[dev] [wmii] Tabbed mode?

2011-03-22 Thread Henri Ducrocq
Hi, Forgive me if this is an FAQ, for all my searching skills I was unable to find the info: Is there a way to get a tabbed mode for wmii? My laptop screen being 1. quite large and 2. close to my face, I find it a bit difficult to visually scan up and down columns to see what windows it contains.

Re: [dev] [wmii] running script on 'desktop'?

2011-03-22 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Benjamin Cathey wrote: Just curious if it is possible to run a script on the background image (sort of conky-ish)? I'm thinking not due to the nature of wmii, however I thought it couldn't hurt to ask. The root window's still there, and you can still draw on it. I'd nev

Re: [dev] [wmii] running script on 'desktop'?

2011-03-22 Thread Sean Howard
Ah - sorry. Reread the wmiirc. It uses xsetroot to set the background. Therefore running a program in the root window (examples: xrootconsole, xmoon, xpenguins, or xfireworks) will happen over top of that. On 22 March 2011 11:08, Sean Howard wrote: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/xrootconsole/

Re: [dev] [wmii] running script on 'desktop'?

2011-03-22 Thread Sean Howard
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xrootconsole/ - I don't know if it's packaged in arch. I personally use the OpenBSD package, but that has little bearing on any Linux I know. The "root window" is a window, however, it is currently likely being take up by your background. On 22 March 2011 10:44, Be

Re: [dev] [wmii] running script on 'desktop'?

2011-03-22 Thread Benjamin Cathey
Hey again Well in wmii, I use terminator set to transparent so that my background image shows through (set using 'feh' in my wmiirc). I was wondering if there was a way to have a script running and have the output display over the background displayed by feh and under the terminator window (o

Re: [dev] [wmii] running script on 'desktop'?

2011-03-22 Thread Sean Howard
What do you mean by this? If Conky outputs as text, you can send it's output to a constantly updating xrootconsole (sorta hackish and not very pretty, and likely you need to install xrootconsole) (printing out_to_console=yes and out_to_x=no). I don't use the program myself, but I think I can see w

[dev] [wmii] running script on 'desktop'?

2011-03-22 Thread Benjamin Cathey
Just curious if it is possible to run a script on the background image (sort of conky-ish)? I'm thinking not due to the nature of wmii, however I thought it couldn't hurt to ask. Thanks Benjamin

Re: [dev] wmii hardware keyboard shortcut layout at boot problem

2011-03-22 Thread Tom Kazimiers
Hi, On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 09:03:43PM -0400, Eitan Goldshtrom wrote: > I set the keyboard layout to Dvorak with the KEYBOARD variable in > rc.conf. When I start wmii though all my keyboard shortcuts are set > to the hardware keys, which are QWERTY. I'm using Arch Linux and I > installed xbindkeys