Re: [dev] wmii and floating controls

2009-11-19 Thread Kris Maglione
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 01:08:13AM -0500, Nick Guenther wrote: Actually $ wmii -v wmii-3.6, ��2007 Kris Maglione I thought I was on 3.5 because it installs the files /usr/local/share/examples/wmii-3.5/rc.wmii /usr/local/share/examples/wmii-3.5/welcome /usr/local/share/examples/wmii-3.5/wmiirc I

Re: [dev] wmii and floating controls

2009-11-19 Thread Nick Guenther
Thanks for the quick response! Inline... On 11/19/09, Kris Maglione wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:25:40PM -0500, Nick Guenther wrote: > > > I'm using wmii3.5 on OpenBSD and no matter how hard I look I can't > > find a way to control if a window is floating or not. > > > > Please, for the l

Re: [dev] wmii and floating controls

2009-11-19 Thread Kris Maglione
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:25:40PM -0500, Nick Guenther wrote: I'm using wmii3.5 on OpenBSD and no matter how hard I look I can't find a way to control if a window is floating or not. Please, for the love of god (ken), don't use wmii 3.5. It's 4 years old already and probably shouldn't have ev

[dev] wmii and floating controls

2009-11-19 Thread Nick Guenther
I'm using wmii3.5 on OpenBSD and no matter how hard I look I can't find a way to control if a window is floating or not. I can do this fine: $ wmiir xwrite /client/sel/ctl Fullscreen on $ wmiir xwrite /client/sel/ctl Fullscreen off But: $ wmiir xwrite /client/sel/ctl Floating off wmiir: fatal: ca

Re: [dev] wmii9menu shows "foo" at top left

2009-11-19 Thread Kris Maglione
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:29:55PM -0800, Suraj Kurapati wrote: I see a gray "foo" string inside the first item in wmii9menu, using: % wmii -v wmii-hg2592, ©2009 Kris Maglione % wmii9menu -v @(#) wmii9menu version 1.8 Works for me. Also, `hg grep -r tip foo` doesn't show any results. -- Kr

[dev] a suckless computer algebra system

2009-11-19 Thread Alex Ghitza
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 07:51:31PM -0500, Kris Maglione wrote: > Don't be silly. There's nothing like a "suckless" CAS, at least > nothing remotely approaching the simplicity of suckless.org > software. Computer algebra and calculus are complex and > computationally intensive. They can't (and argua

Re: [dev] [wmii] Odd key behaviour after changing focus in 3.9b1

2009-11-19 Thread Kris Maglione
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 02:06:19AM +, Martin Swift wrote: Dear Comrads, First off, many thanks for 3.9b1. Being the fairly content (read: lazy) type I'd never bothered updating from 3.6r2 which is still the most recent packaged version in Gentoo's Portage. That's surprising. I've always ex

Re: [dev] a suckless computer algebra system

2009-11-19 Thread Kris Maglione
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 02:23:35PM -0600, A.J. Gardner wrote: I'm interested in math and CASs, but my opinions on available software are ill-formed and mostly ignorant. Does anyone else here have an interest in this topic, broadly speaking? If so, do you have any preferences for one package over

Re: [dev] [wmii] Mounting wmii with 9mount, crash with ed

2009-11-19 Thread Kris Maglione
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 08:28:52PM -0200, Maurí­cio CA wrote: Hi, I got this problem after mounting wmii tree with 9mount and unix socket. I can 'echo' to 'keys' file, but if I edit it with 'ed' or 'gedit' wmii dies. (I don't know enough to say if wmii dies, X dies or mount kills everything, so

Re: [dev] a suckless computer algebra system

2009-11-19 Thread Ammar James
Check out R and PDL (if you know perl).

Re: [dev] a suckless computer algebra system

2009-11-19 Thread Joseph Xu
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 02:23:35PM -0600, A.J. Gardner wrote: > I'm interested in math and CASs, but my opinions on available software > are ill-formed and mostly ignorant. Does anyone else here have an > interest in this topic, broadly speaking? If so, do you have any > preferences for one package

[dev] a suckless computer algebra system

2009-11-19 Thread A.J. Gardner
I'm interested in math and CASs, but my opinions on available software are ill-formed and mostly ignorant. Does anyone else here have an interest in this topic, broadly speaking? If so, do you have any preferences for one package over another? Have you found any math software that seem to follow th

Re: [dev] [surf] editing textboxes with external command

2009-11-19 Thread markus schnalke
[2009-11-19 18:57] Moritz Wilhelmy > > [...] editing text boxes within an external editor. You took the words right out of my mouth. meillo

Re: [dev] [surf] editing textboxes with external command

2009-11-19 Thread Peter John Hartman
I second this motion! Elinks allows you to launch an external editor too, which is very convenient. I haven't seen a patch though. Peter On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Moritz Wilhelmy wrote: Hi there, vimperator includes a keybinding for editing text boxes within an external editor. Since I really d

[dev] [surf] editing textboxes with external command

2009-11-19 Thread Moritz Wilhelmy
Hi there, vimperator includes a keybinding for editing text boxes within an external editor. Since I really don't like the limited editing possibilities of GTK textboxes, I wanted to ask it it is possible to add a keybinding to open the content of a textbox within an external editor and if somebod

[dev] [surf] How to navigate with surf (beginner)

2009-11-19 Thread Maurí­cio CA
Hi, Can you share the way you use surf, like scripts etc.? For instance, I saved my bookmarks in a file so I can easily reach them using surf `grep ...`. One thing I couldn't find is how to navigate with surf using the keyboard. How can we select and follow links without a mouse? Thanks, Mauríc

Re: [dev] Re: Gentoo ebuilds [was Re: Re: [wmii] Odd key behaviour after changing focus in 3.9b1]

2009-11-19 Thread Armando Di Cianno
Yes, all those ruby gems are needed, if you plan to use the ruby alternative wmiirc script. It uses rumai, which pulls in other deps. None of them are currently in portage. I added use flags for ruby, python, plan9port to the ebuild, too. The Python alt script ships with the needed libs, so it w

[dev] Re: Gentoo ebuilds [was Re: Re: [wmii] Odd key behaviour after changing focus in 3.9b1]

2009-11-19 Thread doki_pen
>>> Dear Comrads, >>> >>> First off, many thanks for 3.9b1. Being the fairly content (read: >>> lazy) type I'd never bothered updating from 3.6r2 which is still the >>> most recent packaged version in Gentoo's Portage. Being stuck in bed >>> with the flu I took the time to update the ebuild for the

Gentoo ebuilds [was Re: [dev] Re: [wmii] Odd key behaviour after changing focus in 3.9b1]

2009-11-19 Thread Armando Di Cianno
to the suckless overlay: > http://hg.suckless.org/gentoo/ > > If you have more ebuilds, I'd love to have another contributer.  We can > get you commit on the repo. > > overlay-20091119.tar.bz2 Description: BZip2 compressed data

[dev] Re: [wmii] Odd key behaviour after changing focus in 3.9b1

2009-11-19 Thread doki_pen
In gmane.comp.misc.suckless, you wrote: > Dear Comrads, > > First off, many thanks for 3.9b1. Being the fairly content (read: > lazy) type I'd never bothered updating from 3.6r2 which is still the > most recent packaged version in Gentoo's Portage. Being stuck in bed > with the flu I took the time

Re: [dev] [dwm] an update of the moveresize patch

2009-11-19 Thread Claudio M. Alessi
I'm not sure what you mean with "old patch" but I use this since very old dwm releases (though with very little changes from time to time): static void moveresize(const Arg *arg) { XEvent ev; if( ! (selmon->sel && arg && selmon->sel->isfloating && arg->v) ) return; resize(selmon

Re: [dev] [OT] Java Hate

2009-11-19 Thread Anselm R Garbe
2009/11/19 Moritz Wilhelmy : > What about this one? > http://xinutec.org/~pippijn/en/why-not-use_java.xhtml That one disqualifies, it asks for more features apparently. Cheers, Anselm

Re: [dev] [OT] Java Hate

2009-11-19 Thread Moritz Wilhelmy
What about this one? http://xinutec.org/~pippijn/en/why-not-use_java.xhtml Moritz On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 02:09:30AM +0100, Uriel wrote: > I think Paul Graham's criticism's are much more relevant and timeless: > http://www.paulgraham.com/javacover.html > > In short, the real problems with java a