If you set locales to retarded values (anything other than C/UTF-8/en_US), shit will break.
Stop this crap, locales are an abomination. uriel On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 2:08 PM, nico <n...@lifeisabug.com> wrote: > Hello there, > > i changed my systems locales to de_DE.UTF-8 and now the command "uptime" > is using "," instead of "." because of LC_NUMERIC now being set to German > too. As a result of this the loadavg part of the default statusbar looks > like "131 087 071" (no dots since commas are removed by sed). > I have tried several things to make it work but I was not sucessful. > LC_NUMERIC _must_ be exported to make it work correctly, since uptime is > called from a subshell. Exporting LC_NUMERIC to an English locale is not an > option. > > Now, I don't know how to make that status command respecting a different > locale. > Changing the sed command to something more complex would surely work but I > am posting this here since this was no issue with wmii 3.6 yonks ago and > maybe other people run into this too. Any suggestions how to handle this? > > Secondly, a small suggestion: > I would like to have something like a small indication if there are any > floating windows hidden "behind" the managed layer if the latter is toggled > active (currently there is none and it's quite possible to forget about the > floating windows ;) Maybe a "~" in the tags name like the "*" if a window > is requesting attention. Don't know if this is possible but I hope you get > what I mean. > > regards, > nico > >
