Re: [dev] [dwm] window title shows as "broken"

2013-03-06 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:12:21 +1300 Pablo Perez wrote: > On 03/12/12, Anselm R Garbe wrote: > > On 3 December 2012 03:07, Pablo Perez wrote: > > > I was wondering if someone could shed some light on a problem I have. > > > > > > The bar is not showing the name of the window. Instead is showing "b

Re: [dev] [suckless] Migration to git

2012-12-03 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:08:56 +0100 "Roberto E. Vargas Caballero" wrote: > It is due to git keeps the api in small programs than you could use in your > scripts. These small programs are 100% Unix philosophy (do only one thing and > do it fine, write an output that can be used as input for other,

Re: [dev] Minimal distributions

2012-12-03 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Sat, 1 Dec 2012 13:50:04 +0100 Hugues Moretto-Viry wrote: > Thank you for these many interesting comments. > I was looking for a secondary distributions for desktop usage. And I will > try FreeBSD soon. > > Regards. minimal or desktop... i could almost say 'pick one'. the catch is 'desktop'

Re: [dev] Hall of shame of the web

2012-11-17 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 00:25:16 +0200 Marc Weber wrote: > resources * expected_users => waste of energy > > Thus you should also take into account how often a site is actually > viewed by users. > > Best would be making browsers show a "this page is going to drawn your > battery soon" hints .. >

Re: Sta.li critical performance question (WAS [dev] obase - Sta.li moving forward?)

2012-06-11 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Fri, 8 Jun 2012 09:23:16 -0500 Strake wrote: > On 08/06/2012, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > > On the linked page, Johan Petersson wrote: > > > >> It turns out, though, that system calls invoked via interrupts are > >> remarkably slow on the more recent members

Sta.li critical performance question (WAS [dev] obase - Sta.li moving forward?)

2012-06-08 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 07:48:56 -0500 Strake wrote: > The first is not a file, but rather code kept in the kernel and loaded > in the memory space of every proc on the system. > > http://www.trilithium.com/johan/2005/08/linux-gate/ > > Thus, it ought to not make grief, in this way at least. > Clear

Re: [dev] [dwm] dynamic environment variables

2012-05-19 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Sat, 19 May 2012 17:37:53 +0100 Connor Lane Smith wrote: > On 19 May 2012 17:36, Connor Lane Smith wrote: > > It wouldn't be a perfect solution, but you could just alter your dwm > > cmd functions to call a script which set the environment correctly and > > then execs the given command. > >

Re: [dev] about patch xft on FreeBSD

2012-05-13 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
eliable way to get a default font, but I guess it's not too terrible a problem to have. > > On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Ethan Grammatikidis > wrote: > > > On Sat, 5 May 2012 20:22:57 -0400 > > Lee Fallat wrote:w > > > > > fix dwm so if it can't

Re: [dev] [dwm] X autologin and startup applications

2012-05-13 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Sun, 6 May 2012 22:49:17 -0700 Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > So the questions are: > 1. Is there a better way to accomplish X autologin? Preferrably without > installing a login manager. I don't know about "better", sanity in this situation is probably completely incompatible with any remo

Re: [dev] about patch xft on FreeBSD

2012-05-13 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Sat, 5 May 2012 20:22:57 -0400 Lee Fallat wrote: > fix dwm so if it can't find the font it'll load some default one that's fixed. Everything falls back to fixed which is an alias expected to be present on every X server.

Re: [dev] Adding "good" xterm support to st

2012-05-05 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Sat, 5 May 2012 15:52:24 -0400 Andrew Hills wrote: > On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Ethan Grammatikidis > wrote: > > Maybe I should just run Debian. > > Or maybe you just shouldn't use libvterm... Maybe! =D > > Here's a mirror of whatever bzr checks

Re: [dev] Adding "good" xterm support to st

2012-05-05 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Sat, 5 May 2012 14:33:47 -0400 Andrew Hills wrote: > $ bzr clone http://bazaar.leonerd.org.uk/c/libvterm > $ cd libvterm > $ ls > LICENSE Makefile doc include src t tbl2inc_c.pl vterm.pc.in > $ ls src > encodinginput.c pen.c screen.c unicode.c vterm.c > encoding.c parser.c r

Re: [dev] Adding "good" xterm support to st

2012-05-05 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:25:49 -0400 Philip Kovac wrote: > Regarding one of the goals of 'st,' would the suckless crowd be > interested in resolving the current admitted shortcomings of 'st' by > rolling in a fairly tiny library called libvterm (bzr repo at > http://bazaar.leonerd.org.uk/c/libvterm

[dev] Simplest WM?

2012-03-22 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
Wasn't there a window manager even simpler than DWM somewhere on suckless.org? I'm looking for a base to build a little mouse-controlled one-view WM on. I could use my own work from 5 years ago, but that's in Python...

Re: [dev] st bug report and feature request

2011-10-08 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Sat, 8 Oct 2011 15:06:25 +0200 Aurélien Aptel wrote: > The only previous > experience I had in this was SDL_ttf on one of my pet project, which > is ridiculously simple and straightforward to use albeit not very fast > I guess. It's meant for games, it may well be as quick as they can make it

Re: [dev] Make dmenu sensitive to user aliases ("Hello world")

2011-10-02 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Mon, 3 Oct 2011 08:05:26 +0800 Patrick Haller <201009-suckl...@haller.ws> wrote: > On 2011-10-02 22:52, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > > On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 21:55:56 +0300 > > "Kiriakos at Kindstudios" wrote: > > > > > Hi there, > > > &

Re: [dev] Make dmenu sensitive to user aliases ("Hello world")

2011-10-02 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 21:55:56 +0300 "Kiriakos at Kindstudios" wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm using many aliases in my terminal sessions and want to be able to use > them with dmenu > (which I use as the default menu in all of my xmonad installations) aswell. > > Is that possible? I haven't gotten

Re: [dev] Re: Suckless sh [Was: Re: New utility]

2011-09-26 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:47:58 + Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > >> rc's redirection syntax is remarkably clean and powerful, but it > >> shouldn't be very hard to hack "2>&1" support in there if you don't want > >> to use ">[2=1]". > > > > Actually I find rc's way less annoying than bash's but the

Re: [dev] Re: Suckless sh [Was: Re: New utility]

2011-09-25 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 20:17:23 +0200 Christian Neukirchen wrote: > Ethan Grammatikidis writes: > > > It's redirection and the behaviour of cp & mv when the last arg is a > > dir that bother me, in rc. > > What has the behavior of cp and mv to do with the shell

Re: Suckless sh [Was: Re: [dev] New utility]

2011-09-25 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 15:33:51 +0200 Jens Staal wrote: > 2011/9/25 Ethan Grammatikidis : > > On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:07:52 +0200 > > Christoph Lohmann <2...@r-36.net> wrote: > ... > > There are only two implementations of rc that I know of, and one is > > brain-

Re: Suckless sh [Was: Re: [dev] New utility]

2011-09-25 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:07:52 +0200 Christoph Lohmann <2...@r-36.net> wrote: > Comments and ideas for an sh alternative, which sucks less, are > welcome. I forgot to mention that I often think something about the shell could be smoother but I can never put my finger on what. Also this: 11:52:05

Re: Suckless sh [Was: Re: [dev] New utility]

2011-09-25 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:07:52 +0200 Christoph Lohmann <2...@r-36.net> wrote: > All we need is a better syntax for sh, > This > should be doable in the size of dash. Rc does not fit very well, > because it is missing mass adoption and has some ugliness in the > various implementations across Plan 9

Re: [dev] Futaba Linux

2011-09-21 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 20:24:08 +0100 Sir Cyrus wrote: > Thought a few of you might be interested in this: > http://alrig.ht/newfutaba.html > Looks much less irritating than most distros if you can get on with busybox. I'd probably be very happy with it if 9base compiles as I hardly bother with po

Re: [dev] New hardware migration

2011-09-04 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 12:11:31 +0200 Anselm R Garbe wrote: > > As I understand it, it moved to Google Code some time ago: > > http://code.google.com/p/wmii/ > > Well the code is there and an issue tracker exists. But it refers to > wmii.suckless.org for everything else. So either wmii stays at > s

Re: [dev] New hardware migration

2011-09-04 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 13:30:33 +0200 hiro <23h...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I don't own the xmessage program, so I don't get popup > windows. Hilarious.

Re: [dev] [wmii] window titlebar right-click menu - item order

2011-08-11 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:45:53 -0400 Bryan Bennett wrote: > > Oh this old thing. dwm could use an fwvm-style > > "Close" which sends a delete if the window supports > > it, otherwise sends a kill, thus hiding a particularly > > ugly part of X. > > Maybe so, but I fail to see how this relates to th

Re: [dev] [wmii] window titlebar right-click menu - item order

2011-08-10 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 23:24:54 +0100 Connor Lane Smith wrote: > On 10 August 2011 23:10, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > > Oh this old thing. dwm could use an fwvm-style "Close" which sends a delete > > if the window supports it, otherwise sends a kill, thus hiding a >

Re: [dev] [wmii] window titlebar right-click menu - item order

2011-08-10 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:15:51 +0200 Gidon Ernst wrote: > Hi, > > recently the order of items > [Delete, Kill, Fullscreen] > in the menu that appears when right-clicking on a window's titlebar > changed to > [Kill, Delete, Fullscreen] Oh this old thing. dwm could use an fwvm-style "C

Re: [dev] [wmii] Flash in fullscreen regularly freezes screen

2011-08-06 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Sat, 6 Aug 2011 09:19:24 +0100 Rob wrote: > On 5 August 2011 17:39, Kris Maglione wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 09:31:40AM -0700, Suraj Kurapati wrote: > >> # see http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/dky73/ > >> lsof -p $(pgrep -f libflashplayer) | grep /tmp/Flash | > >> awk '{print "/

Re: [dev] [wmii] Flash in fullscreen regularly freezes screen

2011-08-05 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 16:32:40 -0400 Kris Maglione wrote: > >> For what it's worth, I've never had compositing enabled and > >> still no problem. > >> > >> %uname -a > >> Linux kris 2.6.38-bfs #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Apr 14 22:31:00 EDT 2011 x86_64 > >> AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor TK-55 A

Re: [dev] [wmii] Flash in fullscreen regularly freezes screen

2011-08-05 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 14:39:23 +0200 Eckehard Berns wrote: > I also have encountered freezes with fullscreen flash video playback (I > haven't tested something other than youtube). I noticed that I didn't > encounter those freezes when using compositing. Thus I simply added a > "xcompmgr &" to my .x

Re: [dev] [dwm] layers

2011-08-05 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 15:03:21 +0200 hiro <23h...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Yeah, I'm convinced it's all about German nature. > "destroying tags": I guess if you cycle through tags/views you don't > want to waste your time with empty ones > Oh aye... well that could be implemented with a "cycle throu

Re: [dev] [wmii] Flash in fullscreen regularly freezes screen

2011-08-05 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 00:37:52 +0200 dtk wrote: > > Hey guys, > > putting the flash player on a website into fullscreen regularly (very > -.-) freezes my screen. I think it's a Linux kernel problem. I have the same with kernel 2.6.39 with an Intel 945GME, and i use WindowMaker. I can't downgrade

Re: [dev] [dwm] layers

2011-08-05 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Thu, 4 Aug 2011 21:56:00 +0100 Connor Lane Smith wrote: > I don't get everyone's obsession with "destroying tags". That and a lot of other things which don't need to be cleaned up or optimized. I think it relates to a tidying-up obsession, myself. I suspect there's a logical fallacy at the bo

Re: [dev] [st] shift-insert patch (more general: key.mask and state)

2011-08-01 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 15:52:37 +0400 anonymous wrote: > On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 03:34:46PM +0400, anonymous wrote: > > Maybe it can be adopted for dwm so we would be able to remove this > > CLEANMASK macro. > > Patch is attached. Maybe I missed something because I don't understand > what numlockma

Re: [dev] color-scheme

2011-07-28 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 18:22:58 +0200 ilf wrote: > What's your favorite color-scheme? I just came across this one: > http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized I've been playing a puzzle game which uses this scheme for partial solutions. I had to change the yellow because it made me want to hurl when u

Re: [dev] macos settings to use wmii in X11

2011-07-28 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
You'll see error messages if you start Console.app. You may need to open a different log file, but I don't think you will. On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 05:40:14 +0100 (BST) Jhonny Boy wrote: > my ~/.xinitrc must contains : > «xterm & > export PATH="/opt/local/bin:$PATH" > exec /opt/local/bin/wmii» > >

Re: [dev] [dwm] sloppy focus

2011-07-04 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 18:16:48 +0200 garbeam wrote: > Well, dwm had focus follows mouse since its first minute. I'm not going to > change this when it is approaching the age of 5 tomorrow. I have the opposite problem to the OP. DWM sometimes does some clever focusing stuff which doesn't depend on

Re: [dev] [dwm] sloppy focus

2011-07-04 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 13:46:20 -0400 (EDT) "Benjamin R. Haskell" wrote: > That said, what do people here use for IRC and how do you deal with it > in dwm? Without a systray, I don't understand where one gets the spare > screen real estate to dedicate to IRC. And w/o dedicated space for it, > I

Re: [dev] ideas on suckless file manager

2011-07-04 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 15:23:05 +0200 Pieter Praet wrote: > On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 14:55:38 +0200, hiro <23h...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Most people getting eye problems in front of the computer are caused > > by the concentrated day-long staring without blinking once. > > ^ Also rather influential.

Re: [dev] How to monitor battery status

2011-07-04 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 06:47:35 -0400 Kurt H Maier wrote: > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 5:59 AM, ilf wrote: > > I have done this the /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state | shell way for years and > > found it to be way more resource intense then calling acpi -b. > > > > Let's face it, the Shell/Perl/Python/wh

Re: [dev] [st] mutt and cursor

2011-07-04 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 06:34:03 +0400 anonymous wrote: > Since revision 202 cursor is hidden after I quit from mutt. If I do > "update 201", everything is ok. I don't know how to fix it right way. > > Also "reset" command don't help, cursor is still hidden. Is it a bug? > > http://hg.suckless.or

Re: [dev] ideas on suckless file manager

2011-07-04 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 22:23:03 +0200 pancake wrote: > Also crt and lcd/tft screens have differet brightness effects. Tft are less > damaging to eyes than crt.. So i think discussion about colors on text moved > to only stethical and personal issue because its no longer dramatic as it was > in th

Re: [dev] Re: Cleanup of (hg.)suckless.org

2011-07-04 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:28:06 +0200 hiro <23h...@googlemail.com> wrote: > He's deep into troll recruiting too. > Everyone on this list seems to have learned how to troll on a wholly > different level. Different to catch and way more fun. > Yay for the crusade against Technical arguments. If it's s

Re: [dev] revolution

2011-06-12 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 12:45:32 + Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > On 6/12/11, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 07:45:11 -0400 > > An astonishingly large proportion of people go through a phase of promoting > > something beyond all reason at some point

Re: [dev] revolution

2011-06-11 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 07:45:11 -0400 Kurt H Maier wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 6:56 AM, Le Tian wrote: > > I did it, because just recently have met a guy, who was insisting that > > it is better because this and that. > > And now you know: that guy was either an idiot or a troll. You are >

Re: [dev] ideas on suckless file manager

2011-06-11 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 01:45:54 +0200 hiro <23h...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I like his rationale. pre-aliasing and neuro-aliasing come to mind, > but idiotic as it might sound the only technically clear term is > really "not antialiased". > > I guess I (we?) should get a life :D Probably. :D I like

Re: [dev] [st] alternate screen switching

2011-06-09 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Thu, 9 Jun 2011 12:37:32 +0200 Bert Münnich wrote: > I'm not sure about the "exporting" thing. If there's one thing I've > learned from writing url-select [1], it's that a lot of URLs get line > wrapped inside curses-based applications (e.g. mcabber, irssi, weechat, > vim, newsbeuter, mutt)

Re: [dev] ideas on suckless file manager

2011-06-09 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Thu, 9 Jun 2011 13:55:30 +0100 Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > On Thu, 9 Jun 2011 14:50:53 +0200 > hiro <23h...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > The Tamsyn guy says it's an "aliased font". What does it mean? > > It's not, but it has some overlap in

Re: [dev] ideas on suckless file manager

2011-06-09 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Thu, 9 Jun 2011 14:50:53 +0200 hiro <23h...@googlemail.com> wrote: > The Tamsyn guy says it's an "aliased font". What does it mean? It's not, but it has some overlap in places which makes it look smoother.

Re: [dev] st - XEmbed patch

2011-06-08 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 15:56:51 -0700 nodus cursorius wrote: > I can not reproduce this bug. Please list the steps needed to reproduce. Does it affect entry or just the cursor style? Asking because most terminals won't show the focused-style cursor under X without a WM. XTerm supports embedding wi

Re: [dev] ideas on suckless file manager

2011-06-08 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 21:47:02 +0100 Connor Lane Smith wrote: > On 8 June 2011 21:39, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > > Incidentally, I compared executable sizes of curl wget and p9p hget the > > other day, finding hget to be larger than curl. Maybe it's the p9p libs, > >

Re: [dev] ideas on suckless file manager

2011-06-08 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 13:50:14 -0700 "Suraj N. Kurapati" wrote: > On Wed 08 Jun 2011 09:26:08 PM PDT, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > > On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 19:09:25 +0200 pancake wrote: > > > White background terminals harm my eyes. > > > > > > I cant th

Re: [dev] ideas on suckless file manager

2011-06-08 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 09:52:23 +0100 Nick wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 01:09:38AM +0100, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > > It's also good for unpacking archives, I much prefer its zoom-to-unpack to > > mucking about with tar (or especially zip,) although it's not as cle

Re: [dev] ideas on suckless file manager

2011-06-08 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 19:09:25 +0200 pancake wrote: > White background terminals harm my eyes. > > I cant think on anybody spending lot of time on a white background terminal. > Its anti natural. I've been through a lot of (old) screens and I have to say it depends on screen and font. Still, I

Re: [dev] ideas on suckless file manager

2011-06-07 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 16:13:28 +0100 Rob wrote: > I like rox, I used to use thunar but it stopped loading thumbnails, > which is the only reason I use a file manager, so I switched. IMO, rox > without all the desktop-panel extras is good enough. When not looking at > thumbnails though, coreutils do

Re: [dev] Suckless Smartphone?

2011-06-07 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 13:31:58 +0100 David Tweed wrote: > The point is that a cheap phone and cheap tablet DOESN'T fit what I > need to do at the moment. I don't need a big screen at the moment just > a temporary 3G data plan (so taht that I can access info and services > in the middle of nowhere) w

Re: [dev] Suckless Smartphone?

2011-06-07 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 12:45:24 +0100 Guilherme Lino wrote: > you could try a cheap phone and a cheap tablet > and personally a person that spends more than a hour a on facebook doing > "stuff"(talk to friends doesn't count) must have some kind of problem The best communication setup I ever had was

Re: [dev] Suckless Smartphone?

2011-06-07 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 12:45:10 +0100 Nick wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 12:39:53PM +0100, Guilherme Lino wrote: > > never tried it, but i would like to. And i really support the idea because > > there more trees falling in a day than growing in a year.. > > I'm pretty sure if you make a case for

Re: [dev] PATCH for/back navigation with xprop

2011-06-06 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 01:14:05 +0100 Connor Lane Smith wrote: > Trouble is, finding that something else is difficult. That I can agree with. ^^

Re: [dev] [PATCH] [lsw] Create manpage directory if it's not there

2011-06-06 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Mon, 6 Jun 2011 18:42:20 +0200 Petr Sabata wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 04:36:24PM +0100, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > > On Mon, 6 Jun 2011 10:35:56 +0200 > > Petr Sabata wrote: > > > > > + @mkdir -p ${DESTDIR}${MANPREFIX}/man1 > > > >

Re: [dev] PATCH for/back navigation with xprop

2011-06-06 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Fri, 3 Jun 2011 23:16:49 + Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > It's just that I believe spawning processes and creating windows > should be dirt cheap operations. Optimally, almost nothing should be > done in those functions. With Gtk+ 2.OMGWANTMOARBLOAT invading computers everywhere, your belief

Re: [dev] run a program and display on a specific tab

2011-06-06 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Mon, 6 Jun 2011 10:04:57 -0400 Kurt H Maier wrote: > > It's more complicated as xterms are on many tags > > Window class is not the only thing tags can use. Even if it was, xterms have more than one way to set window class. -T was always my favourite.

Re: [dev] [PATCH] [lsw] Create manpage directory if it's not there

2011-06-06 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Mon, 6 Jun 2011 10:35:56 +0200 Petr Sabata wrote: > + @mkdir -p ${DESTDIR}${MANPREFIX}/man1 This is the sort of thing which has people symlinking man -> share/man or vice versa.

Re: [dev] Distribution

2011-06-06 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 14:50:25 +0200 Pierre Chapuis wrote: > On Fri, 3 Jun 2011 17:01:54 +0100, garbeam wrote: > > On 3 June 2011 12:41, Sir Cyrus wrote: > >> What's the most suckless Linux distribution? > > > > http://bellard.org/jslinux/ > > So the most suckless Linux is a Linux that requires a

Re: [dev] Cleanup of (hg.)suckless.org

2011-06-04 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
> - skvm (dunno, don't get it) ?? I think this mounts removable drives when you plug them in. If not it at least makes a mount point and (I think) adds them to /etc/fstab. It depends on hal and dbus, I'm sure there's no need for that: I can imagine a script doing this job, with the only caveat

Re: [dev] Distribution

2011-06-04 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Sat, 4 Jun 2011 14:14:15 +0200 hiro <23h...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 13:44, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > > On 6/3/11, Sir Cyrus wrote: > >> What's the most suckless Linux distribution? > >> > > The one you made yourself. > > > > > > Too subjective, too much work, sucks.

Re: [dev] PATCH for/back navigation with xprop

2011-06-03 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Fri, 3 Jun 2011 11:32:32 + Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > On 6/3/11, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > > I don't get it... Back & forward are native to the browser, running programs > > is native to any WM of FVWM's era, and app-specific buttons are a native &g

Re: [dev] Distribution

2011-06-03 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Fri, 3 Jun 2011 13:47:49 +0200 pmarin wrote: > Linux ≠ suckless s/Linux/Gnu/ The more I learn about Linux the more I think the real problems are outside the kernel. There are problems within the kernel, of course, but if you have to have a modern unix the Linux kernel at least can at least

Re: [dev] PATCH for/back navigation with xprop

2011-06-03 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Fri, 3 Jun 2011 09:26:57 + Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > On 6/3/11, Jon Bradley wrote: > > Here is a patch I whipped up to add forward/back navigation with xprop. > > I use it to put buttons on the fvwm windows title bar > > of all surf instances. > > > At that point, wouldn't this be bett

Re: ***SPAM*** Re: [dev] suckless wget/curl

2011-05-31 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 29 May 2011, at 12:56 am, Dave Reisner wrote: I'm sure I'll get hated for this, but it's entirely possible to read chunked transfer with shell. I wrote a stupid proof of concept AUR agent in bash which handles keep-alives and chunked/gzip encoded data -- the only other dependencies are dd

Re: [dev] [ANN] sabotage 2011-04-30, a musl+busybox based distribution

2011-05-15 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 13 May 2011, at 9:35 pm, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: On 5/12/11, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: A bit late but I thought it worth mentioning you don't even have to install Opera 11, just untar it and run in situ. I wrote a little script to cd to the highest-versioned dir matching ~/apps/

Re: [dev] [ANN] sabotage 2011-04-30, a musl+busybox based distribution

2011-05-12 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 6 May 2011, at 3:50 pm, Kurt H Maier wrote: On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:47 AM, hiro <23h...@googlemail.com> wrote: Because it's linked in or because it doesn't use it? Because most of it is compiled statically and the bits that are not are shipped in the tarball and installed in-tree. A b

Re: [dev] [ANN] sabotage 2011-04-30, a musl+busybox based distribution

2011-05-04 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 4 May 2011, at 4:27 pm, pancake wrote: i dont see the point of using libglade for the gtk backend... it's just the reason why it depends on libxml and this is probably the main bottleneck for loading the gtk UI... gtk is the main bottleneck for loading the gtk ui. it became an unpleas

Re: [dev][st] Approach to adding -bg colour option to st

2011-04-25 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 25 Apr 2011, at 11:03 am, David Tweed wrote: (As background, I currenlty use a hacked aterm which changes the background colour according to the cwd. Sounds like you want to hack that code into st rather than add options, no? I think that's a curious and interesting feature in its own

Re: [dev] Putting the wmii status bar on the other monitor

2011-04-22 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 19 Apr 2011, at 8:57 pm, Andrew Hills wrote: On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Jan wrote: meh, that sucks. i guess you already tried the radeon driver? Yes, but the radeon driver doesn't support my card. I will try physically swapping the outputs; after that, I'll quit complaining. I'm

Re: [dev] Why dwm or wmii over xmonad, etc., or not?

2011-04-22 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 20 Apr 2011, at 7:20 pm, Andrew Hills wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Kurt H Maier wrote: If a program requires endless configuration, it's a bad program. The program doesn't require it; I do. I thought I did. 10+ years ago I really felt extreme configurability was absolutel

Re: [dev] [st] 0.1 Feedback - Was: A few small patches

2011-04-04 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 4 Apr 2011, at 7:53 pm, Antoni Grzymala wrote: That's why I have the mod4-c shortcut – exactly for turning opera-copied links into a shift-insert insertable selection. Ah, you have mod4-c run something which copies clipboard to selection? There's a little prog in p9p which automatically c

Re: [dev] [st] 0.1 Feedback - Was: A few small patches

2011-04-04 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 4 Apr 2011, at 9:10 am, Antoni Grzymala wrote: In my standard X environment most programs accept the convention, that MMB *and* shift-insert insert the selection, while whichever program supports the clipboard it has some clipboard shortcut (and those two do not overlap). I just tested wit

Re: [dev] [st] 0.1 Feedback - Was: A few small patches

2011-04-04 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 4 Apr 2011, at 2:02 pm, Kurt H Maier wrote: If middlemouse paste sucks on your hardware, buy new hardware. I'm in no hurry to change an efficient paradigm because someone got cheap buying a mouse. (Looking at you here, Ethan!) You were the one who said my laptops have their own pointing

Re: [dev] [st] 0.1 Feedback - Was: A few small patches

2011-04-03 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 3 Apr 2011, at 6:59 pm, ilf wrote: 2. alsamixer(1) behaves horribly. I dunno about anyone else, but alsamixer is one of only 2 curses programs I still use. :} Well, 3 really, I still have to use vi occasionally. 3. I really like urxvt(1)s urlLauncher functionality. Copy+Pasting URL

Re: [dev] Sup and dmc

2011-04-03 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 3 Apr 2011, at 1:37 pm, Džen wrote: I don't know what you guys think, but why not simply return messages which contain a text/html attachment to the sender? Maybe like this people might learn it someday and trash such shitty MUAs... I think some mailing lists do this. Some simply drop all

Re: [dev] [st] bold as bright (again)

2011-04-02 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 2 Apr 2011, at 1:04 pm, pancake wrote: We should start sending mails in ansi. html sucks. You got me searching sixteencolors.net for an ORLY owl in ansi, :p but the only owl I found had all hellfire in the background (and in its eyes). Curiously enough it came from a document announcin

Re: [dev] hgweb typically sucks

2011-04-01 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 1 Apr 2011, at 4:09 pm, pancake wrote: On 04/01/11 16:46, Andreas Amann wrote: On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 04:32:42PM +0200, pancake wrote: we can override those mimetypes to be text/plain so all browsers will display it correctly. Or try https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/ope

Re: [dev] [st] bold as bright (again)

2011-04-01 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 1 Apr 2011, at 3:07 pm, Stefan Mark wrote: On 01.04.2011 16:01, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: On 1 Apr 2011, at 2:56 pm, Stefan Mark wrote: On 01.04.2011 15:50, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: On 1 Apr 2011, at 2:06 pm, pancake wrote: You may see some other differences... and the missuse of

Re: [dev] hgweb typically sucks

2011-04-01 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 1 Apr 2011, at 2:55 pm, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: On 1 Apr 2011, at 2:33 pm, Nick wrote: `curl -I http://hg.suckless.org/stali-toolchain/raw-file/e2f2828820b4/build/ i386-linux-uclibc/include/a.out.h` shows that hg is presenting it to the browser as: Content-Disposition: inline Good

Re: [dev] [st] bold as bright (again)

2011-04-01 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 1 Apr 2011, at 2:56 pm, Stefan Mark wrote: On 01.04.2011 15:50, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: On 1 Apr 2011, at 2:06 pm, pancake wrote: You may see some other differences... and the missuse of bright when bold sometimes hurts my eyes... but some programs just are hard to read without it

Re: [dev] hgweb typically sucks

2011-04-01 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 1 Apr 2011, at 2:15 pm, Sean Howard wrote: Firefox reads it just fine. I get the .c in the browser. What web browser are you using? Firefox... Version 3.6.3 to be exact, packaged by Slackware. What version are you using, and what OS or distro? Also - the point of a web browser is t

Re: [dev] hgweb typically sucks

2011-04-01 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 1 Apr 2011, at 2:33 pm, Nick wrote: `curl -I http://hg.suckless.org/stali-toolchain/raw-file/e2f2828820b4/build/ i386-linux-uclibc/include/a.out.h` shows that hg is presenting it to the browser as: Content-Disposition: inline Good gracious! I assumed it was 'download' rather than 'inline

Re: [dev] [st] bold as bright (again)

2011-04-01 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 1 Apr 2011, at 2:06 pm, pancake wrote: You may see some other differences... and the missuse of bright when bold sometimes hurts my eyes... but some programs just are hard to read without it... Why does no-one ever seem to consider just not using programs which are broken this badly

Re: [dev] Sup and dmc

2011-03-31 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 1 Apr 2011, at 3:19 am, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: On Fri, 1 Apr 2011, hiro wrote: I just looked at the source and what is this shit?!?! Yikes. I thought hiro was overreacting, until I looked at the source of the HTML MIME part. Wow. That's "Office"-grade shit. Horribly verbose,

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

2011-03-31 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 1 Apr 2011, at 3:04 am, hiro wrote: Just play a few rounds of counter-strike against touchpad losers. That will convince them... I also really love to play DOOM 1 with one finger (only the trackpoint, even for movement). People wouldn't believe it's live :) Haha, yeah, I never thought abou

[dev] hgweb typically sucks

2011-03-31 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
Looking at the list of "other projects" on suckless.org some catch my eye, so I click on them & get taken to a hgweb site. Okay, no problem so far, so I click on a file, micy's micy.c for example. Between the syntax highlighting and the crazy two-tone background my old eyes can't read it so

Re: [dev] @bleidl, 26/03/11 19:41

2011-03-31 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 30 Mar 2011, at 1:36 pm, v4hn wrote: On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 02:36:00PM -0400, Josh Rickmar wrote: identi.ca (free and distributed) works reasonably well, It's a working alternative to twitter. but is unfortunately overloaded with gnu freetards. If you think that's true, change that b

Re: [dev] [surf] browser identification

2011-03-31 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 25 Mar 2011, at 3:15 pm, Swiatoslaw Gal wrote: Hi, imbeciles coding sucking webpages check how the browser identifies itself. And if it is not sucking browser instead of desired content I get some ad about downloading sucking software. All I can check is for example aruljohn.com which t

Re: [dev] wmii: sticky windows and xinerama

2011-03-31 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 25 Mar 2011, at 5:18 am, Gmail wrote: I'm trying to get a window to remain sticky based on whether it is moved onto a secondary display or not. Ideally it would be advantageous to move documentation, irc, etc to this monitor and have them stick there regardless of tag. I'm not sure i

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

2011-03-31 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 18 Mar 2011, at 9:23 am, Anselm R Garbe wrote: Hi there, 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? I tried different approaches so far, but all are really PITA. The only approach I can envision is running

Re: [dev] which minimal os

2011-02-17 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 19:33 -0700, "Michael Farnbach" wrote: > As with most answers, this one depends on a few things... > >3. You can run the answers for #2 for this, or the full distros that >they >come from in a minimal mode. But for "stay out of the way" while >running the >

Re: [dev] A Suckless Filesystem

2011-02-17 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 17:06 -0500, "Brandon LaRocque" wrote: > Which one do you use? Why do you use it? What does it have that the > others don't? For USB storage and bootloader partitions I've reverted to FAT, on the one because I got fed up with keeping UIDs in sync across multiple machines & on

Re: [dev] Remount rootfs sync on impending battery depletion.

2010-12-22 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 22 Dec 2010, at 11:54 pm, Antoni Grzymala wrote: Ethan Grammatikidis dixit (2010-12-22, 23:02): On 20 Dec 2010, at 6:56 pm, hiro wrote: Ever heard of setuid root?? I thought this was supposed to be a script? The Linux kernel prevents the SUID bit from taking effect on scripts "be

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