etc. 1 - http://madleet.net/wifiselect.sh.html Thanks to all. Really helped me to

[dwm] tag rule for vlc?

2009-04-23 Thread Preben Randhol
Hi I'm trying to move vlc to tag 5. The problem is that I don't seem to manage to catch vlc in any way. I use the cvlc. I have tried vlc, NULL, NULL, 1 4, False. I have tired all variant of uppercase and lowercase. xwininfo reports VLC (XVideo output). I have tried this both for class and for

Re: [dwm] tag rule for vlc?

2009-04-23 Thread Preben Randhol
Hi Preben, Try this one for sending it to tag 6, for example: { NULL, NULL, VLC media player, 1 5, False }, Normally you can see the WM_CLASS or WM_NAME properties with the xprop command (by running it and clicking in the desired

Re: [dwm] dwm's future

2009-04-27 Thread Preben Randhol
On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:23:50 +0100 Anselm R Garbe garb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, I discussed several stuff on IRC recently but wanted to share my thoughts here. 1. One idea is getting rid of the dwm bar altogether and to print the dwm state to stdout when it changes, however after

Re: [dwm] [idea] mwm - minimal/minimun/monocle window manager

2009-04-27 Thread Preben Randhol
On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:44:18 -0300 Leandro Chescotta leandro.chesco...@gmail.com wrote: Well, someone start this earlier, *Wra!thhttp://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=24472in archlinux forums * here http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=70902 hope the best to this project! :)

Re: [dwm] [idea] mwm - minimal/minimun/monocle window manager

2009-04-27 Thread Preben Randhol
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:11:50 +0200 Szabolcs Nagy nszabo...@gmail.com wrote: why would one post an url to a web shop when the book itself has more informative resource locators: an official website, publisher, author names, isbn number, common abbrev, wikipedia entry, google.. ? Because you

Re: [dwm] dwm's future

2009-04-27 Thread Preben Randhol
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:10:47 +0100 Anselm R Garbe garb...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/4/27 Preben Randhol rand...@pvv.org: What about xft? Wasn't there a patch for 4.7 (can't find it anymore). I don't know much about the font systems. One option, though quite half hearted in my opinion. I

Re: [dwm] dwm's future

2009-04-27 Thread Preben Randhol
On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:11:03 +0100 Anselm R Garbe garb...@gmail.com wrote: So there are only three ways: - stick with what we got (don't care if some langs look ugly) - use pango and/or cairo or something like that - invest some effort into a new font rendering lib (seems to be a hard job,

Re: [dwm] dwm's future

2009-04-27 Thread Preben Randhol
On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:49:55 -0500 Kurt H Maier karmaf...@gmail.com wrote: I keep hoping to see dwm go into a 'steady state' where the only patches are to maintain compatibility with latest x.org, etc., but instead every time it seems 'done' we shoot forward into crazy-ass ideas like

Re: [dwm] dwm's future

2009-04-27 Thread Preben Randhol
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:51:24 +0200 Martin Oppegaard mar...@deathaven.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:47:19AM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: Personally I would like to have one dwm as is, and one gdwm (or some better name) with more bells and whistles and dependencies. http

Re: [dwm] [idea] mwm - minimal/minimun/monocle window manager

2009-04-27 Thread Preben Randhol
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:12:12 +0200 hiro 23h...@googlemail.com wrote: Forums are a disease, but they are successful, because people are always glad about the neat, animated smiley's, there are proudly occupied moderators, and a lot of cool features for the administrator to play with. Mathml

Re: [dwm] dwm's future

2009-04-27 Thread Preben Randhol
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:54:35 +0200 markus schnalke mei...@marmaro.de wrote: Important is IMO to define a clear goal and to follow a straight path to this goal. This is not only for the competition with other WMs but also for keeping the software clear. Yes, I wanted at one point to try out

Re: [dwm] dwm's future

2009-04-28 Thread Preben Randhol
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:01:20 -0400 Ross Mohn rpm...@waxandwane.org wrote: Or maybe they're getting a kick back? -RPM Bullshit! Such slander doe not serve Open Source! The reason for choosing commercial packages is because they have done the job. It is fine to choose an open source alternative,

Re: [dwm] dwm's future

2009-04-28 Thread Preben Randhol
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:00:07 +0200 Preben Randhol rand...@pvv.org wrote: That said, in most cases there is now no reason no to choose Matlab over Octave. EDIT That said, in most cases there is now no reason to choose Matlab over Octave. /EDIT

Re: [dwm] dwm's future

2009-04-29 Thread Preben Randhol
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:41:48 +0200 Martin Oppegaard mar...@deathaven.com wrote: Are there any BSD-style licensed equivalents? Why do you need that? You could also have a look at: http://www.sagemath.org/index.html -- Preben

Re: [dwm] dwm's future

2009-04-29 Thread Preben Randhol
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:25:55 +0200 Martin Oppegaard mar...@deathaven.com wrote: I like free software. But not GPL?

Re: [dwm] dwm's future

2009-04-29 Thread Preben Randhol
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:45:35 +0200 Martin Oppegaard mar...@deathaven.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:35:12AM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:25:55 +0200 Martin Oppegaard mar...@deathaven.com wrote: I like free software. But not GPL? It's just another

Re: [dwm] skvm - suckless lightweight volume manager

2009-05-03 Thread Preben Randhol
On Sun, 3 May 2009 12:21:58 -0300 Leandro Chescotta leandro.chesco...@gmail.com wrote: Well, by far im lovin' it, I started the daemon and pluged in a usb drive and i now have the drive mounted in /media with the name gived by /dev/sdX[n] device name, the thing is that i dont know how to

[dwm] Problem with notify-send from acpi events

2009-05-03 Thread Preben Randhol
Hi I have setup my Asus Eee to run commands when I press the function keys (like power up/down etc...) In these scripts I'm running notify-send to get a small window to give a message (like touchpad off etc...). The scripts are run from acpid. For some strange reason when I use dwm, the notify

Re: [dwm] [OT] frequency scaling and power consumption

2009-05-08 Thread Preben Randhol
On Fri, 8 May 2009 16:08:12 +0800 bill lam cbill@gmail.com wrote: BIOS support choosing a smaller multipliers to reduce cpu frequency. linux also supports frequency scaling such powernowd. Some google page said cpu throttling can not reduce power consumption. My experience is that it

Re: [dwm] [OT] frequency scaling and power consumption

2009-05-09 Thread Preben Randhol
, that saves power too. HTH -- Preben Randhol http://wee-free-lore.blogspot.com/

Re: [dwm] [OT] Reputable online computer shops in Germany?

2009-05-09 Thread Preben Randhol
. The 901 is great too, my wife has written two papers on it without a problem, but for me the keyboard is a bit troublesome. What I can say is that dwm is a perfect match for the Eee family! HTH Preben -- Preben Randhol http://wee-free-lore.blogspot.com/

Re: [dwm] [OT] Reputable online computer shops in Germany?

2009-05-10 Thread Preben Randhol
On Sat, 9 May 2009 23:22:38 +0200 Preben Randhol rand...@pvv.org wrote: What I can say is that dwm is a perfect match for the Eee family! Forgot to mention that the mousepad is really nice in the Eees. I don't like mousepads normally, but this I can live with if you don't have space

Re: [dwm] [idea] mwm - minimal/minimun/monocle window manager

2009-05-14 Thread Preben Randhol
for a very minimalistic window manager would be some thing like 2wm. or dwm -- Preben Randhol http://wee-free-lore.blogspot.com/

Re: [dwm] musca wm

2009-05-17 Thread Preben Randhol
Debian to Ubuntu on the 5-6 machines I maintain. And that is something I appreciate, not how small space I can get a distribution to use... Besides, making a big comples software in a low level programming language is not the Thing To Do[tm] unless you plan to write and forget. -- Preben Randhol

Re: [dwm] musca wm

2009-05-17 Thread Preben Randhol
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 12:55:27PM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: As to Ubuntu, you can say what you like, but at least for me the maintenance time reduced dramatically after going from Debian to Ubuntu on the 5-6 machines I maintain. And that is something I appreciate, not how small space I