Re: [dev] xmessage replacement similar to dmenu

2010-11-23 Thread Moritz Wilhelmy
Excerpts from Antoni Grzymala's message of Wed Nov 24 01:07:40 +0100 2010: > Would you mind sharing your Xdefaults? The font in the screenshot is proggyclean but I switched to xft and dejavu sans mono for urxvt a while back (it has better unicode support). The colours are global, not only for urx

Re: [dev] xmessage replacement similar to dmenu

2010-11-23 Thread Moritz Wilhelmy
How about reading the mails in this thread before posting? dzen was already mentioned.

Re: [dev] xmessage replacement similar to dmenu

2010-11-23 Thread Antoni Grzymala
Moritz Wilhelmy dixit (2010-11-23, 20:48): > First of all, dmenu is a menu, not a message-displayer. The xmessage colors > can > be configured from ~/.Xdefaults. See here[1] for an example. [...] > [1] http://up.barfooze.de/starf-201011232048.png Would you mind sharing your Xdefaults? This sc

Re: [dev] xmessage replacement similar to dmenu

2010-11-23 Thread Paul Thompson
How about dzen? http://sites.google.com/site/gotmor/dzen Regards, Paul On Nov 23, 2010, at 3:26 PM, David Arroyo wrote: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 08:37:04PM +0200, Ciprian Dorin, Craciun wrote: >>Hello all! >> >>I'm currently using the `dmenu` in some scripts, but I also need a >> tool

Re: [dev] xmessage replacement similar to dmenu

2010-11-23 Thread David Arroyo
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 08:37:04PM +0200, Ciprian Dorin, Craciun wrote: > Hello all! > > I'm currently using the `dmenu` in some scripts, but I also need a > tool similar to `dmenu` which displays a (multi-line) message (like > `xmessage`). Why not just use a terminal? I used to have a sh

Re: [dev] xmessage replacement similar to dmenu

2010-11-23 Thread thuban
Hi! did you try to use 9menu?

Re: [dev] xmessage replacement similar to dmenu

2010-11-23 Thread Connor Lane Smith
Hey, On 23 November 2010 18:37, Ciprian Dorin, Craciun wrote: > I'm currently using the `dmenu` in some scripts, but I also need a > tool similar to `dmenu` which displays a (multi-line) message (like > `xmessage`). > And secondly: is there a `dmenu` patch that also allows the > display of a mul

Re: [dev] xmessage replacement similar to dmenu

2010-11-23 Thread Moritz Wilhelmy
Excerpts from Ciprian Dorin, Craciun's message of Tue Nov 23 20:34:04 +0100 2010: > Well I like `dmenu` for two very important reasons: first it is > simple and solves only one problem (thus suckless :) ), and second it > looks really slick. (It fits as a glove with the `i3` window manager, >

Re: [dev] xmessage replacement similar to dmenu

2010-11-23 Thread Kurt H Maier
both of those problems can be fixed with configuration directives -- # Kurt H Maier

Re: [dev] xmessage replacement similar to dmenu

2010-11-23 Thread Ciprian Dorin, Craciun
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 21:15, Moritz Wilhelmy wrote: > If you need something like xmessage and think dzen has too many features, why > don't you use xmessage? > > Cheers, > > Moritz Well I like `dmenu` for two very important reasons: first it is simple and solves only one problem (thus suck

Re: [dev] xmessage replacement similar to dmenu

2010-11-23 Thread Moritz Wilhelmy
If you need something like xmessage and think dzen has too many features, why don't you use xmessage? Cheers, Moritz

[dev] xmessage replacement similar to dmenu

2010-11-23 Thread Ciprian Dorin, Craciun
Hello all! I'm currently using the `dmenu` in some scripts, but I also need a tool similar to `dmenu` which displays a (multi-line) message (like `xmessage`). So my first question is: are there any such similar tools? (I think `dzen` would be good candidate, but I'm afraid it's a litt

Re: [dev] git dmenu mirror with feature branches instead of separate patches

2010-11-23 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 23 Nov 2010, at 9:52 am, Anselm R Garbe wrote: On 22 November 2010 23:37, Wolf Tivy wrote: I think we should stop creating unwanted complexity. As for all suckless software our goal is to create software that works for everyone without having tons of configure options and features to choos

Re: [dev] git dmenu mirror with feature branches instead of separate patches

2010-11-23 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 22 November 2010 23:37, Wolf Tivy wrote: >> I think we should stop creating unwanted complexity. As for all >> suckless software our goal is to create software that works for >> everyone without having tons of configure options and features to >> choose from. For those exceptional cases where p