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

2011-04-20 Thread Steve Ryan
On 04/20/2011 10:27 AM, Eitan Goldshtrom wrote: Hi Everyone, So I started using wmii a couple months ago. It was the first time I wasn't using GNOME and it's default stuff and I did so because a friend recommended wmii to me. So now I want to know what you all think. Why are dwm and wmii bette

Re: [dev] [wmii] Chromium always starts as a floating window

2011-04-13 Thread Steve Ryan
On 03/17/2011 12:54 PM, Aaron Lindsay wrote: Hi all, I'm using wmii under Arch, and have found that whenever I start Chromium (version 10.0.648.133) (whether by Mod-p or by command line) it is spawned as a floating window in wmii. I have installed both the default from the Arch package repositor

Re: [dev] [wmii] Chromium always starts as a floating window

2011-04-13 Thread Steve Ryan
On 03/17/2011 12:54 PM, Aaron Lindsay wrote: Hi all, I'm using wmii under Arch, and have found that whenever I start Chromium (version 10.0.648.133) (whether by Mod-p or by command line) it is spawned as a floating window in wmii. I have installed both the default from the Arch package repositor

Re: [dev] Not Using a Window Manager?

2011-03-02 Thread Steve Ryan
Does it really matter whether it's ideal or not? Ideal is such a relative term after all. Some people might find it ideal, some not. I think it's an interesting hack, but (no offence to Patrick of course) not ideal for me. However, I still am in full support of the continued development of this

Re: [dev] Not Using a Window Manager?

2011-02-26 Thread Steve Ryan
On 02/26/2011 02:05 PM, Anders Andersson wrote: On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Steve Ryan wrote: On 02/26/2011 01:03 PM, Jacob Todd wrote: What you seem to get is a shot in the foot. Why do you say that? It seems pretty interesting to me. -Steve Seeing someone shoot himself in the foot

Re: [dev] Not Using a Window Manager?

2011-02-26 Thread Steve Ryan
On 02/26/2011 01:03 PM, Jacob Todd wrote: What you seem to get is a shot in the foot. On Feb 26, 2011 12:07 PM, "Patrick Haller" <201009-suckl...@haller.ws > wrote: > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 11:17:50AM -0500, Kurt H Maier wrote: >> Precisely what value do you

Re: [dev] Not Using a Window Manager?

2011-02-26 Thread Steve Ryan
On 02/26/2011 11:10 AM, Patrick Haller wrote: unmapped windows => xdotool search stupid_window windowmap mapped not viewable => xdotool search stupid_window windowmove 0 0 I keep a stack of unmapped windows (especially for surf, which i open unmapped), managed via the script be

Re: [dev] wmii: Tagging from .wmiirc not working

2011-02-22 Thread Steve Ryan
Oops, had the history backwards. /tagrules was removed in favor of /rules. In wmii 3.6 (not using hg version here at work) your Thunderbird rule works okay for me. (Had to use sel+web instead of +web to get it to also show up on the current tag.) Based on the wmii(1) manpage from the hg v

Re: [dev] wmii: Tagging from .wmiirc not working

2011-02-22 Thread Steve Ryan
On 02/22/2011 12:40 PM, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Steve Ryan wrote: Hello all, I just downloaded wmii the other day and have been so far loving it. Dynamic tagging is a wonderful idea! However, I've had one main problem. Using the default sh version of .wmii

[dev] wmii: Tagging from .wmiirc not working

2011-02-22 Thread Steve Ryan
Hello all, I just downloaded wmii the other day and have been so far loving it. Dynamic tagging is a wonderful idea! However, I've had one main problem. Using the default sh version of .wmiirc, I haven't been able to get it so that when I run, say, Thunderbird it's automatically tagged 'we