[dev] dwm background, UXTerm, and config.h
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good Day, Long time subscriber, first time poster. Would like to say thank you to everyone that has put forth time and dedication to making dwm possible. Dwm was the motivating factor for migrating all of my Windows workstations to Debian (gnome, kde, flux, e17 all seemed like a step in the *wrong* direction). My entire network is now Windows free because of dwm - thank you, I really can't say that enough. With that out of the way, despite reviewing the results of a few Google queries and browsing previous mailing-list threads, I have a few issues/questions. Here's some of the details... dwm version: sy...@q9550:~/.dwm$ md5sum dwm-5.6.1.tar.gz 35cdf9b6e214a395e1bf0a10ecd05fb6 dwm-5.6.1.tar.gz 2 x 22 Widescreen LCD Monitors @ 1920x1080 with an NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT. Xinerama set to 1, TwinView set to 0. Here's the xorg.conf: http://sprunge.us/iShR?sh How do I define a background-image for each monitor, individually? The following command produces undesirable results: $ feh --bg-scale ~/media/images/wallpaper/dwm-3d-bg02.png - scales across both monitors rather than each one individually Also, does UXTerm have a transparency feature? The man pages for xterm and UXTerm fail to make any reference. If not, what alternatives if any would you suggest? I recall seeing a (Gentoo, I believe) thread regarding an alternative to UXTerm that was light-weight and offered a few more customization options, but I'm unable to relocate it. Finally, can someone provide or tell me where the documentation is for the new monitor option defined under the rules[] in config.h? Is 0 the left monitor and 1 the right monitor as defined in the xorg.conf? What would -1? be, then? Regards, - - Guy P. http://www.nullamatix.com/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJKitChAAoJEMLX50JovmoJz64H/30D73H1STnp4aizVlanyvgU Z6LdX/ZALhw83gYxvdmxSYHSNcNLKpP4L4TlqdiX47a2lMqq8J1+WmfbGPrJM5qQ mI9UsenvFFlWnHTMr1UhT1Zo8h3w3J50Tf8IyAku/afFNsEJUR9EX+Qlub2zbtZm uHPCB0/7Cn7qtzWAEJwkNdMVLMVrCc2PnkNiQQZf1oOTSsV8dBPFfKPMors0/Ket /fIislT97iwuVRC4OJ81wg7+ypHjbCqPW5OwAfYNb1zzEpxcw5f/KaWY8f/Lmx97 KAduVOQFmMuxnJm0HophceubzhRNsl07ywAtUwV0WNh2Vqdcdx0adMwjaRzcMmM= =Q4b8 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [dev] dwm background, UXTerm, and config.h
Hiho, How do I define a background-image for each monitor, individually? The following command produces undesirable results: $ feh --bg-scale ~/media/images/wallpaper/dwm-3d-bg02.png - scales across both monitors rather than each one individually well, you need a xinerama-aware wallpaper setter app. I had some limited access with one called 'nitrogen'. I think it's actually much easier to create a single image with both wallpapers in it, and set it using feh. Also, does UXTerm have a transparency feature? The man pages for xterm and UXTerm fail to make any reference. If not, what alternatives if any would you suggest? I recall seeing a (Gentoo, I believe) thread regarding an alternative to UXTerm that was light-weight and offered a few more customization options, but I'm unable to relocate it. i seem to recall that urxvt supports (virtual) transparency Finally, can someone provide or tell me where the documentation is for the new monitor option defined under the rules[] in config.h? Is 0 the left monitor and 1 the right monitor as defined in the xorg.conf? What would -1? be, then? -1 means not to put matching clients on any particular monitor (instead, use the current selected monitor). Numbering probably depends on how xinerama data is provided. Best regards, Mate Nagy
Re: [dev] dwm background, UXTerm, and config.h
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 06:15:50PM +0200, Mate Nagy wrote: Hiho, How do I define a background-image for each monitor, individually? The following command produces undesirable results: $ feh --bg-scale ~/media/images/wallpaper/dwm-3d-bg02.png - scales across both monitors rather than each one individually well, you need a xinerama-aware wallpaper setter app. I had some limited access with one called 'nitrogen'. I think it's actually much easier to create a single image with both wallpapers in it, and set it using feh. I've done that, but you can set backdrops for each monitor using habak. So far as I know you need to specify pixel values, but it will do the job, and works like fbsetbg, which I used to rely on. Also, does UXTerm have a transparency feature? The man pages for xterm and UXTerm fail to make any reference. If not, what alternatives if any would you suggest? I recall seeing a (Gentoo, I believe) thread regarding an alternative to UXTerm that was light-weight and offered a few more customization options, but I'm unable to relocate it. i seem to recall that urxvt supports (virtual) transparency True; using it right now. -POLM
Re: [dev] dwm background, UXTerm, and config.h
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Mate, I had some limited access with one called 'nitrogen'. I think it's actually much easier to create a single image with both wallpapers in it, and set it using feh. Nitrogen ruined the right monitor display, had to purge that app. I ended up making a 3840x1080 image and use feh to set it. Works perfectly - thanks. i seem to recall that urxvt supports (virtual) transparency You're correct. Got urxvt installed, configured, and working like a champ. For anyone interested, here's the content of ~/.Xresources: URxvt*font: -*-terminus-medium-*-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-* URxvt*background: black URxvt*foreground: white URxvt*termName: rxvt URxvt*multichar_encoding: utf-8 URxvt*transparent: true URxvt*tintColor: white URxvt*shading: 50 URxvt*loginShell: true URxvt*scrollBar: false URxvt*scrollKey: true URxvt*saveLines: 3000 -1 means not to put matching clients on any particular monitor (instead, use the current selected monitor). Numbering probably depends on how xinerama data is provided. Sounds good - thanks for sharing. - - Guy P. http://www.nullamatix.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJKiwCuAAoJEMLX50JovmoJSqwIAKrJCdszIdT0nJJMbuyQYhGx GQ8zErbqADOqNUhNKtCA/YMVCgHO6NmdKsrXkrTA7cyuwnCxCnk/tfidnzYAQFaD J6KIiBgnESt1ze7RuOjmyOVPId4UIM5kmg1nrvT3P6Cc+4zOkWn8NKOrMpAUy5ID cTknacRy3YEXjvrIXpxRydcqzvmKpZ8adEsnk2X4IVxBmb+mFb9wABIOu0KPJx8O Joj9mgzSzXzAi9n/y8Sf9EtUa+v8A3jPMIhNoy6f3SyzgWNPHCCxsZ/KXL7BV1R7 Mw8X2VEqexcwel0ObdOSxX42SezZ9ujdcjygPkJrfP+0NgIbgtAKqzv6O3EhzR8= =SnZa -END PGP SIGNATURE-
