Not a blog; Windows 7 vs. Ion; displays, laptops, etc.

2010-10-27 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
Since I put up a new site with an archive of my software, a few have asked me to return the non-blog online as well. I don't think that will happen. I can't be arsed to start blogging again; it's a waste of time. I shortly entertained the idea of combining the good/essential material into a longer

Archives

2010-10-10 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
In case someone still cares, an archive of all the code and stuff is online at http://iki.fi/tuomov/software/ .

Re: so, what now?

2010-04-07 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2010-04-06 18:10 -0400, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: Guess I'll go back to lurking. (I'm only still here for the occasional Tuomo rant.) I use Windows. I have only been in Finland three months during the last year. I'm running out of material. (Although I could rant about software bloat and

Re: disabling mouse focus

2010-03-22 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2010-03-19 14:33 +0200, M. Rawash wrote: hi, is there a simple way to disable 'mousefocus' on certain clients (a on-screen keyboard, for example)? There's the 'passive' winprop. There should be examples in the list archives, maybe even something in the scripts repository. -- Tuomo

Re: Moving workspaces

2010-01-20 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2010-01-14 17:35 -0500, Timandahaf wrote: I want to be able to move an entire workspace from one screen to another. I tried (using the context menu), Workspace-Toggle Tag, and then went to a new workspace in the other screen, and did Workspace-Attach Tagged. What did this is: it created

Re: Youtube fullscreen not working

2009-11-27 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-11-27 00:54 -0500, Timandahaf wrote: I tried to do this, but I still have the exact same problem. I see what your kludge is doing, but it doesn't seem to fix the problem. Regardless of whether or not I use your script, when I press the full-screen button inside the youtube player, the

Re: bindings to move mouse cursor?

2009-11-24 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
I think that would be a very useful way to switch to the frame you want, just move the cursor until it's over that frame, should normally only take a couple of keystrokes. If you really want to do that, I suggest a Trackpoint keyboard instead. The difficult a foresee with key(board) control

Re: Lua..

2009-11-18 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-11-17 19:51 -0200, TC wrote: _any_ language he/she's used to, which I find a good basement philosophy if you ask me. Not quite. Such a generic scripting interface inherently has to stick to the lowest common denominator.. and hence it should really not be the main extension/scripting

Re: Lua..

2009-11-18 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-11-18 02:17 -0800, Daniel Clemente wrote: Baawaawaa, it's not written in My Language Of Choice, so it must be rewritten. That describes something like 49% of FOSS projects The other 49% is baawaawaa, it's not Freeⓡ: it doesn't use My License of Choice. … The remaining 2%

Re: Statusbar question

2009-10-31 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-10-30 16:54 -0400, Timandahaf wrote: The problem is, the workspace_pager that's shown on the screen1 is actually a copy of screen0's pager, and is therefore useless. How do I fix this? Check if the script provides %workspace_pager_n (n=0,1) or something like that. If not, then modify

On continuing Ion development [+footnote on fonts on 5800xm]

2009-09-17 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
Since I've been asked a few times whether it's possible for someone to adopt or continue the development of Ion, now that I'm unlikely to work on it, I thought I should post my thoughts here on the list. First of all, as it always has been, it is, of course, possible for people to fork a

Re: The end of the line

2009-09-02 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-09-01, Tuomo Valkonen tuo...@iki.fi wrote: It has come to this. Unless miracles happen, I don't think I will be using or working on Ion much anymore. Cygwin is a big pile of shit [1], with an even bigger pile of filth Yesterday I was angry, today I'm miserable. I'm too much alone

Re: The end of the line

2009-09-01 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-09-01 14:51 +, Kris Malfettone wrote: Vim works fine without cygwin on windows and I am sure emacs or its various derivitives have cygwin-less windows ports as well. I never liked emacs. Joe-bindings are half emacs, half wordstar, but I just can't stand emacs' own bindings, beyond

Re: command line ?

2009-08-28 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-08-28, Ole Jørgen Brønner olejorg...@yahoo.no wrote: No, you're right, they don't. If someone wants to work on this, here's what I after a very quick glance over the code (that it's been ages since I last looked into), think might be the plan: - In input_do_refit, we have to rqgeom

Re: command line ?

2009-08-27 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-08-27, Piter_ x.pi...@gmail.com wrote: There is command line opened by F3 button. I wonder if its possible to move it up from the bottom of the screen. Thanks. Petro No, unless you write the necessary code. -- [Fashion] is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to

Re: close frame when empty

2009-08-14 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-08-14, Javier Rojas jeroja...@devnull.li wrote: I think is possible to avoid such behaviour by checking the tiling (or the ws) to close the frame only when there are more frames in the tiling. But I don't know how to ask Ion about how many frames are in a tiling (or in a workspace).

Re: window titlebar

2009-08-06 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-08-05, Sam Mason ma...@f2s.com wrote: That's what you get for not using a proper operating system! :) Yes, on a proper operating system (instead of a half of one running on another proper one), I'd be stuck to the 80x25 VGA console. Random Cygwin brokenness (1.7 betas) is just the

Re: window titlebar

2009-08-06 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
also WGroup.attach docs.) Fri Oct 24 20:25:20 FLE Daylight Time 2008 Tuomo Valkonen tuo...@iki.fi * * Added attach_params winprop and auto_placement option. The first, attach_params, is a table containing the same parameters that can be passed to WGroup.attach. It is applied when a new

Re: Compilation pb on FreeBSD.

2009-07-25 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-07-23, Albert Shih albert.s...@obspm.fr wrote: After I press F12 I've got Main menu -- session/sortir (I using French) and I've a No entry for 'session/sortir' Does it show up in tab-completion? Could there be some accent issue? Are the locales correct in that

Re: Ion wiki?

2009-06-10 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-06-09, Ole Jørgen Brønner olejorg...@yahoo.no wrote: I have very limited experience with web services and hosting, but I've set up a temporary dokuwiki [1] at http://folk.ntnu.no/bronner/ion3wiki (Temporary as in I don't really have a proper host. Maybe someone else has?) Maybe you

Re: Winsplit-revolution - window manager for MS-WindowsXP etc.

2009-06-05 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-06-05, Timandahaf timandahaf+...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone seen/heard of this? http://winsplit-revolution.com/ I find that tiling w/o tabbing is rather useless. And it's the tabbing part that takes extra effort to implement under Windows. Under X, the WM can -- still as of June 2009

Re: confirm 852223f5c787b0857a42616c26c0a94208eae60a

2009-06-02 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-05-30, Ole Jørgen Brønner olejorg...@yahoo.no wrote: I'm not sure how you can easily force the number to be exacly 10, but ion3 will remember your layout, so if you create 10 workspaces manually they should still be there after a restart. If you restart/quit properly, i.e., though

Re: RPM spec file for ion3 for Fedora

2009-05-27 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-05-27, Timandahaf timandahaf+...@gmail.com wrote: Any chance you'd be willing to host this RPM .spec file anywhere in your darcs repo? It'd be very helpful to users who have an rpm based system. I have no public repositories that I could update. And anything that requires additional

Patch collection

2009-05-26 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
Some of the latest changes to Ion, including the scripts repository, can be downloaded from http://iki.fi/tuomov/ion/patches.html pending my VCS switch eternity project. (All version control systems suck. Only darcs developers have devoted more than two brain cells to the UI. But GHC sucks

Re: Patch collection

2009-05-26 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-05-26, Ciprian Dorin, Craciun ciprian.crac...@gmail.com wrote: But I wonder: you like darcs (or at least compared with others), and you have searched for other distributed VCS's but all of them suck, what is wrong about (for example) Hg or Git? I mean what are your thoughts about

Re: Patch collection

2009-05-26 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-05-26, Tuomo Valkonen tuo...@iki.fi wrote: Time zones are printed in a non-standard format that other programs (such as thost that convert to other VCSs) fail to parse: 'W. Europe Standard Time' instead of WEDT. Um... WEST, of course. (Idiotic DST kludge. Just looked up the current

Re: Keypresses when closing the mod_sp window?

2009-05-18 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-05-15, Thomas Themel i...@themel.com wrote: When closing the mod_sp window, it seems that the window that is underneath also gets the keypress (in my default case, META..space) that I use to close the window. Is this a bug? It will get the release event, not the press (unless the key

Re: VirtualBox seamless mode

2009-04-10 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-04-09, Vladimir Skuratovich skuratov...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is it possible to set up the VirtualBox 'seamless mode', where it is supposed to integrate with the window manager, so that the guest windows are managed by Ion? Does it create managed windows or just override-redirects?

Re: X is dead. Long live windows.

2009-04-10 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-04-10, Tuomo Valkonen tuo...@iki.fi wrote: DOS as a simple and manageable system was the high point of computing. XP was a local maximum: the last OS with good fonts, and not even nearly as bad as W95, around the release of which I switched from DOS to what can now clearly be seen

Re: Attach client to several workspaces

2009-04-10 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-04-07, Matthieu Moy matthieu@imag.fr wrote: What you can do (and what wmii, awesome and other do) is that the resize the window on-the-fly when the workspace changes. Then the application redraws the frame at the new place, with its new size. You can manually emulate this by

Re: VirtualBox seamless mode

2009-04-10 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-04-10, Klaus Umbach treibholz-...@sozial-inkompetent.de wrote: Just use VirtualBox in standard-fullscreen-mode on a separate Workspace. That's the most acceptable pain. No, that's Ion-in-cygwin-X-on-windows, after changing Mod1+Tab to Mod1+Q in Ion. Integrates much better than a fully

Re: cannot type in run dialog

2009-04-09 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-04-08, Deepanjan Kesh deepk...@gmail.com wrote: i have installed ion3 in ubuntu 8.10. but i am not able to type in the run dialog though tab completion works. any help would be really appreciated Fix your locales settings. You need the .encoding (e.g. fi_FI.UTF-8) part in LC_CTYPE (or

X is dead. Long live windows.

2009-04-09 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
The X we all knew is dying, and it's being killed by its developers. As their latest onslaught, the Xorg dickheads have removed SaveUnders from X. Expect flicker when dragging tabs or moving windows under Ion and a new and rusy X. They want you to implement and use a heavy memory, cpu, and

Re: Attach client to several workspaces

2009-04-07 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-04-06, Oskar Nordquist oskar.nordqu...@gmail.com wrote: I'm wondering how hard it would be to implement support for having clients visible in more than one workspace, e.g it could work like the tagging feature for moving windows, only clients could be attached to several frames and/or

Re: Attach client to several workspaces

2009-04-07 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-04-07, Oskar Nordquist oskar.nordqu...@gmail.com wrote: Would it not be easier to just duplicate the client to refer to the same X window? I don't even know if that is possible, but if it is, that's how I'd prefer to do it. Ummm... I don't know what you really mean. The client always

Re: Ikiwiki replacement etc.

2009-03-31 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
Ok, the site should be back in updatable condition, using webgen after all. Let me know if something is broken. Next up: VCS switch. (Suggestions about what to do about the site, the scripts repository, and other repositories are still welcome.) -- Tuomo

Re: Abandoning darcs

2009-03-31 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-03-31, Yves Rutschle i...@rutschle.net wrote: Yeah, the biggest problem is Windows users naming directories like Program Files, Last year's review, Deliveries for this and that, which means the 255 limitation actually comes up quickly. Then try to convince them to use short names and

Re: Abandoning darcs

2009-03-31 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-03-31, Adam Duck adam.ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, it is possible to _create_ such file names, but you can't use them. Here at WinXP I can create (best under Desktop) dirs close to 255 chars. Actually, I've been succesfully using file names with colons in them in Linux on NTFS

Re: Abandoning darcs

2009-03-31 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-03-31, Daniel Clemente dcl441-b...@yahoo.com wrote: Yes, I also hate it, but I have learnt to ignore it with version control. Or better, I use it to store trash. And if I want a directory that I control myself, I create one, it's not so complex. But it's not ~, it's ~/my or

Re: Abandoning darcs

2009-03-29 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-03-28, Klaus Umbach treibholz-...@sozial-inkompetent.de wrote: Ah, OK. So it's a driver and a service. Anyway, it was pretty stable. Maybe I'll try it one day. No time now. Yes, but I can use both my cores and don't have to reserve one for my virus-scanner. From my point of view,

Re: Abandoning darcs

2009-03-27 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-03-27, Nicolas Schier sch...@shf.de wrote: have you already decided which SCM you want to switch to? I have noticed you took a look at mercurial... I for myself am very content with it, but I know that your requirements have mostly a little higher level. Probably Mercurial. I've been

Re: Abandoning darcs

2009-03-27 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-03-27, Sylvain Abélard sylvain.abel...@gmail.com wrote: If only Apple wasn't so blur-fascist, and had 4:3 laptops with a nipple... And non-glossy screens for all configurations, not just for 2000€ ones. Well, yes, but the situation is almost the same on PCs: all the affordable

Re: Abandoning darcs

2009-03-27 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-03-27 08:19 +, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: On 2009-03-27, Nicolas Schier sch...@shf.de wrote: have you already decided which SCM you want to switch to? I have noticed you took a look at mercurial... I for myself am very content with it, but I know that your requirements have mostly

Re: Abandoning darcs

2009-03-26 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-03-13 12:09 +, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: The Ion darcs repositories have been taken offline, and I will switch away from darcs. Reason: no version for the most viable *nix platform of the day, Cygwin. The website will be upgraded when I manage to replace Ikiwiki, which also does

Re: Abandoning darcs

2009-03-26 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-03-26, Tuomo Valkonen tuo...@iki.fi wrote: This is going to take some time. I, of course, can't even use the usual tools to convert from darcs to another format, because the non-deterministic windows-cygwin hybrid darcs does not even print dates etc. in a standard format, so parsers

Ikiwiki replacement etc.

2009-03-16 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
I will have to replace Ikiwiki as the Ion site generator, since it fails to work under Cygwin. (Excessive and ugly mangling of all input into UTF-8 breaks down in the 2007 snapshot I'd been using. *sigh*. The compiler doesn't need to know the encoding used; only the web frontend does. Newer

Re: Ikiwiki replacement etc.

2009-03-16 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-03-16, Evgeny Kurbatov evgenykurba...@yandex.ru wrote: Try AsciiDOC. It has not any web engine just text-to-html converter. I'm not looking for a markup language -- I'm sticking to markdown. I'm looking for a web engine. -- [Fashion] is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that

Re: Ikiwiki replacement etc.

2009-03-16 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-03-16, Evgeny Kurbatov evgenykurba...@yandex.ru wrote: Which means web engine? I meant no web engine -- no cgi, no web forms, no page editor thru web forms, just kosher html. You can manage your pages with ftp. Let the web server be engine. No, I'm not looking for dynamic content.

Abandoning darcs

2009-03-13 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
The Ion darcs repositories have been taken offline, and I will switch away from darcs. Reason: no version for the most viable *nix platform of the day, Cygwin. The website will be upgraded when I manage to replace Ikiwiki, which also does not work under Cygwin. -- In 1995, Linux was almost a

Re: Scratchpad stuck in max size mode

2009-03-12 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-03-12, Per Johannes Schöön j.sch...@kabelmail.de wrote: I have been struck by a very curious problem. The scratchpad, from one day to the next, decided it wanted to be, and remain, as large as my screen. Have you upgraded recently? It may have wrong size policies etc. in that case. I

Re: [Slightly-OT] On usability: managing usb devices network profiles in a ion3 environment

2009-03-09 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-03-07, Mico Filós elmico.fi...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you all for your feedback. I will play with the scripts a little... While you're at it, write ion-power-manager. Something simple and reliable to replace the awful bloated and complicated gnome and kde crap. No fucking HAL crap;

Re: [Slightly-OT] On usability: managing usb devices network profiles in a ion3 environment

2009-03-03 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-03-03, Vladimir Skuratovich skuratov...@gmail.com wrote: With network profiles you actually have a lot of options, starting from ifupdown scripts in Debian, where you can specify a profile manually, through 'divine', a nice small program that is able to send ARP requests to specified

Re: [Slightly-OT] On usability: managing usb devices network profiles in a ion3 environment

2009-03-03 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -- Oscar Wilde The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. -- RMS #!/usr/local/bin/lua -- -- Copyright (c) Tuomo Valkonen 2008. -- require('lfs') require('posix') local function

Re: Keyboard focus lost in Swing applications (ex: Netbeans) after changing to window

2009-02-10 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-02-09, Daniel Clemente dcl441-b...@yahoo.com wrote: Well, it improved lots of things. It works perfectly with gtk, qt, tk, keyboard, mouse, … The example code now works when I use Java 1.6.0_12-b04. But if I compile and run it with the unreleased 1.7.0-ea-b43, the focus is

Re: signal 11 from X 1.4.2 with nvidia driver

2009-02-10 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-02-09, Antonio De Leon aldle...@gmail.com wrote: it only happens when using ion3 from 200808 onwards. xfce and others work normally. Sounds like an Xorg bug. -- Stop Gnomes and other pests! Purchase Windows today!

Re: Keyboard focus lost in Swing applications (ex: Netbeans) after changing to window

2009-02-08 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-02-08 21:52 +0100, Daniel Clemente wrote: Hi; thanks for the helpful explanations. I tried doing that change and it stayed the same. I also tried doing a sleep(2) before sending the WM_TAKE_FOCUS (with the +2s timestamp), but without success. What did work is this: Try

Re: Multi-, different- monitors is multi-hopeless?

2009-01-18 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-01-18, ebik e...@drak.ucw.cz wrote: I don't use mod_xrandr, for me it is useless since it doesn't support xrandr 1.2. Xrandr 1.2 itself is useless shit-o-rama shit. *nix is dead. -- In 1995, Linux was almost a bicycle; an alternative way of live to the Windows petrol beasts that had

Re: Multi-, different- monitors is multi-hopeless?

2009-01-18 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-01-18, ebik e...@drak.ucw.cz wrote: There is currently no option to multiple screens than xrandr today. Yes there is: it's called plain-old-X-multihead, or _the clean solution_ that doesn't smell of a rotten kludge to the other side of the globe. *Eugh*, adding more screens by

Re: [SEMI-OT] Applications in a typical ion3 desktop environment

2009-01-17 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-01-17 11:47 +0100, Sylvain Abélard wrote: (The Modern Web counts as sheer lunacy. In a few years, given the trend, it will require triple-widescreen configurations for all the advertisements and other crap, yet still have a single 5cm text column in the middle.) The Web will

Re: Keyboard focus lost in Swing applications (ex: Netbeans) after changing to window

2009-01-16 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-01-16, Daniel Clemente dcl441-b...@yahoo.com wrote: I was using Ubuntu GNU/Linux 8.04.1 with these packages: ii sun-java6-bin 6-06-0ubuntu1 Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (architecture dependent fil Etch, sun-java5-bin. Also, just now whatever

Re: [SEMI-OT] Applications in a typical ion3 desktop environment

2009-01-16 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-01-16, Philip Snowberger psnow...@nd.edu wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Tuomo Valkonen tuo...@iki.fi wrote: bought almost an identical x61s about 18 months previous. That said, it's kinda sad that the only reason it could be considered 'affordable' is that Lenovo was blowing

Re: Keyboard focus lost in Swing applications (ex: Netbeans) after changing to window

2009-01-15 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-01-15, Daniel Clemente dcl441-b...@yahoo.com wrote: In fact any Swing application has this problem. You can use this one to test: CBA going through all the trouble of installing java compilers and whatever dependencies there may be. Java on Linux is pain; already been too much trouble

Re: [SEMI-OT] Applications in a typical ion3 desktop environment

2009-01-12 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
other stuff latex, rubber, ... dramatic pause ... bibtex, metapost, xdvi, xpdf, gv, psbind -3 [*], dvipdfm. And should we start listing latex packages too? Seriously though, this listing of all the software one uses and that is far removed from setting up a consistent ionic operating

Re: [SEMI-OT] Applications in a typical ion3 desktop environment

2009-01-11 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-01-11, Sylvain Abélard sylvain.abel...@gmail.com wrote: I also heard you can find companies that replace MacBooks screens with matte ones for $100. FYI, the matte screen option is $100, only available on the biggest $2500 Mac. Yeah, they only seem to sell matte displays on

ion-3-20090110

2009-01-09 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
This is yet another maintenance release. -- In 1995, Linux was almost a bicycle; an alternative way of live to the Windows petrol beasts that had to be taken to the dealer for service. By 2008, Linux has bloated into a gas-guzzler, and local vendors and artisans have had to yield to all under

Re: path, alias with F3

2009-01-07 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-01-07, ebik e...@drak.ucw.cz wrote: Which scripts? If you set environment variable PATH for ion to contain ~/bin, it will search executables there also. Ion also has its own search path for its scripts. You can set it from the command line, or modifying the searchpath field of

Re: Toggle horizontal/vertical maximize behaviour

2009-01-07 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-01-05, Chris Burkhardt ch...@mretc.net wrote: Ah, I see. But what I think is still a bug is that after performing a 'Mod1-K V' in the other top frame (as in step 5 in my example), then the originally maximized frame forgets its original height. 'Mod1-TAB'ing to it and trying to

Re: Toggle horizontal/vertical maximize behaviour

2009-01-05 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-01-02, Chris Burkhardt ch...@mretc.net wrote: 4) Again in the top frame do a 'Mod1-K S' to do a horizontal split. 5) In one of the top frames do a 'Mod1-K V' to collapse the bottom frame. Then 'Mod1-TAB' to the other top frame and 'Mod1-K V'... the bottom frame unexpectedly stays at 0!

Re: xkbion.lua

2008-12-30 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2008-12-19, Anton Yuzhaninov cit...@citrin.ru wrote: xkbion.lua from ion scripts collection works for me only with this patch: Please submit the fixes to the repository. -- In 1995, Linux was almost a bicycle; an alternative way of live to the Windows petrol beasts that had to be taken to

Re: ion scripts location

2008-12-19 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2008-12-19, Anton Yuzhaninov cit...@citrin.ru wrote: darcs get http://iki.fi/tuomov/repos/ion-scripts-3/ Works for me. However, http://modeemi.fi/~tuomov/repos/ion-scripts-3/ may be faster; at least darcs1 used to handle redirects stupidly. -- Be an early adopter! Beat the herd! Choose

Re: Toggle horizontal/vertical maximize behaviour

2008-12-15 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2008-12-15, Ilya Schurov ilya.schu...@noo.ru wrote: resize commands. (E.g. I see only tab heading, but if I switch to that heading and try to do ALT+K-V or even ALT+R-N, there's no reaction.) The only way to unshrink it is to resize main frame. Is it a bug or a feature? :) For some

Re: Tab width in 'shaped' bar style

2008-11-30 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2008-11-29, Oskar Nordquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, the tab width depends on the maximum tab width in their containing frame. Is there any way for the individual tabs to only stretch as far as their own title width? Other than touching the code for a custom hack? No. Tabs have

Re: statusd_mpd-socket.lua

2008-11-19 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2008-11-19, Marc Hartstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A drop-in replacement for statusd_mpd.lua which uses sockets instead of popen to communicate with mpd. Suggest renaming to replace the other script. I suggest sending it to the scripts repository for easy availability. Also, on a cursory

Re: Can't type queries

2008-11-16 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2008-11-16, sughosh ganu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem was that ion did not recognize the locale on my system (en_IN). Changing it to en_US.UTF-8 solved the problem. Thanks for the help. It's not Ion. It's Xlib. en_IN.UTF-8 should work, if it's been compiled. -- Be an early

Re: Can't type queries

2008-11-16 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2008-11-16, Tuomo Valkonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-11-16, sughosh ganu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem was that ion did not recognize the locale on my system (en_IN). Changing it to en_US.UTF-8 solved the problem. Thanks for the help. It's not Ion. It's Xlib. en_IN.UTF-8

Re: two quick misc. questions - labeling workspace and changing title bar height...

2008-11-15 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2008-11-14, Juri Mianovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did this, and the workspace still has: xterm5 in the title. It's not workspace title. It's the window title. Workspace titles aren't shown. -- Be an early adopter! Beat the herd! Choose Windows today!

Re: Can't type queries

2008-11-15 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2008-11-15, Tuomo Valkonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-11-14, sughosh ganu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So pressing F3 prompts for a command, but typing does not produce any string. Same is the case with other keys like F4 and F5. IIRC it's a locale setup fuckup. You have to have

Re: Ion rewriting

2008-11-13 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2008-11-13, Roy Lanek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: etc. A bit like with ice hockey, which maybe (Finland) you know better than scuba diving. I don't. That approach doesn't scale to big projects Well, I have not proposed to rewrite Linux or PostgreSQL in Haskell yet ... Even Ion is far too

Re: Ion rewriting

2008-11-13 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2008-11-13, Roy Lanek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which The Zone?! ... The Zone, the flow, super-concentration/immersion on/in a problem. -- [Fashion] is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -- Oscar Wilde The computer industry is the only

Re: two quick misc. questions - labeling workspace and changing title bar height...

2008-11-13 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2008-11-13, Juri Mianovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, When I create a workspace, it is named: empty frame That's not the workspace name; it's just indicator of an empty frame. my favorite xterms (or whatever) and have that name/title stick ? Mod1+M workspace/rename Second, I'd

Re: quickly cloning an existing statusbar script (date)?

2008-11-13 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2008-11-13, Juri Mianovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If that is correct, would you tell me what/where the monitor is ? Where ever you found the following line: statusd.inform('date', os.date(settings.date_format, tm)) to this: statusd.inform('date -v +7H', os.date(settings.date_format,

Re: Ion rewriting

2008-11-12 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2008-11-13, Philip Snowberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:53 AM, Tuomo Valkonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-11-10, Tuomo Valkonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And Haskell just sucks for the moderately object-oriented approach that is obvious for certain things

Re: Ion rewriting

2008-11-11 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2008-11-10, Tuomo Valkonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And Haskell just sucks for the moderately object-oriented approach that is obvious for certain things. OTOH, Haskell and Parsec [1] are simply wonderful for writing parsers. In fact, I use Haskell in the build process of Ion for parsing

Re: Ion rewriting

2008-11-10 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2008-11-10, Roy Lanek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Haskell language-of-the-day ... why?, Umm... increasing popularity? Oh dear, hello Moses- (the illiterate who brought back the astonishing writings) alike, or Muhammad- (ditto [illiterate]) alike. And who did write your frameworks ages ago?

Re: Ion rewriting

2008-11-10 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2008-11-10, Roy Lanek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: instead of their heads.) In the hands of a great programmer (like James Clark), it's astounding what can be done in a few lines of Haskel, and it's interesting to compare the amount of Java code it takes the same programmer to

Re: Ion rewriting

2008-11-10 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2008-11-10, Leslie P. Polzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ever tried Common Lisp? I'm not a fan of Lisp syntax. -- [Fashion] is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -- Oscar Wilde The computer industry is the only industry that is more

Re: Ion rewriting

2008-11-10 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2008-11-10, Roy Lanek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What--and I am serious--about rewriting Ion in ... Haskell? Rewrites in The Language of the Day are lame (see also the .signature), for people with a lot of time in their hands and no original ideas. Why so?!, because Ion is

Re: Ion rewriting

2008-11-10 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2008-11-10, Christian Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll never forget one of my teachers telling me that I used java to store my functions. I'm still not sure that I understand what he meant. ;-) One example of Pure Uglyness in programming languages are the OO first class function hacks.

Re: Disable automatic saving of workspace (frame layout)

2008-11-06 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2008-11-06, Sylvain Abélard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I save workspace and frame layout? Ion does it automatically for you when you exit it cleanly. Can ion be configured not to do this? A long time ago, my hack was to remove the write rights to the saved-layout file. If there

Re: Disable automatic saving of workspace (frame layout)

2008-11-06 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2008-11-06, Daniel Clemente [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The restart will save the session unless the source code is modified. Or maybe it can be overriden in Lua? No. And it doesn't make much sense to override; saving is needed for sane restart behaviour that will place the windows where

Re: Disable automatic saving of workspace (frame layout)

2008-11-06 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2008-11-06, Tuomo Valkonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If one wants a static setup, it's perhaps best to just clean up files in .xsession. Perhaps this needs a clarification: you can put a saved_layout.lua in ~/.ion3/. If one doesn't exist in the session directory (which one can explicitly

Re: Moving tabbar to bottom of the screen

2008-10-31 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2008-10-31, Eider Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way for me to place the tab below the frame, instead of on top of it? Other than writing a patch, no. It shouldn't be too difficult. There's already the 'bar' parameter of frame styles, that supports the modes inside, outside,

Re: OpenOffice focus

2008-10-13 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2008-10-13, John Harrigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Both Acrobat and OpenOffice open in the 'Aux' frame as desired, but starting OpenOffice moves focus to the 'Aux' frame. Acrobat does not change the focus. Changing switchto from true to false doesn't seem to change this behavior. It is

Re: maximizing

2008-10-08 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2008-10-08, panman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been trying to figure out where the problem is with maximizing any of the flash video players out there, google, youtube, etc to the frame they're in. They all try and then return to the normal embedded player mode. Does anyone have any

Re: maximizing

2008-10-08 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2008-10-08, Sylvain Abélard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Flash in particular doesn't think it should be in FS mode if it doesn't have the focus. Flash has many defects, but is this one so bad ? It is. Most importantly, there's a race condition: if the flash window doesn't get the focus fast

Re: pidgin add a buddy transient not moveable

2008-10-07 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2008-10-07, A K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have my pidgin (.im) buddy list nice and narrow on the right of my screen. When someone wants to add themselves as a buddy of mine a transient window pops up but half of it is hidden and when I move the buddy list to another (bigger) frame the

Re: Move frames to and from scratchpad

2008-10-06 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2008-10-05, Daniel Clemente [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been using the function you sent and it works very well; thanks. With Tuomo's improvements, I think it would be very helpful for the scratchpad feature of Ion. Could it be included? Just send it to the scripts repo. -- Be

Re: unfocused floating windows

2008-10-05 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2008-10-05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My question is, is it possible to force a window not to have focus even if the pointer is on it (something similar to what happens to the rest of the windows when the scratchpad is visible)? ioncore.set{mousefocus='disabled'} will

ion-3-20081002

2008-10-02 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
Some minor fixes again, including a few that should've already been in the previous release. -- Be an early adopter! Beat the herd! Choose Windows today!

Re: Move frames to and from scratchpad

2008-09-25 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2008-09-25, Canaan Hadley-Voth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After trying several combinations, I found one that correctly brings a frame from scratchpad to the background frame: In Lua console: _:screen_of():mx_current():current():current():attach(_sub) In a key binding:

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