Re: [dev] new pre-patched version of dwm available

2016-07-26 Thread Britton Kerin
On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 7:26 PM, Ben Woolley wrote: > I think it is natural for related changes to be consolidated over time. Think > of punctuated equilibrium. > > Maybe after it is clear that some patches just go well together, fitting a > related niche, they could be consolidated to make main

Re: [dev] [dmenu] [PATCH] Added option to prompt for passwords

2016-07-26 Thread Eric Pruitt
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 06:16:15PM +0200, Kajetan Jasztal wrote: > Hash masking [0] password gives you more insight in mistakes you made > while you are typing since you can remember sequence of changing > hashes while you type and correct them on the fly. I've seen that before, and although I th

Re: [dev] [dmenu] [PATCH] Added option to prompt for passwords

2016-07-26 Thread Eric Pruitt
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 06:09:18PM +0200, Jan Christoph Ebersbach wrote: > If dmenu could easily be used as a replacement for pinentry my desktop > would suck a little less. I'm not aware of many other use cases for > entering passwords. Is that possible with your patch? The pinentry programs fo

Re: [dev] [dmenu] [PATCH] Added option to prompt for passwords

2016-07-26 Thread Kajetan Jasztal
2016-07-25 23:22 GMT+02:00 Eric Pruitt : > In general, I find showing the asterisks useful because if I > accidentally press two keys at once or something, I have the opportunity > to correct it rather than typing something then, hitting Enter and > wondering what I did wrong. On a couple of occasi

Re: [dev] [dmenu] [PATCH] Added option to prompt for passwords

2016-07-26 Thread Jan Christoph Ebersbach
If dmenu could easily be used as a replacement for pinentry my desktop would suck a little less. I'm not aware of many other use cases for entering passwords. Is that possible with your patch? Jan Christoph On Mon 25-07-2016 13:21 -0700, Eric Pruitt wrote: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 11:14:28PM

[dev] [dmenu][PATCH] Improve spacing in config.h

2016-07-26 Thread Ivan Tham
--- config.def.h | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/config.def.h b/config.def.h index 1edb647..b53885b 100644 --- a/config.def.h +++ b/config.def.h @@ -8,10 +8,10 @@ static const char *fonts[] = { }; static const char *prompt = NULL; /* -p option

Re: [dev] [dmenu] [PATCH] Added option to prompt for passwords

2016-07-26 Thread v4hn
Hey everyone, hey hiro, I did not yet look at the patch, but it would be a nice (and imo reasonably small) addition to allow for password entry via dmenu. If the asterisk-approach is too bloated for the maintainer's taste, I'm unsure about this myself, I believe `dmenu -p "Enter Password" -g` wher

Re: [dev] [dmenu] [PATCH] Added option to prompt for passwords

2016-07-26 Thread hiro
i think the idea was fine, as long as you provide autocompletion for your password, too.