On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 11:23:28PM +0800, Ivan Tham wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 07:25:06PM +0100, Patrick Bucher wrote: > > I'm using st and dwm at the same time, and today I discovered a little > > problem > > when using the default config of both programs. st uses Alt-Shift-C to copy > > text > > into the clipboard, dwm uses Mod1-Shift-C for closing the selected window, > > whereas Mod1 is Alt by default, at least on my machine. (Maybe some of you > > use > > Super_L, vulgo "the Windows key".) > > Windows key is a better choice most of the time since it's unused except > in qemu where windows uses super key so it clashes. Alt would be bad > since most applications uses Alt like Alt+1 in firefox, Alt+f in > terminal. > As you and many others suggested, I am now using the Windows key as well. It's a bit strange at the beginning, for my thumb has to move a bit more to the left, but at the same time I can use a lot more key combinations that require Alt, such as the one mentioned in st, but also some emacs-style readline commands.
> > So guess what happened when I was trying to copy some code into the > > clipboard > > today ;-) > > Try using the primary clipboard, I use that most of the time. I only use > the clipboard when it comes to Google drive stuff since they clipboard > sucks and don't support primary keyboard. > Now Alt also works here, but I also started using autocutsel, as an other user suggested; thank you, it's working fine. > > PS: Anybody using Arch Linux here? Since the fontconfig update today st no > > longer works with my font of choice Terminus. Just in case somebody has the > > same > > problem... here's my font[] definition: > > > > static char font[] = > > "Terminus:pixelsize=24:antialias=true:autohint=true:lang=ru"; > > I use Arch here with Void (Musl is broken with locale so no Chinese > LC_DATETIME), I heard that there is some issues with the latest update > where my friend can't use Inifinity but I am still be able to use > ttf-mononoki here fine. > > I don't know how to solve that but still hope you good luck! > As somebody else already pointed out, the freetype library has a different behaviour, requiring "xos4 Terminus" instead of "Terminus" to find the font. It works for me, but there is still a discussion going on: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=605168 Thank you for all your help! Patrick
