Re: [dev] [dwm] New software: swm & infobary

2024-10-26 Thread Chris Down
NRK writes: > Come on, Chris. The conditions dwm's license imposes is "The above > copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included", not > "Exactly what parts are copied and their authorship shall be indicated" > or whatever. (Or if you are giving that as a condition for granting

Re: [dev] [dwm] New software: swm & infobary

2024-10-26 Thread Chris Down
Raymond Cole writes: Come on, Chris. The conditions dwm's license imposes is "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included", not "Exactly what parts are copied and their authorship shall be indicated" or whatever. (Or if you are giving that as a condition for granting

Re: [dev] [dwm] New software: swm & infobary

2024-10-25 Thread Chris Down
Raymond Cole writes: My bad. I thought of that notice as transitional so didn't treat it very rigorously. I've updated swm to meet the requirement. I realize that the previous deal of including that piece of notice in exchange of relicensing might be considered quite insufficient by you guys.

Re: [dev] [dwm] possible regression in 8806b6e

2022-04-26 Thread Chris Down
Ethan Marshall writes: Completely fixed. All affected windows now behave as they did before the patch - so, problem solved on my end. Thanks for all your help Chris. Excellent, thanks for getting back. I've submitted it as a proper patch.

Re: [dev] [dwm] possible regression in 8806b6e

2022-04-25 Thread Chris Down
Hiltjo Posthuma writes: Whats the similar issue exactly? Does this issue also happen when bisecting the same commit (so its a also regression)? For 8806b6e23793 ("manage: propertynotify: Reduce cost of unused size hints"), the issue is that c->isfixed may not be set early, which might affect w

Re: [dev] [dwm] possible regression in 8806b6e

2022-04-25 Thread Chris Down
Hi Ethan, I'm still unable to reproduce the issue, but I am curious, does this fix things? :-) diff --git a/dwm.c b/dwm.c index 0fc328a..f2a10c0 100644 --- a/dwm.c +++ b/dwm.c @@ -1061,6 +1061,7 @@ manage(Window w, XWindowAttributes *wa) XSetWindowBorder(dpy, w, scheme[SchemeNorm][ColB

Re: [dev] [dwm] possible regression in 8806b6e

2022-04-23 Thread Chris Down
Sebastian LaVine writes: I believe this is known unintended behavior from the patch. I reverted it on my personal branch. It looks like you reverted commit bece862a0fc4 ("manage: For isfloating/oldstate check/set, ensure trans client actually exists"), not this commit, right?[0] In which c

Re: [dev] [dwm] possible regression in 8806b6e

2022-04-23 Thread Chris Down
Hi Ethan, Just checking, are you sure this bisects to 8806b6e23793 ("manage: propertynotify: Reduce cost of unused size hints")? I saw this issue prior to making this patch and bisected to bece862a0fc4 ("manage: For isfloating/oldstate check/set, ensure trans client actually exists"). I repor

[dev] sites repo issues? "remote: Unable to migrate objects to permanent storage"

2020-04-30 Thread Chris Down
master) Author: Chris Down Date: Mon Apr 20 13:55:40 2020 +0100 patches: Add resetlayout patch dwm.suckless.org/patches/resetlayout/dwm-resetlayout-20200420-c82db69.diff | 52 dwm.suckless.org/patches/re

Re: [dev] [dwm] How do I launch a window in floating mode without using `Rules rules[]`?

2019-05-15 Thread Chris Down
Chris Down writes: You can just use WM_CLASS for this. For example, with urxvt, you can do s/WM_CLASS/WM_NAME/ (although WM_CLASS is also perfectly serviceable)

Re: [dev] [dwm] How do I launch a window in floating mode without using `Rules rules[]`?

2019-05-14 Thread Chris Down
Hi Enan, Enan Ajmain writes: I want to add a keybinding to launch my terminal emulator in floating mode, and I want it to be separate from my regular keybinding to launch terminal in the currently active mode. If I wanted to launch the terminal window always in floating mode, I could have used r

Re: [dev] [dwm] Is there any way to prevent windows from stealing focus?

2019-05-09 Thread Chris Down
Alef Farah writes: For instance, if I open a website on Firefox, move to another window, and after a loading period Firefox pops up a basic access authentication window, the focus is stolen from whatever other window I was at. Is there any way to avoid or workaround this in dwm? To shamelessly

Re: [dev] [Announce] [dwm-6.2] [dmenu-4.9] new release

2019-05-02 Thread Chris Down
Hi there, ilf writes: drw.c:353:32: error: ‘FC_COLOR’ undeclared (first use in this function) Your fontconfig is way too old. You need at least 2.11.91, which was released nearly 5 years ago(!).

Re: [dev] [dwm] CPU usage spike when switching tags

2018-12-29 Thread Chris Down
Hi Abhijith, Assuming this is on Linux, what does perf(1) show the CPU time is being spent in? In general I'm sceptical about htop's sampling methodology, but if it's real perf should clearly show what it is.

Re: [dev] [dwm] My patch

2017-06-03 Thread Chris Down
Hi Kristaps, Firstly, please keep discussions about a single patch in one thread if possible, right now we have 3(!) different threads just about this one patch. Kristaps Civkulis writes: Recently I sent a patch http://lists.suckless.org/hackers/1706/15108.html and didn't get any response. I

[dev] [dwm] Window not created on external monitor with LibreOffice Impress

2016-05-31 Thread Chris Down
In some situations, I'm sadly forced to use a LibreOffice Impress to display pptx files or equivalent. When presenting these, generally I like to have the slides displayed on one monitor, and the presentation notes on another. When connecting an external monitor, it is recognised by LibreOffice i

Re: [dev] [dwm] Fullscreen clients not resized on X display resolution change

2015-10-13 Thread Chris Down
Bert Münnich writes: The attached patch fixes the problem. It's very kind of you to look into this, even though it wasn't your issue. Thanks a lot for the patch!

[dev] [dwm] Fullscreen clients not resized on X display resolution change

2015-10-12 Thread Chris Down
I reported a bug to sxiv[0] that it failed to resize in fullscreen mode. The author replied that this is a bug in dwm, not sxiv. For example, when plugging into a larger monitor (my external monitor) after running sxiv in fullscreen mode on my smaller monitor (built-in laptop display), I get a

[dev] Re: [slock] Where to report possible security vulnerability

2015-07-07 Thread Chris Down
Chris Down writes: this issue was fixed in April (in f5ef1b8eb)

[dev] Re: [slock] Where to report possible security vulnerability

2015-07-07 Thread Chris Down
Thanks for your replies. I talked to Markus privately, and it seems this issue was fixed in April (I was running a release version, not HEAD, my bad). The vulnerability was pretty limited anyway. It basically involves: - Lock the screen - Send EDID modelines with a higher res than at the time o

[dev] [slock] Where to report possible security vulnerability

2015-07-06 Thread Chris Down
Where should one report a possible security vulnerability in slock? Would people prefer such things are disclosed through this list? I'm guessing that's the case, but I'd rather err on the side of caution before posting such things to a public list.

Re: [dev] [scron] simple cron daemon

2014-07-05 Thread Chris Down
Džen writes: > Why fork scron if you could just provide useful patches to the > original author? To expand further on FRIGN's reply, forking with Git is not as destructive as it would be with, say, CVS or SVN. There are standard tools that can quite easily integrate the forked upstream back to mai

Re: [dev] Plain text editor that sucks less - an alternative to VIM?

2014-07-02 Thread Chris Down
Ryan O’Hara writes: > Quick, tell me whether /^http:(\/\/(?:[^/]+\/)+[/]final)$/ parses in > Ruby. If you're writing regexes like that, you really should be using a method that has a real understanding of URIs instead. pgpEYpE6tBkpV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [dev] reboot, arrow in the knee because of the GNU GPL???

2014-06-25 Thread Chris Down
Sylvain, You've had positive contributions here before. Please have consideration for the many subscribers who are here to participate in discussion related to suckless.org and suckless philosophy, and have no interest in meaningless mud slinging between two people. There is a good way to approac

Re: [dev] C coded cross-platform youtube video viewer

2014-05-16 Thread Chris Down
patrick295767 patrick295767 writes: > Actually, this page http://suckless.org/rocks could be better. > Many useful lightweight applications are not listed. If you think something is missing, then present a commit(s) to the submission queue, with your rationale in the commit message. pgpcIJUaeQM1

Re: [dev] [dmenu] regexp with dmenu?

2014-05-14 Thread Chris Down
Thuban writes: > Then, we can output with dmenu `filea fileabc fileabcde` if we write : > `filea*` > ( yes, its a very simple example...) Are you really asking for regular expressions, or just globbing? Your example seems to suggest you want the latter. pgpK_MXwaRxUn.pgp Description: PGP signatu

Re: [dev][project] soap - a simple xdg-open replacement

2014-05-04 Thread Chris Down
FRIGN writes: > If you mess up your damn soap-config.h, you almost deserve to get your > bloody hard drive wiped. > I designed soap to handle user input safely in the manner of that the > person who configures the program knows what he is dealing with. > > There's no denying you can exploit this b

Re: [dev][project] soap - a simple xdg-open replacement

2014-05-04 Thread Chris Down
7heo writes: > I don't trust Google, and I'm not going to take any definition from them. Google does not define this word, this word is defined by those who speak English. If you want to believe they are trying to undermine the course of language, or something, you are nuts. > Ever read 1984? You

Re: [dev][project] soap - a simple xdg-open replacement

2014-05-04 Thread Chris Down
Markus Wichmann writes: > Did you even read the code? Uh, yes. > Of course it does: Every existing single quote within the string > argument is replaced by a single quote, followed by a backslash, > followed by two single quotes. No way for that to turn out to be wrong > as far as I can see! You

Re: [dev][project] soap - a simple xdg-open replacement

2014-05-04 Thread Chris Down
7heo writes: > Your first use of the word 'instance' in your answer is very probably > intended to have the sense 4 in this definition: > http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/instance. That's a rather convoluted way of putting it, I meant what Google gives as definition 1 for "instance": "an

Re: [dev][project] soap - a simple xdg-open replacement

2014-05-04 Thread Chris Down
7heo writes: > open "; rm -rf /; .jpg" would be translated as `feh '; rm -rf /; .jpg'` > which would open the `; .jpg` in the `; rm -rf ` directory. I'm not sure I > see the problem here. I'm not talking about that specific instance, but in general. The shell quoting does not handle existing insta

Re: [dev][project] soap - a simple xdg-open replacement

2014-05-04 Thread Chris Down
FRIGN writes: > Wait a second: Don't forget I also do a shell-escape of the incoming > string. I did not see that, however that still doesn't really resolve the problem. You don't know which shell the user is using. This does not resolve all problems, anyway. Consider `foo 'bar %s'`. pgpk4AuMrC

Re: [dev][project] soap - a simple xdg-open replacement

2014-05-04 Thread Chris Down
FRIGN writes: > That's definitely a good point. However, fortifying the regexes to > strictly match URIs solves this problem instantly (Hell, just check for > spaces!). That also doesn't really work, as a basic example, "&" is a perfectly valid character in a URI without encoding, but it has other

Re: [dev][project] soap - a simple xdg-open replacement

2014-05-04 Thread Chris Down
FRIGN writes: > A configuration can look like this: > > { "\.mp3","st -e mplayer %s" }, > { "\.(jpg|png|tiff)$","feh %s"}, > { "\.gif","wget -O /tmp/tmp.gif %s && gifview -a > /tmp/tmp.gif" }, > { "^(http://|https://)?(www\.)?(youtube.com/watch\?|youtu\

[dev] [meta] DMARC interoperation

2014-04-08 Thread Chris Down
Since I started paying attention to my DMARC results recently, I noticed that this mailing list does not play nice with DMARC. Is there any chance to act as a strict forwarder or (at the very least) Original-Authentication-Results? Right now DMARC will always fail on mails forwarded from this list.

Re: [dev] [dmenu] [path] segfault on XK_Return when nothing matched

2014-04-06 Thread Chris Down
Anton Ermolenko writes: > I've tried to use dmenu to open URLs with surf and discovered that it > crashes with segfault when you hit return on a word which hasn't matches. Is "it" dmenu or surf? Assuming I have understood your report correctly (dmenu segfaults when you hit return on a word with no

Re: [dev] Shell vs C where is the border?

2014-03-10 Thread Chris Down
Szymon Olewniczak writes: > But having so many individual programs is more harder to use that just > one (we need to run more commands), so reasonable would be to combine > all this commands to one script which would do all this work > automaticaly. So what solution would be better in your opinion?

Re: [dev] What is bad with Python

2014-03-05 Thread Chris Down
FRIGN writes: > Well, what I noticed is the huge size of the compiled binaries. > 2.2M for a "Hello World"-program is an unreasonable demand. It's > possible to strip the size to around 1.2M by passing > -ldflags '-s -w' > to "go build". > This is quite inhibiting, but I'm glad to see this mo

Re: [dev] [off-topic]How to donate to suckless.org?

2014-02-27 Thread Chris Down
On 2014-02-27 17:37:48 -0500, Andrew Hills wrote: > No because the site is not run on node.js and mongodb. It could be worse: http://www.builtinperl.com/ pgpVc5xk_Ru5s.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [dev] suckless conf this year?

2014-02-27 Thread Chris Down
If I am in Europe (assuming it would be held there), I would be up for going. pgp1p0eLf4Lfl.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [dev] [dwm][patch] Executing key bindings on key release

2014-02-25 Thread Chris Down
On 2014-02-25 21:52:37 +0100, Niklas Høj wrote: > Duly noted. I can't help but wonder, though: would it not be more > intuitive to have patches applied to the configuration that an install > actually uses? Why not have a "config.h" in the repository? Because config.def.h sets out the format for th

Re: [dev] [dwm][patch] Executing key bindings on key release

2014-02-25 Thread Chris Down
One more thing I just noticed: "type" inside the struct is indented using spaces while the code around it uses hard tabs. Best to keep the standard indentation, I think. pgp2AEw66XBZe.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [dev] [dwm][patch] Executing key bindings on key release

2014-02-25 Thread Chris Down
Why is keypress renamed to "keypressrelease"? My opinion is that "keypress" is an appropriate name anyway, since I consider a release to be just one part of a "press" (which consists of depression and then release). Maybe this terminology is not the same as X, but I think most English speakers use

Re: [dev] [dwm][patch] Executing key bindings on key release

2014-02-25 Thread Chris Down
Please note that dwm@ and dev@ are the same list -- you sent the same message twice to the same list. :-) On 2014-02-25 19:50:37 +0100, Niklas Høj wrote: > I have submitted a patch to enable key bindings being executed on key > release if specified, as discussed here: > http://lists.suckless.org/d

Re: [dev] Suckless pinyin input?

2014-02-24 Thread Chris Down
On 2014-02-24 12:58:38 +0900, Renick Bell wrote: > I've had better luck with fcitx, though not sure how much less the > code sucks. fcitx with sunpinyin is great, thanks. I've switched over to that. :-) 谢谢 pgpjIfEmIMC4F.pgp Description: PGP signature

[dev] Re: Suckless pinyin input?

2014-02-23 Thread Chris Down
On 2014-02-24 11:40:57 +0800, Chris Down wrote: > Does anyone know of any less-sucky Pinyin input systems (on Linux)? I'm > trying to get IBus working, but the code sucks pretty bad, and so far > I have failed to even get it to work (the keyboard binding seems to > work becaus

[dev] Suckless pinyin input?

2014-02-23 Thread Chris Down
Does anyone know of any less-sucky Pinyin input systems (on Linux)? I'm trying to get IBus working, but the code sucks pretty bad, and so far I have failed to even get it to work (the keyboard binding seems to work because it doesn't pass through to the underlying application any more, but the inpu

Re: [dev] tmux/screen alternative

2014-02-22 Thread Chris Down
On 2014-02-22 14:33:20 +0100, Anselm R Garbe wrote: > For terminal detach/attach I could use dtach. I'm only after a > solution for scrollback buffer. Probably this should become a separate > tool. It is still my opinion that the scrollback buffer should be the job of the terminal emulator, but I

Re: [dev] tmux/screen alternative

2014-02-22 Thread Chris Down
On 2014-02-22 14:19:12 +0100, Anselm R Garbe wrote: > is there any less sucking screen/tmux replacement these days? For which part? Terminal multiplexing, or terminal attach/detach? pgpVAgc4zqniH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [dev] [dwm] Fullscreen windows losing focus

2014-02-19 Thread Chris Down
On 2014-02-19 21:20:47 +0800, Chris Down wrote: > On 2014-02-19 14:09:26 +0100, Manolo Martínez wrote: > > When, e.g., zathura is in fullscreen mode, one can change focus to > > another window while zathura remains on screen. This can > > be disorienting. Is this a pro

Re: [dev] [dwm] Fullscreen windows losing focus

2014-02-19 Thread Chris Down
On 2014-02-19 14:09:26 +0100, Manolo Martínez wrote: > When, e.g., zathura is in fullscreen mode, one can change focus to > another window while zathura remains on screen. This can > be disorienting. Is this a problem with zathura, or something that can be > patched in dwm? If this is undesirable,

Re: [dev] hotkey (1) - a suckless global keybinder

2014-02-09 Thread Chris Down
On 2014-02-09 14:18:01 +0100, Jens Staal wrote: > have a look at the poetic license > > http://www.genaud.net/2005/10/poetic-license/ > > ... its cute while still saying everything that is needed. ...and almost certainly not legally tested. pgpb36Q16Si39.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [dev] hotkey (1) - a suckless global keybinder

2014-02-09 Thread Chris Down
On 2014-02-09 11:03:13 +, Rob wrote: > Regarding EXIT_SUCCESS, I think this is perhaps a bit picky, 0 is > perfectly fine and besides, every non-trivial shell script hard codes > stdout and stderr: 2>&1. Eh, it probably doesn't matter. It was more a small comment about portability to "unknown"

Re: [dev] hotkey (1) - a suckless global keybinder

2014-02-09 Thread Chris Down
On 2014-02-09 01:43:55 -0500, Calvin Morrison wrote: > Surely the user knows what shell they are using? Sure it's a valid > point, but almost irrelevant at the same time. Who cares about their > shell behavior? If they think it's an issue, then they need not run > any commands. I assume people are

Re: [dev] hotkey (1) - a suckless global keybinder

2014-02-08 Thread Chris Down
On 2014-02-09 01:22:00 -0500, Calvin Morrison wrote: > > - You are using system(), which is highly unportable and extremely > > fragile; > > I'm not so sure. What's a better solution? system() seems like a very > standard function. Portability is also not a real concern for me. mos > everybody u

Re: [dev] hotkey (1) - a suckless global keybinder

2014-02-08 Thread Chris Down
On 2014-02-08 18:37:19 -0500, Calvin Morrison wrote: > I have had a love affair with dwm's config.h. Unfortunately I also > love i3, and also deal with a plethora of other desktops on my day to > day work. so I created hotkey (1). > > Why wasn't there a simple way to have hotkeys, dealt with prope

[dev] dmenu-based clipboard manager

2014-02-05 Thread Chris Down
In case it interests anyone, I wrote a clipboard manager based around dmenu[0]. Run clipmenud to start collecting data from the clipboard, and then run clipmenu to select which one you want to put on the clipboard again. You can pass arguments to dmenu transparently by passing them to clipmenu. T

[dev] [dwm] [PATCH] iscentered: Center client on monitor

2014-01-23 Thread Chris Down
This is a tiny patch to add client centering support, which I am using to hack up scratchpad functionality elsewhere. Obviously this is only really useful if c->isfloating is also True. I hacked this patch into my current configuration, so it is not tested verbatim, but it should work when applie

Re: [dev] [PATCH] update years in copyright notices

2014-01-21 Thread Chris Down
On 2014-01-22 14:10:21 +0800, Chris Down wrote: > Copyright for new components can only take effect when those new > components are written -- preemptively writing a copyright year for code > that does not even exist yet simply does not make sense. Ah, I missed that it previously said

Re: [dev] [PATCH] update years in copyright notices

2014-01-21 Thread Chris Down
On 2014-01-21 23:12:08 +0100, Markus Teich wrote: > I know it's a little bit late, but I just noticed this. It probably can be > bumped to 2014 in the other repos as well. Why? Copyright for new components can only take effect when those new components are written -- preemptively writing a copyri

Re: [dev] st stutters and freezes, with 100% cpu usage, during window resize via mouse drag

2014-01-15 Thread Chris Down
On 2014-01-14 18:13:58 -0800, Parke wrote: > st also uses slightly more memory than xterm. If the memory usage is still reasonable, why do you care how much it uses relative to xterm? Different programs, different designs, different resource usage patterns. pgpqhZjSYsfCi.pgp Description: PGP sig

Re: [dev] [dwm] gaps patch

2014-01-12 Thread Chris Down
On 2014-01-12 22:05:21 -0200, Carlos Pita wrote: > I would like to share this alternative to the uselessgap patch I've > written. Thanks a lot for all the patches recently. Did you already submit them to the submission queue on the wiki? For now I have them flagged in Mutt, but it would be nice to

Re: [dev] [dwm] xtile patch

2014-01-12 Thread Chris Down
If this patch does everything it claims to do, then it could serve to be very useful. Thanks a lot, Carlos. On 2014-01-12 22:00:59 -0200, Carlos Pita wrote: > Content-Type: text/x-markdown; charset=US-ASCII; name="xtile.md" Note that the usage of an X- prefix was deprecated in RFC6648[0]; I would

Re: [dev] [sbase] printf(1)

2013-12-18 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-12-18 21:06:08 -0600, William Giokas wrote: > People on this list need to learn about 'git format-patch' and 'git > send-email'... ...and about not quoting the entirety of the last message as context when it doesn't provide any. :-) pgpIqSRxp_FhA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [dev] wswsh: a mksh web framework

2013-12-12 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-12-13 14:31:51 +0800, Patrick wrote: > Maybe give him the benefit of the doubt that he meant something like > 'maintains hierarchical taxonomy'. /2013/12/01/foo.html or /2013/12/01/foo/ -- I certainly don't care, but specifically trying to get the latter over the former is just insanity.

Re: [dev] wswsh: a mksh web framework

2013-12-12 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-12-13 14:23:25 +0800, Kai Hendry wrote: > On 13 December 2013 14:20, Chris Down wrote: > > Did you really just say that every file should just be abstracted as a > > directory... how much of that web 2.0 Kool-Aid did you drink? > > Is there an easier way to enco

Re: [dev] wswsh: a mksh web framework

2013-12-12 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-12-13 14:09:25 +0800, Kai Hendry wrote: > you want foo.html to be exposed by your httpd as /foo/ ? No. > Only generate one index.html per directory. Simples. Did you really just say that every file should just be abstracted as a directory... how much of that web 2.0 Kool-Aid did you drin

Re: [dev] wswsh: a mksh web framework

2013-12-12 Thread Chris Down
Oh Kai :-) On 2013-12-13 12:00:46 +0800, Kai Hendry wrote: > This sucks > > Why mksh? Can't you use POSIX shell? Enjoy your lack of useful functionality for no reason. At least mksh is reasonable (disclaimer: I have not looked at the code). > config files suck https://twitter.com/rob_pike/statu

Re: [dev] alternatives to find for querying the filesystem

2013-12-12 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-12-12 14:32:03 -0500, Andrew Gwozdziewycz wrote: > So, to find all files in /etc modified within the last hour... > > walk /etc | agep -1H - > > Or, > > walk /etc | xargs agep -1H The problem here is speed. For any non-trivial number of files, this will become non-negligibly slower due

Re: [dev] Article about suckless on root.cz

2013-12-02 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-12-02 11:18:25 +0100, FRIGN wrote: > You can present the benefits of compile-time-configuration even more > and make even clearer, that compiling nowadays doesn't take much time > anymore (at least for me, not having to learn yet another config- > interface for package xy). From my experie

Re: [dev] Adding MRU support to dmenu

2013-12-02 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-12-01 18:19:22 -0500, Eyal Erez wrote: > create mode 100644 .gitignore A gitignore when there are no subdirectories? What do you want a gitignore for? Just don't do `git add .` (ever). Even if it was desirable, it should be provided as part of a separate patch. pgptGWApIW0Kj.pgp Descri

Re: [dev] Adding MRU support to dmenu

2013-12-02 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-12-02 01:38:34 +0100, Markus Teich wrote: > tac should work as well of course. They don't both work, `rev` reverses per-character, `tac` reverses per-line. pgpJSGfYOJjBs.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [dev][announce] slm - music curation

2013-11-28 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-11-28 10:29:07 -0500, Bobby Powers wrote: > How do you figure out mime type from a file? I understand if a server > gives you a HTTP header, but if it is a static file on disk, I don't > think it is guaranteed to have a mime type as an xattr. Is there a > standard way to store/determine m

Re: [dev] suckless shell prompt?

2013-11-25 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-11-25 21:11:09 +0100, Alexander Huemer wrote: > > Although maybe we don't have to care about POSIX any more as long as > > we're not /bin/sh, who knows. I know a few people who are happily using > > fish (which sucks), but at least it shows that people don't necessarily > > care about POSIX

Re: [dev] suckless shell prompt?

2013-11-25 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-11-25 14:16:48 +0200, Dimitris Zervas wrote: > Well, making our own shell, would be a really good idea! In my opinion others already got close enough for us not to worry (rc, mksh, undoubtedly others). We had some discussion about whether we would have a shell included with sbase, but I th

Re: [dev] [st] Cannot compile latest HEAD, nor 0.4.1

2013-11-25 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-11-25 10:59:10 -0500, Carlos Torres wrote: > so this all gets fixed if you merge in updates to config.def.h into > your config.h. My recommendation if you are using two upstreams with git is to symlink config.h to config.def.h, and then just merge the one file. (although, there are like a

Re: [dev] [st] Cannot compile latest HEAD, nor 0.4.1

2013-11-25 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-11-25 19:51:33 +0100, Matthias Beyer wrote: > Yes, I understood what they mean, but I thought I did not make any > modifications in config.h,... but seemingly I did,... that's what got > me! It's not just about whether you make changes to config.h, but also about the fact that config.h can

Re: Tags as tags (Was: [dev] Desktop warping for DWM?)

2013-11-17 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-11-17 11:39:48 +0100, FRIGN wrote: > Fair point, but let's look at it this way: How can users disregard > something they haven't tried out in the first place? Who said they didn't? pgpTAqxKqH3BZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Tags as tags (Was: [dev] Desktop warping for DWM?)

2013-11-17 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-11-17 20:31:59 +0800, Chris Down wrote: > To apply that broadly to all users that don't find tags-as-tags > particularly useful is not really a good way of providing evidence for a > claim. The reason I generally use tags-as-windows rather than > tags-at-tags, for exampl

Re: Tags as tags (Was: [dev] Desktop warping for DWM?)

2013-11-17 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-11-17 11:28:46 +0100, FRIGN wrote: > It inherently does, as most beginners are taught the > Windows/Ubuntu/Gnome-way, which is in fact not offering huge variety > for testing out different usage-concepts. To apply that broadly to all users that don't find tags-as-tags particularly useful i

Re: Tags as tags (Was: [dev] Desktop warping for DWM?)

2013-11-14 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-11-14 22:13:53 +0100, Manolo Martínez wrote: > I've been referred to that blog post before, and I find it interesting > and useful. But what it probably is not is a description of the way dwm was > meant to be > used or some such. The fact that the poster recommends changing the > default

Re: [dev] Possible improvement on slock - suid

2013-11-14 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-11-14 15:46:23 +0100, patrick295767 patrick295767 wrote: > Me, I do believe that slock shall be targeting the aim of this program: > 1) lock x11. Lock X11 *in a correct fashion*. pgpQa2d9WxsBQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [dev] Possible improvement on slock - suid

2013-11-14 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-11-14 08:51:11 +0100, patrick295767 patrick295767 wrote: > In my opinion, the lock (slock) shall be remain very light based a > very minimum of x11, in other words just on the x11 minimum of x11 > layer functions/libs Correctness before simplicity, always in that order. pgpOUKmWnz2cg

Re: [dev] Question about arg.h

2013-11-05 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-11-06 06:38:23 +0100, Christoph Lohmann wrote: > You have nothing to say, I guess. What does it make you feel that I do not append a salutation and closing to this e-mail? Does it bother you in any way? If so, why? If not, why should I do so? pgpFwshGOPNWT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [dev] Question about arg.h

2013-11-05 Thread Chris Down
Good gribbly greetings my good chum, On 2013-11-05 21:38:35 +0100, Alexander Huemer wrote: > P.S. I passionately hate people who top-post, don't give enough details > and cannot say hi or bye in an email. Having to prepend a salutation to every message, and then a goodbye message and your name i

Re: [dev] Suckless remote shell?

2013-11-03 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-11-03 15:18, Sylvain BERTRAND wrote: > gnutls? I'm guessing to say that, you must have never used the horror that is GnuTLS :-) PolarSSL is okay-ish, it's GPL though. pgpAn3Qh9vCuo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [dev] Suckless remote shell?

2013-11-03 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-11-03 11:07, FRIGN wrote: > I could imagine a fork/rewrite based on OpenSSL's crypto-code, called > "s3l" ("suckless ssl"), but see the implicated problems with it. You > can't just rewrite software without having at least one real > specialist to check the code. Looking at OpenSSL, it ha

Re: [dev] Suckless remote shell?

2013-11-03 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-11-03 12:43, Christoph Lohmann wrote: > Use ssh, it’s all there. The deployment vs. suck rate is too low in com‐ > parison to what could go wrong implementing such a critical feature > in an insecure way. I agree about the last point, but I'm not sure deployment should factor into it

Re: [dev] IRC on Free node

2013-11-03 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-11-03 09:47, FRIGN wrote: > How effective is it to actually bind sshd to another port (like 1337 for > instance)? > Is that a sane defense against those attacks or have the > attackers advanced in the last few years to to a broader portscan? In my experience, it cuts it down quite signific

Re: [dev] IRC on Free node

2013-11-02 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-11-02 22:54, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: > Chris Down said: > > On 2013-11-02 11:13, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: > > Irony? Huh? pgpfsdKrYPUaF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [dev] IRC on Free node

2013-11-02 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-11-02 15:18, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Either that, or hand-trim the fullquote before adding one’s own text. > People even do that in Outlook Expreß when they need to but know how > to properly quote… it just involves a little bit of effort. But not > much more, since one needs to trim the q

Re: [dev] IRC on Free node

2013-11-02 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-11-02 12:03, patrick295767 patrick295767 wrote: > well, a lot of large corporate companies offer a webmail portal? > Accenture for instance. > > IT do not like it so much, but, it is still not too bad in terms of security. You are slowly demonstrating that you do not actually read the e-m

Re: [dev] IRC on Free node

2013-11-02 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-11-02 11:33, koneu wrote: > I don't get people who use it either. > However I've been told it's quite useful on public computers. I'm amazed that people consider it wise to access their e-mail on public computers, to be honest. You wouldn't access online banking on a public computer (I hop

Re: [dev] IRC on Free node

2013-11-02 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-11-02 11:27, patrick295767 wrote: > But you can always encrypt the email. > Btw, why aren't we posting (emailing to the list) in plain text and > encrypted actually? Do you know some dev lists where they use > encryption? > - I would be interesting if there was. - Yes, this would be a first

Re: [dev] IRC on Free node

2013-11-02 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-11-02 11:13, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: > Gmail's webmail doesn't allow to tune quoting & attribution in a > sensible manner, so repeating this every time doesn't make much sense. > May be you just move the links to your signature? Surely the answer to that is to not use Gmail's webmail cl

Re: [dev] IRC on Free node

2013-11-01 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-11-01 09:14, patrick295767 patrick295767 wrote: > You trace the IP address on OFTC or provide some cloak? Go talk to the OFTC ircops if you want that. Usually, they won't give you one, but who cares. pgpg0uM1UBHk_.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [dev] IRC on Free node

2013-11-01 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-11-01 09:08, patrick295767 patrick295767 wrote: > Would you know if there could be a new channel of Suckless on irc > freenode? > > I would recommend freenode which is quite popular. We already have an IRC channel, #suckless on OFTC. pgpksOqMQRME3.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [dev] Some thoughts about XML

2013-10-23 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-10-24 01:04, Samuel Holland wrote: > [body] > content="%ol%%p%" > [ol] > style="list-style-type: decimal" > content="%li.1%%li.2%%li.3" > [li] > style="display: list-item" > content1="Lack of proper hierarchy, for one;" > content2="Lack of proper heterogeneous containers, for two;" > conten

Re: [dev] TDD

2013-10-22 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-10-22 20:06, Szymon Olewniczak wrote: > what is your opinion about TDD? Is it suckles or not? Do you have any > experience with this kind of development? Do TDD in C make any sense? In my experience, it does not work. It inhibits me from being able to creatively design a program and solve

Re: [dev] I'm back

2013-10-21 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-10-21 16:28, koneu wrote: > On Oct 21, 2013, at 10:41 AM, hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I hope it scared you away from webkit also. > > Compared to Gecko (XUL, lol!), the only other web engine as popular as > WebKit, WebKit is a blessing, especially WebCore. I think only Hubbub beats >

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