Re: [dev] some wmiirc scripts

2012-03-18 Thread John Matthewman
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Anh Hai Trinh wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm sharing some simple rc scripts for wmii, notably to manage status > bars using separate processes and also a search+goto-window script. > > It's at: https://github.com/aht/wmiirc > > > P.S. Looking at http://wmii.suckless.org

Re: [dev] One Border is Not Enough

2012-01-15 Thread John Matthewman
On 1/15/12, Bastien Dejean wrote: > Florian Limberger: > >> This is more likely a problem of your colorscheme, for example my >> active border is #ff9900, which is very unlikely to be the background >> color of any window. > > No: this is more likely a general design problem as stated in my > orig

Re: [dev] wmii falling out of favor

2012-01-08 Thread John Matthewman
On 1/9/12, Thomas Dahms wrote: > 2012/1/8 John Matthewman : >> I would like a window manager that has wmii's acme-like window >> management, but without the 9P filesystem, wmiir, support for >> configuration via python, ruby, etc. Trim the fat off of it (or >> p

Re: [dev] wmii falling out of favor

2012-01-08 Thread John Matthewman
On 1/8/12, Anselm R Garbe wrote: > Someone could implement a stacked mode patch for dwm based on two > extra windows (similar to the dwm bar) per column -- wouldn't be too > hard. I would like a window manager that has wmii's acme-like window management, but without the 9P filesystem, wmiir, supp

Re: [dev] monsterwm - 700 SLOC dwm fork

2011-12-31 Thread John Matthewman
On 12/31/11, Manolo Martínez wrote: > On 12/30/11 at 03:35pm, Kurt H Maier wrote: >> I love arch linux's facility for coralling all the nitwits into one >> self-contained forum. It just sucks when some of the retardation leaks >> out into the real world. >> >> I think it would be better if it wer

Re: [dev] Simple application launcher?

2011-06-30 Thread John Matthewman
On 7/1/11, Christoph Lohmann <2...@r-36.net> wrote: > Hello, > > pancake wrote: >> - the thingmenu fails to handle menus with no ':' if you do something >> like: >> >> $ thingmenu firefox xterm gedit >> >> clicking on any menu results in executing an uninitialized buffer because >> it >> should be:

[dev] Simple application launcher?

2011-06-30 Thread John Matthewman
Can anybody recommend a simple point-and-click application launcher for X? dmenu works nicely as a general purpose menu, but there are a select few applications I use routinely that I'd like to be able to click a button to open whenever needed. It would be handy to have a little launcher sitting at

Re: [dev] Experimental editor

2011-06-27 Thread John Matthewman
On 6/25/11, Connor Lane Smith wrote: > Progress update. You can edit things, but we don't have the B-tree in > place yet, so I'm mostly working on the peripherals. I'll set up a > repo very soon, though aside from my UTF-8 and display abstraction > library I have little to show, yet. > > Here's a

Re: [dev] Suckless Smartphone?

2011-06-06 Thread John Matthewman
On 6/7/11, Yue Wu wrote: > Smartphone has another function that hardly can be replaced by other > tools: note taking. Pen and paper aren't convenient for processing into > digital. For this purpose, I think Palm treo series is the best. I would much rather keep a small notebook and pen with me fo

Re: [dev] Suckless Smartphone?

2011-06-06 Thread John Matthewman
On 6/6/11, ilf wrote: > I actually only want a Browser and a usable Terminal with an SSH-Client. Well there's your problem. Save your money and get a dumbphone -- like, maybe one of the cheapest models of Nokia candy-bar-shaped phones -- and then use a computer for the browser and terminal. Netbo

Re: [dev] Distribution

2011-06-03 Thread John Matthewman
On 6/3/11, Sir Cyrus wrote: > What's the most suckless Linux distribution? Maybe slackware? Arch is loaded with suck. While debian (stable) is definitely not what most -- if not all? -- people would describe as suckless, it is what I use on my computer. John PS: as somebody else said, this di

Re: [dev] Sandy editor

2011-06-02 Thread John Matthewman
On 6/2/11, Rafa Garcia Gallego wrote: > - Most "normal" editors *do* have a slight modality (e.g. replace > instead of insert, etc). Sandy does have a different behavior when > selecting text vs. when moving, but it is bearable and IMHO it does no > lead to confussion. Some questions: do we want t

Re: [dev] Sandy editor

2011-06-01 Thread John Matthewman
On 6/1/11, pancake wrote: > and this is why im telling why modal editor is necessary if we dont want > to fall into a emacs-like hell. I wouldn't go so far as to say that it's necessary -- or that not going modal will result in falling into an Emacs-like hell. Isn't the goal a simple, little edit

Re: [dev] Sandy editor

2011-05-30 Thread John Matthewman
On 5/29/11, Rafa Garcia Gallego wrote: > Thinking about a couple of issues now: > > 1.- The regexes used for syntax highlight relied on a GNU extension > (\< \> to mark word boundaries). We changed those to \b, which is the > POSIX equivalent, but some testing has determied this does not work in >

Re: [dev] Sandy editor

2011-05-26 Thread John Matthewman
Hi there - I had been looking for a simple little editor for a while. Thanks for sharing. On 5/27/11, Rafa Garcia Gallego wrote: > That is indeed a great idea. I'll try to stick with the UNIX defaults, > fill in with Emacs when in doubt and remove META when possible. Yea, probably a good idea (o

Re: [dev] which minimal os

2011-02-17 Thread John Matthewman
On 2/17/11, Benoit Chesneau wrote: > Funny how people can't answer to simple feedback these days. I was > looking for experience sharing but it seems this ml was the wrong > place. > > - benoît Ask a stupid question, get a . (I'll let you fill in the blank!) But even if you were asking your

Re: [dev] Using a different rendering engine for surf

2010-10-22 Thread John Matthewman
On 10/22/10, Anselm R Garbe wrote: > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 10:02:00AM +, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: >> I'd like a Surf interface to Dillo or NetSurf, without any JavaScript >> support. You only need to interpret JavaScript on web pages that suck. >> The suckless part of the web is quite usabl

Re: [dev] [OT] Any suckless color picker is recommended?

2010-10-14 Thread John Matthewman
On 10/15/10, Yue Wu wrote: > Hi list, > > I want to use color code to describe color, but I just can recorgnize the > color, don't know anything about colorcode, is there any recommended > suckless color picker that can let me choise a color then return a color > code? > > -- > Regards, > Yue Wu

[surf] line of approach [was: [dev] [surf] download images?]

2010-05-17 Thread John Matthewman
On 5/17/10, julien steinhauser wrote: > > I guess you have good reasons to have your own context menu, > but the default gtk one with the underlined letters > is keyboard friendlier to me as one just need to hit > the underlined letter to select an entry. I've been wondering about the context men