[dev] Re: How do you cope with OSX? (if at all)

2011-03-18 Thread David Engster
Anselm R. Garbe writes: > at work I have to use OSX (on a MacBook Pro 13") for various reasons > and wonder if anyone is using dwm in conjunction with OSX? Not dwm, but wmii under XQuartz. You can run XQuartz in fullscreen, but I ran into several problems and now I usually let it run in a separate

[dev] Re: [9buntu] first attempt -bashing needed

2010-07-30 Thread David Engster
Jens Staal writes: > Stuff that seems to break the system > - removing Bash (lots of warninigs after an aptitude purge bash and the boot > hangs from the resulting iso) - which was surprising since most upstart > things seem dash-controlled. The boot process probably needs some > analysis... Is it

[dev] Re: XDG directories

2010-06-11 Thread David Engster
Dieter Plaetinck writes: > On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:09:55 +0200 > David Engster wrote: > >> Dieter Plaetinck writes: >> > yes, both the app data and user data (can) end(s) up in >> > $XDG_DATA_HOME >> >> I see that in my .local/share as well. It'

[dev] Re: XDG directories

2010-06-11 Thread David Engster
Dieter Plaetinck writes: > On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:29:41 -0400 > Kris Maglione wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 03:17:18PM +0200, David Engster wrote: >> >David Engster writes: >> >> I'm trying to understand which problem exactly is solved by this. I &g

[dev] Re: XDG directories

2010-06-11 Thread David Engster
David Engster writes: > Kris Maglione writes: >> While on the one hand, I think that the people who wrote the XDG spec >> are raving mad[1], on the other, I hate applications clogging up my >> home directory with dot-files. I'm considering moving ~/.wmii to >> ~

[dev] Re: XDG directories

2010-06-11 Thread David Engster
Kris Maglione writes: > While on the one hand, I think that the people who wrote the XDG spec > are raving mad[1], on the other, I hate applications clogging up my > home directory with dot-files. I'm considering moving ~/.wmii to > ~/.config/wmii. I'm trying to understand which problem exactly is

[dev] Re: [ANN] wmii 3.9.1 released

2010-06-09 Thread David Engster
'uriel' writes: > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:49 PM, David Engster wrote: >> It seems Ubuntu installs 'mawk' for providing 'awk', which by default >> buffers its input, so the above won't do anything. Ubuntu users will >> have to install

[dev] Re: [ANN] wmii 3.9.1 released

2010-06-09 Thread David Engster
Kris Maglione writes: > As it happens, it was fixed and 0.5.6.1 was released within a day of > me reporting the bug, and Arch picked it up within a day of that. The > odd thing is that, though the revision I found pinpointed the bug to > is one commit after the 0.5.5.1 tag, the people who've report

[dev] Re: [ANN] wmii 3.9.1 released

2010-06-09 Thread David Engster
Kris Maglione writes: > There's a bug in dash 0.5.6's job control where a SIGCHLD interrupts > the read loop, thereby killing wmiirc whenever a program exits. At any > rate, I'm taking a different tack, if anyone would like to test it: [...] > + ( Event $event "$@" ) Event loop works

[dev] Re: [ANN] wmii 3.9.1 released

2010-06-08 Thread David Engster
Kris Maglione writes: > On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 07:49:50PM +0200, David Engster wrote: >>It seems Ubuntu installs 'mawk' for providing 'awk', which by default >>buffers its input, so the above won't do anything. Ubuntu users will >>have to install &#x

[dev] Re: [ANN] wmii 3.9.1 released

2010-06-08 Thread David Engster
Kris Maglione writes: > I'm releasing wmii 3.9.1, mainly to deal with bugs which have cropped > up in the latest glibc and dash releases, breaking wmiir and wmiirc > respectively. Thank you. I noticed a problem on a machine at work running Ubuntu, essentially due to this construction in the event

[dev] Re: wmii; make with /bin/bash not with /bin/sh

2010-05-31 Thread David Engster
David Schmid writes: > David Engster wrote: >> Robert Ransom writes: >>> On Thu, 20 May 2010 14:51:37 +0200 >>> David Schmid wrote: >>>> Measures tried: >>>> - resetting PATH, since make calls /bin/sh and not sh it is >>>> never loo

[dev] Re: wmii; make with /bin/bash not with /bin/sh

2010-05-20 Thread David Engster
David Schmid writes: > David Engster wrote: > >> GNU make will never set the shell from the environment. >> >> I've built wmii on Solaris without problems using >> >> gmake SHELL=/bin/bash > > seeme like using "make SHELL=/bin/bash" ins

[dev] Re: wmii; make with /bin/bash not with /bin/sh

2010-05-20 Thread David Engster
Robert Ransom writes: > On Thu, 20 May 2010 14:51:37 +0200 > David Schmid wrote: >> Measures tried: >> - resetting PATH, since make calls /bin/sh and not sh it is never >> looked up there >> - setting BINSH or SHELL to /bin/bash won't work either. >> - Asking for help at #suckless did not c

[dev] Re: last request for a dev-only list

2009-06-12 Thread David Engster
James PIC writes: > I suggest make an NNTP group for suckless, or open a PHPBB FORUM. A little remark: you can read the mailing list via nntp through Gmane (gmane.comp.window-managers.wmii). Actually, that's what I do right now, and every good News reader allows you to kill threads based on the r