Re: [dev] wmii falling out of favor

2012-01-08 Thread Thomas Dahms
rsions of that patch, make sure to search the old d...@suckless.org mailing list archives for the latest one. [1] http://lists.suckless.org/dwm/0808/6435.html -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] [wmii] Dualhead + tiling

2011-11-15 Thread Thomas Dahms
2011/11/15 Jonas H. : > > What's that "Xinerama support" that came with 3.9 then? It is Xinerama. One view just includes both monitors. That is different from dwm and other window managers, but not necessarily worse. -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] [wmii] Dualhead + tiling

2011-11-15 Thread Thomas Dahms
setup right now is that it's moved back to > monitor 0.) wmii spans the tiling area over all monitors, but managed columns end at screen boundaries. -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] Some 2wm questions

2011-11-01 Thread Thomas Dahms
2011/11/1 Thomas Dahms : > 2011/11/1 Bert Münnich : >> On 01.11.11, Connor Lane Smith wrote: >>> I notice this patch doesn't have an attach (M-a) to accompany detach >>> (M-d). Is this a bug or a feature? >> >> It's a feature. I've used atta

Re: [dev] Some 2wm questions

2011-11-01 Thread Thomas Dahms
; the other tag temporarily, use detach (toggletag) on the clients I want > to detach and switch back. Your patch is quite a bit different than 2wm. 2wm has only one view. Your patch looks more like dwm limited to two tags. -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] Re: [dwm] A general approach to master-slave layouts

2011-10-31 Thread Thomas Dahms
tion: I guess you can get rid of the functions combining the master and slave layouts by modifying setlayout() to take three arguments (the two layouts and the direction of master/slave splitting). This way you could combine any two layouts in the key binding section of config.h. -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] [dwm] ncol layout

2011-10-31 Thread Thomas Dahms
ncol layout that I use has columns in the master area and rows in the slave area. > > Then we could probably come up with a good compromise in mainline. > > Cheers, > Anselm > > -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] [dwm] ncol layout

2011-10-31 Thread Thomas Dahms
about some people using ntile (rows in master area) and some using ncol (columns in master area)? Half of the users would have to patch, I guess. -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] [dwm] ncol layout

2011-10-31 Thread Thomas Dahms
ith nmaster=2 most of the time. On small screens I use nmaster=1 (which is equivalent to standard tile). That said, I have no problem with patching ncol in, no need to have it in mainline. I think others may not want it and layouts should be in mainline only when a majority of users actually uses them. -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] [dwm] ncol layout

2011-10-29 Thread Thomas Dahms
6:10 or even 16:9) becoming mainstream. -- Thomas Dahms

[dev] [dwm] ncol layout

2011-10-26 Thread Thomas Dahms
Hi list, with nmaster becoming mainstream (again), what was known as the nmaster-ncol patch can also be simplified a lot. Attached file provides a layout that arranges clients in columns in the master area. Maybe someone finds it useful. -- Thomas Dahms void ncol(Monitor *m) { unsigned int i

Re: [dev] dwm 5.9 small patch for non xinerama users

2011-07-25 Thread Thomas Dahms
inary file size is very little but... > A possible patch is attached... What about prefixing these functions with something like xinerama_? They would then be all after another and a single ifdef would suffice instead of three. -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] exiting dwm correctly

2011-06-29 Thread Thomas Dahms
2011/6/29 ilf : > On 06-28 20:49, Thomas Dahms wrote: >> >> There was a thread about properly terminating the loop that updates your >> status bar [1]. > > We discussed a lot, but did we reach an agreement? Do we have to? > The README part still sais: > >  

Re: [dev] exiting dwm correctly

2011-06-28 Thread Thomas Dahms
ild processes. Otherwise you would kill random processes in the end. [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.misc.suckless/5391 -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] Please test dwm master

2011-06-27 Thread Thomas Dahms
o any application opening dialog windows. -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] wmii

2011-06-25 Thread Thomas Dahms
not hg tip? The hg version uses /etc/wmii-hg and ~/.wmii-hg as configuration paths. -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] wmii

2011-06-25 Thread Thomas Dahms
d you should be happy. -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] wmii

2011-06-24 Thread Thomas Dahms
r-x 1 thomas thomas 7310 24. Jun 22:02 /home/thomas/.wmii/wmiirc > regards Make sure that there is no wmiirc_local with another MODKEY= line in your ~/.wmii directory. -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] wmii - key events are not read unless they are repeated

2011-05-08 Thread Thomas Dahms
ve to keep track of upstream changes to the vanilla wmiirc. -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] [dwm] terminating the status loop

2011-04-27 Thread Thomas Dahms
Hi Andreas, while xsetroot -name "$(date +"%a, %b %d %Y | %H:%M")" do sleep 20 done & exec dwm This is even nicer as the original instance of .xsession is not kept running. -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] [dwm] terminating the status loop

2011-04-27 Thread Thomas Dahms
simplified further: while true; do xsetroot -name ... sleep 1 done & dwm kill $! I wonder whether the README should be updated accordingly. But it is there for years and nobody seemed to notice before. I attach the trivial patch, just in case. -- Thomas D

[dev] [dwm] terminating the status loop

2011-04-27 Thread Thomas Dahms
ite ugly and I am curious if there is a more elegant way to terminate the status loop on logout. -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] [wmii] Ignoring key presses

2011-04-15 Thread Thomas Dahms
make sure that it is not a problem with the sh wmiirc. To do this, use "wmii -r python/wmiirc" in your X init script. Btw, try to not post HTML mails to this list. -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] [wmii] Ignoring key presses

2011-04-15 Thread Thomas Dahms
ng an older wmiirc in ~/.wmii-hg/ might cause the failure. Try with an empty ~/.wmii-hg/ first. If that still does not help, check whether your keys appear in the output of "wmiir read /keys". -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] dwm taskbar config

2011-03-23 Thread Thomas Dahms
ould I create .xinitrc or should I make .dwmrc or else? Just read the README that comes with dwm. It contains an example to use in your .xinitrc. -- Thomas Dahms

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

2011-03-18 Thread Thomas Dahms
maybe, There is really nothing to fix here. -- Thomas Dahms

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

2011-03-18 Thread Thomas Dahms
in very I/O intense operations. You should be aware of an issue in Virtualbox' X driver that affects dwm [1]. [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.misc.suckless/4021 -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] wmii noob key binding help

2011-02-25 Thread Thomas Dahms
tp://code.google.com/p/wmii/issues/detail?id=229 -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] wmii noob key binding help

2011-02-25 Thread Thomas Dahms
ybindings work thereafter. -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] [wmii] wedged indication does not go away

2011-02-14 Thread Thomas Dahms
he fullscreen view has no longer been a problem in the last time for me. On smaller screens, however, I found it rather annoying and remember that other people felt the same in the last discussion on this. -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] [wmii] wedged indication does not go away

2011-02-14 Thread Thomas Dahms
ren't actually unresponsive then it's hard to say and the most likely explanation is that they advertise that they'll respond to pings but for some reason don't. However, I don't think I've seen this happen. Looks like you can't do anything in this case anyway. -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] wmii how to replace status bar with dzen2

2011-02-08 Thread Thomas Dahms
, you just wrote everything directly. If you are using 3.9.2, you can try omitting the prefix and just write wmiir xwrite /rbar/status "#55 #ededeb #dcdcdb" -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] wmii how to replace status bar with dzen2

2011-02-07 Thread Thomas Dahms
I don't really know at the moment how to use wi_events or local_events correctly inside wmiirc_local. -- Thomas Dahms

[dev] [wmii] wedged indication does not go away

2011-02-07 Thread Thomas Dahms
t have the indication. I don't really understand what is done here (changeset 2697:fe8a99d89597). If these clients were really unresponsive, shouldn't this trigger the Unresponsive event in wmiirc and thus bring up an xmessage? Thanks, -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] wmii how to replace status bar with dzen2

2011-02-07 Thread Thomas Dahms
status bar by default. Defining another /rbar/battery is probably what you want in order to change color of only this. -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] wmii how to replace status bar with dzen2

2011-02-07 Thread Thomas Dahms
ur dzen2 bar instead of wmii's built-in bar. -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] tagging rules question

2011-02-01 Thread Thomas Dahms
screen (head) for a client. See [1]. You will want to wait for Kris to show up on the list if you want details. [1] http://code.google.com/p/wmii/issues/detail?id=178 -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] wmii opening new windows in same tag

2011-01-30 Thread Thomas Dahms
created this group rule to obtain different behavior. There is no other global option. -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] wmii opening new windows in same tag

2011-01-30 Thread Thomas Dahms
les into /rules instead of /colrules and /tagrules is not finished yet. This may explain the missing documentation. As I said earlier, I am not sure if this feature is in 3.9.2 already. You may want to browse the changesets to see when it was added. -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] wmii opening new windows in same tag

2011-01-28 Thread Thomas Dahms
. Try reverting the colors to default values. Highlighting should work. Note, however, that wimenu includes a cursor for some time now and thus moving the selection has changed to Tab and Shift-Tab. -- Thomas Dahms

[dev] [dwm] patch: tagnames per monitor

2010-11-26 Thread Thomas Dahms
metag patch to rename tags while dwm is running. I appreciate any comments. -- Thomas Dahms diff -r b4f5309d6253 config.def.h --- a/config.def.h Fri Nov 19 11:53:59 2010 + +++ b/config.def.h Fri Nov 26 09:49:54 2010 +0100 @@ -14,7 +14,21 @@ static const Bool topbar=

Re: [dev] [dwm] window borders in Virtualbox

2010-11-03 Thread Thomas Dahms
Am 01.11.2010 16:05, schrieb Thomas Dahms: Hi list, I am using dwm inside an Oracle Virtualbox (version 3.2.10 on Windows host, Arch Linux x86_64 guest with xorg-server 1.9.901). When switching focus between two side-by-side terminals, only the upper parts of the window borders are redrawn

Re: [dev] [dwm] window borders in Virtualbox

2010-11-03 Thread Thomas Dahms
Am 01.11.2010 16:05, schrieb Thomas Dahms: Hi list, I am using dwm inside an Oracle Virtualbox (version 3.2.10 on Windows host, Arch Linux x86_64 guest with xorg-server 1.9.901). When switching focus between two side-by-side terminals, only the upper parts of the window borders are redrawn

[dev] [dwm] window borders in Virtualbox

2010-11-01 Thread Thomas Dahms
he borders look right in the screenshot. Regardless of where I take the screenshot, host or guest. This does not occur with other window managers, but it may still not be dwm's fault. I'd be glad if someone can help. Thanks. -- Thomas Dahms

[dev] [wmii] sh wmiirc broken and Arch Python changes

2010-10-13 Thread Thomas Dahms
can't help more. And something unrelated: In Arch Linux, python is now Python 3. Using python2 with wmii is not smooth: It builds when changing the supplied PKGBUILD to depend on python2 and using the PYTHON=python2 flag, but /etc/wmii-hg/python/wmiirc still uses "#!/usr/bin/env python". -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] [wmii] Ruby wmiirc leaving space on screen without bar

2010-10-04 Thread Thomas Dahms
thought it may be a different bug and suggested to update his wmii installation. -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] [wmii] Ruby wmiirc leaving space on screen without bar

2010-10-04 Thread Thomas Dahms
.10 one day). Try wmii-hg from AUR if you want the bleeding edge. In any case, you may want wmii-hg to check if your bug is already fixed in tip. Using the tip and the sh wmiirc, I don't see any spurious space in Twinview, but I never used the p9p or Ruby flavours. -- Thomas Dahms

[dev] [wmii] tagging Thunderbird windows

2010-07-27 Thread Thomas Dahms
se new windows still get tagged "netz+something", although Thunderbirds main window is still "netz" only. Is this expected behavior? (Please no Thunderbird bashing in this thread.) -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] [wmii] Between tiling and floating

2010-07-26 Thread Thomas Dahms
f the box, for example. And you have to like Ruby. [1] http://subforge.org/wiki/subtle -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] [wmii] Python monitor function failure

2010-06-23 Thread Thomas Dahms
so I use a single whitespace when the player has stopped, otherwise the last nonempty string will stay in the status line. This maybe a dumb solution, though. -- Thomas Dahms

[dev] [wmii] Python monitor function failure

2010-06-23 Thread Thomas Dahms
-fm. Until recently, this just worked, but now I get errors as attached. The wmiirc.py then just seems to stop at this point. -- Thomas Dahms which: no keychain in (/users/dahms/local/bin:/home/dahms/bin:/home/dahms/local/bin:/home/dahms/local/usr/bin:/usr/mlocal/bin:/usr/glocal/bin:/usr/local/b

Re: [dev] libixp 131 build error

2010-06-21 Thread Thomas Dahms
Am 21.06.2010 17:13, schrieb Kris Maglione: Run 'make uninstall' first. That did help. Sorry for the alarm. -- Thomas Dahms

[dev] libixp 131 build error

2010-06-21 Thread Thomas Dahms
any levels of symbolic links make[1]: *** [ixp_print.install] Error 1 make: *** [dinstall] Error 2 -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] wmii FAQ

2010-06-11 Thread Thomas Dahms
, Kris Maglione wrote: > Hi, > > I'm updating the utterly aged wmii FAQ, and I'm hoping some of you can > think of some frequently asked questions, or things that have caught you > off guard, that I may miss. > > Thanks, -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] wmii: floating=True not working?

2010-06-10 Thread Thomas Dahms
in changeset 2710:41325c2ff8ec -- Thomas Dahms

[dev] [wmii] new /rules in tip

2010-06-04 Thread Thomas Dahms
ved the standard colrules from the stock wmiirc.py. -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] libixp hg 118 install problems

2010-05-24 Thread Thomas Dahms
the repo, so you have to comment out the _hgrepo and _hgroot lines on the first run, but then this "ln -snf" does not work, because the path exists, and then "cd $startdir" further below should read "cd $startdir/src/wmii" (or better "cd $srcdir/wmii" accord

Re: [dev] libixp hg 118 install problems

2010-05-24 Thread Thomas Dahms
/wmii/README: Permission denied make: *** [simpleinstall] Error 1 -- Thomas Dahms

[dev] libixp hg 118 install problems

2010-05-24 Thread Thomas Dahms
Hi, the recent Makefile changes will install the libs always to /lib instead of $(PREFIX)/lib. Looking in /lib, I also found libwmii_hack.so there, so wmii probably has the same issue. Also DESTDIR seems to be completely ignored. -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] Hangups when python wmiirc script is used

2010-03-30 Thread Thomas Dahms
also using wmii-hg and the Python wmiirc. Be sure to post the issue to the bug tracker. Kris seems to be around only from time to time. -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] wmii: Modifier+mouse click?

2009-11-24 Thread Thomas Dahms
wn" mod4 + b:5 "wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl send sel left" mod4 + shift + b:1 "wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl send sel right" mod4 + shift + b:3 "wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl send sel up" mod4 + shift + b:4 "wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl send sel down" mod4 + shift + b:5 And then just write "xbindkeys &" in your .xinitrc -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] wmii: Modifier+mouse click?

2009-11-23 Thread Thomas Dahms
is > pressed. A while ago, I used to use xbindkeys to bind Mod4+Mousewheel for scrolling the clients in a column. I can't tell the exact syntax, but the manpage of xbindkeys is helpful to find out how to bind mouse buttons and then you just have to bind a call to the desired wmiir command. -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] [dwm] patch - nametag

2009-10-30 Thread Thomas Dahms
or a > few hours. I like this. It made me switch from wmii to dwm. At least for today. -- Thomas Dahms

[dev] [wmii] hg2574 fails to build

2009-10-26 Thread Thomas Dahms
]: *** [wmii.out] Error 1 make[1]: *** [dall] Error 2 make: *** [dall] Error 2 -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] [ANN] wmii 3.9b1 released

2009-10-23 Thread Thomas Dahms
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:18:07 -0400 Kris Maglione wrote: > wmii 3.9 Beta 1 has just been released. Cool. I don't care about releases, but really appreciate that you fixed almost (let me remind you that issue 22 still cries "Fix me!") all major bugs recently. -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] [wmii] wmiir broken in 2546

2009-10-14 Thread Thomas Dahms
gt; Mmh, builds now on a second try, although I used a fresh clone before. Don't know what's the deal about this. -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] [wmii] wmiir broken in 2546

2009-10-14 Thread Thomas Dahms
got the txt2tags error before, since I have no txt2tags here, but the make error is new. -- Thomas Dahms

[dev] [wmii] wmiir broken in 2546

2009-10-14 Thread Thomas Dahms
Hi, wmiir xwrite /ctl exec wmii wmiir: fatal: Can't open file 'xwrite': file not found Just an example. This happens with any ls, read, write, or xwrite. -- Thomas Dahms

[dev] [wmii] hg2540 fails on make install using DESTDIR

2009-10-13 Thread Thomas Dahms
gives the same error for /home/dahms/packages/wmii-hg/pkg/usr/share/man/wmii.1 Note that ${pkgdir} is /home/dahms/packages/wmii-hg/pkg/ here. After some testing outside the PKGBUILD, DESTDIR is the thing to blame. Installing without a DESTDIR is fine. -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] wmii: Question on wmiirc_local.py

2009-10-09 Thread Thomas Dahms
y one cannot have it without a mailbox. Regarding the bug, I switched back to the sh wmiirc version for several reasons, but when I find some time, I will give you an update on this. I can however certainly say that there was no output from Python. I used vanilla wmiirc.py, so there was only the error on the missing wmiirc_local.py on startup, but nothing more. -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] wmii: Question on wmiirc_local.py

2009-10-07 Thread Thomas Dahms
glad if you could also have a look at issue 132, which is kind of annoying. -- Thomas Dahms<>import pygmi from pygmi import * from pygmi import events # Keys events.keydefs = dict( mod='Mod4', left='Left', down='Down', up='Up', rig

Re: [dev] wmii: Question on wmiirc_local.py

2009-10-01 Thread Thomas Dahms
Update and one more bug below. On Thu, 1 Oct 2009 10:06:25 +0200 Thomas Dahms wrote: > Works fine now but gives rise to another problem: Keeping the > modules in /etc, they don't get byte compiled on first import, as a > normal user has no write access there. As a workaround you c

Re: [dev] wmii: Question on wmiirc_local.py

2009-10-01 Thread Thomas Dahms
On Thu, 1 Oct 2009 00:25:04 -0400 Kris Maglione wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 09:32:07PM +0200, Thomas Dahms wrote: > >I should have tried before replying. This did not work. I had > >to copy the whole python/ from /etc/wmii-hg to ~/.wmii-hg and > >edit wmiirc.py

Re: [dev] wmii: Question on wmiirc_local.py

2009-09-30 Thread Thomas Dahms
iirc" in python/wmiirc gives always priority to the working directory regardless of sys.path. -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] wmii: Question on wmiirc_local.py

2009-09-30 Thread Thomas Dahms
y.progs and history.actions for the sh version. Only history.tags is common. May be good to have the same names in order to reuse the history when changing the config. -- Thomas Dahms

[dev] wmii: Question on wmiirc_local.py

2009-09-30 Thread Thomas Dahms
right='Right') Am I doing anything wrong? -- Thomas Dahms

Re: [dev] hg tip fails on make target `rc.wmii.out'

2009-09-29 Thread Thomas Dahms
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:00:09 -0400 Kris Maglione wrote: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:03:01AM -0700, Suraj Kurapati wrote: > >Please observe: > >... > >make[1]: *** No rule to make target `rc.wmii.out', needed by `all'. Stop. > >make: *** [dall] Error 2 > > Thanks, fixed. > That was fast. But

Re: [dev] hg tip fails on make target `rc.wmii.out'

2009-09-29 Thread Thomas Dahms
Hi, I just filed a bug report on this. The Makefile in doc/ is also missing the clean target. Thomas

[dev] [wmii] upcoming release and fullscreen bugs

2009-09-11 Thread Thomas Dahms
Hi all, Kris requested feedback before releasing wmii 3.9, so here is mine: - The fullscreen bugs (#22 and #68) should probably be fixed before a release. #22 can completely destroy your column layout when toggling fullscreen, while #68 may make clients invisible. A release should not have