Re: [dev] merp is a loneliness mitigation device written in python and Tk

2010-07-30 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 30 Jul 2010, at 7:09, hiro wrote: I have not been able to get wm/irc to work under acme-sac. Is there something I'm missing? As I see now the snarf issue has been fixed one day after this discussion. The inferno host-window is not resizable yet as in i.e. 9vx or acme-sac, so it's still d

Re: [dev] merp is a loneliness mitigation device written in python and Tk

2010-07-30 Thread hiro
I have not been able to get wm/irc to work under acme-sac. Is there something I'm missing? As I see now the snarf issue has been fixed one day after this discussion. The inferno host-window is not resizable yet as in i.e. 9vx or acme-sac, so it's still difficult for me to use it. I would also love

Re: [dev] merp is a loneliness mitigation device written in python and Tk

2010-07-14 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 14 Jul 2010, at 06:30, Uriel wrote: Copy-paste with the host doesn't work by default because apparently making people's lives miserable is the main task of Inferno. As Kris pointed out, this work fine in acme-sac, and all that really is required is a single command (mounting the host's clip

Re: [dev] merp is a loneliness mitigation device written in python and Tk

2010-07-14 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 14 Jul 2010, at 14:28, Joseph Xu wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Uriel wrote: The ircfs site t is up now: http://www.ueber.net/code/r/ircfs ircfs is great, and its gui is great too, and mjl is a great hacker. Thanks for linking this. And does the world really need yet anothe

Re: [dev] merp is a loneliness mitigation device written in python and Tk

2010-07-14 Thread Joseph Xu
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Uriel wrote: > The ircfs site t is up now: > > http://www.ueber.net/code/r/ircfs > > ircfs is great, and its gui is great too, and mjl is a great hacker. Thanks for linking this. > > And does the world really need yet another python irc client? And I'm > not sure

Re: [dev] merp is a loneliness mitigation device written in python and Tk

2010-07-13 Thread Uriel
Copy-paste with the host doesn't work by default because apparently making people's lives miserable is the main task of Inferno. As Kris pointed out, this work fine in acme-sac, and all that really is required is a single command (mounting the host's clipboard) in your startup scripts. But don't

Re: [dev] merp is a loneliness mitigation device written in python and Tk

2010-07-13 Thread Kris Maglione
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 03:33:12AM +0100, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: If that's the case, it's not wm/ircfs I need to write a new GUI for. Maybe I should look into writing one for wm/sh. I really hope it's as trivial as Uriel says. Just use win(1). There is still the issue of no copy/paste w

Re: [dev] merp is a loneliness mitigation device written in python and Tk

2010-07-13 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
Sorry, clicked in the wrong place & sent a blank reply. On 14 Jul 2010, at 03:03, Uriel wrote: Also if somebody doesn't like the Inferno GUI for ircfs, it should be trivial enough to write another one. Running ircfs on a server, and attaching to it from different clients should work fine. uri

Re: [dev] merp is a loneliness mitigation device written in python and Tk

2010-07-13 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 14 Jul 2010, at 03:03, Uriel wrote: Also if somebody doesn't like the Inferno GUI for ircfs, it should be trivial enough to write another one. Running ircfs on a server, and attaching to it from different clients should work fine. uriel On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:08 AM, hiro <23h...@google

Re: [dev] merp is a loneliness mitigation device written in python and Tk

2010-07-13 Thread Uriel
Also if somebody doesn't like the Inferno GUI for ircfs, it should be trivial enough to write another one. Running ircfs on a server, and attaching to it from different clients should work fine. uriel On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:08 AM, hiro <23h...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Ok, I thought you were t

Re: [dev] merp is a loneliness mitigation device written in python and Tk

2010-07-13 Thread hiro
Ok, I thought you were talking about wm/ircfs which extraordinarily uses classic plan9 chording commands

Re: [dev] merp is a loneliness mitigation device written in python and Tk

2010-07-13 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 13 Jul 2010, at 22:15, hiro wrote: Huh? What menu are you talking about? I don't use a menu for copying and pasting. What window manager are you using to get into full-screen mode? middle-button menu in shell or brutus. if there's another way to copy and paste in inferno i would LOVE

Re: [dev] merp is a loneliness mitigation device written in python and Tk

2010-07-13 Thread hiro
Huh? What menu are you talking about? I don't use a menu for copying and pasting. What window manager are you using to get into full-screen mode? On 7/13/10, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > > On 13 Jul 2010, at 18:33, Uriel wrote: > >> The ircfs site t is up now: >> >> http://www.ueber.net/code/r/i

Re: [dev] merp is a loneliness mitigation device written in python and Tk

2010-07-13 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 13 Jul 2010, at 18:33, Uriel wrote: The ircfs site t is up now: http://www.ueber.net/code/r/ircfs ircfs is great, and its gui is great too, and mjl is a great hacker. I have some trouble taking any Inferno GUI seriously when its clipboard won't communicate with the host. The only means

Re: [dev] merp is a loneliness mitigation device written in python and Tk

2010-07-13 Thread hiro
I guess it was more of an exercise than a statement of art :D Learning stuff is suckless, that's sure. On 7/13/10, Uriel wrote: > The ircfs site t is up now: > > http://www.ueber.net/code/r/ircfs > > ircfs is great, and its gui is great too, and mjl is a great hacker. > > And does the world reall

Re: [dev] merp is a loneliness mitigation device written in python and Tk

2010-07-13 Thread Uriel
The ircfs site t is up now: http://www.ueber.net/code/r/ircfs ircfs is great, and its gui is great too, and mjl is a great hacker. And does the world really need yet another python irc client? And I'm not sure what makes merp particularly 'suckless' (whatever anything written in Python can be 's

Re: [dev] merp is a loneliness mitigation device written in python and Tk

2010-07-13 Thread Joseph Xu
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > > On 13 Jul 2010, at 14:09, Joseph Xu wrote: >> >> Hi Ethan: >> >> Thanks for checking out the software. Sounds like Tk is not as >> cross-platform as it claims. I don't have access to a mac right now, >> but I'll look into it in a few

Re: [dev] merp is a loneliness mitigation device written in python and Tk

2010-07-13 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 13 Jul 2010, at 14:09, Joseph Xu wrote: Hi Ethan: Thanks for checking out the software. Sounds like Tk is not as cross-platform as it claims. I don't have access to a mac right now, but I'll look into it in a few days. The resize handle is 15x15 pixels, I don't know whether you pack a b

Re: [dev] merp is a loneliness mitigation device written in python and Tk

2010-07-13 Thread Kris Maglione
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 09:09:31AM -0400, Joseph Xu wrote: Thanks for checking out the software. Sounds like Tk is not as cross-platform as it claims. I don't have access to a mac right now, but I'll look into it in a few days. For nickserv, the only way I interact with it is identifying myself,

Re: [dev] merp is a loneliness mitigation device written in python and Tk

2010-07-13 Thread Joseph Xu
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > > On 12 Jul 2010, at 13:50, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > >> >> On 12 Jul 2010, at 03:33, Joseph Xu wrote: >> >>> Hi: >>> >>> I switched my main computer to Windows XP a while ago to play some games, >>> and was frustrated with the lack

Re: [dev] merp is a loneliness mitigation device written in python and Tk

2010-07-12 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 12 Jul 2010, at 13:50, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: On 12 Jul 2010, at 03:33, Joseph Xu wrote: Hi: I switched my main computer to Windows XP a while ago to play some games, and was frustrated with the lack of simple usable IRC clients (among other applications). So I decided to write m

Re: [dev] merp is a loneliness mitigation device written in python and Tk

2010-07-12 Thread hiro
The old wmii community probably knows that one well enough, but for all the others I'd like to promote ircfs from Mechiel Lukkien. It runs on inferno and includes a 9p server and tk client. Sadly his site is currently down, but here's a paper from him: http://4e.iwp9.org/papers/ircfs.pdf

Re: [dev] merp is a loneliness mitigation device written in python and Tk

2010-07-12 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 12 Jul 2010, at 03:33, Joseph Xu wrote: Hi: I switched my main computer to Windows XP a while ago to play some games, and was frustrated with the lack of simple usable IRC clients (among other applications). So I decided to write my own. Since I didn't want to mess with Visual Studio

[dev] merp is a loneliness mitigation device written in python and Tk

2010-07-11 Thread Joseph Xu
Hi: I switched my main computer to Windows XP a while ago to play some games, and was frustrated with the lack of simple usable IRC clients (among other applications). So I decided to write my own. Since I didn't want to mess with Visual Studio and complicated GUI toolkits, I decided to write