Re: Who is interested in

2012-05-14 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
No offense, but this kind of thing happens in every community once in a while. A (new) guy wants to create his own site, get everyone on it, and then claim it's the "ultimate community" thing. Such things are only good for your ego (if you were even able to achieve it, which you're not), and is u

Re: Comparison of "extensible window managers"

2011-09-15 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
Awesome does not support tabbing. Plugins that used to provide it have been broken for a long time, with no solution in sight (which is why I think the tabbing support should not be listed on the frontpage - http://awesome.naquadah.org/ ) Dieter On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:55:54 +0200 Zsolt Udvari

Re: Awesome screencast

2011-09-06 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:40:52 +0200 Thorsten Sperber wrote: > Am 05.09.2011 18:06, schrieb Anurag Priyam: > > A couple of topics that I would like to see in future screen casts > > (in no particular order): > > > > 0. Default rc.lua and configuring basic things like keybindings, > > mouse buttons

Re: Awesome screencast

2011-09-02 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 02 Sep 2011 11:03:54 +0200 Julien Danjou wrote: > On Thu, Sep 01 2011, Alexander Yakushev wrote: > > > I decided to take a shot at making an Awesome screencast that may > > tell people about its basics. The first result is crappy as hell > > (especially, the sound) but I hope next parts

Re: How to make awesome launcher (Mod4-r) respect .bashrc aliases?

2011-05-08 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sat, 07 May 2011 11:09:08 +0200 Pieter Praet wrote: > On Thu, 5 May 2011 18:22:24 +0200, Dieter Plaetinck > wrote: > > On Thu, 05 May 2011 18:15:09 +0200 > > Pieter Praet wrote: > > > > > Very odd. > > > > > > I'm begin

Re: How to make awesome launcher (Mod4-r) respect .bashrc aliases?

2011-05-05 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Thu, 05 May 2011 18:15:09 +0200 Pieter Praet wrote: > Very odd. > > I'm beginning to doubt whether your .bashrc is even being sourced. > > > Could you try adding to your remote .bashrc: > export testvar="something" > > And run locally: > ssh user@remote "echo \$testvar" > > > That sh

Re: How to make awesome launcher (Mod4-r) respect .bashrc aliases?

2011-05-05 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Thu, 05 May 2011 14:08:11 +0200 Pieter Praet wrote: > On Thu, 5 May 2011 10:42:16 +0200, Dieter Plaetinck > wrote: > > On Thu, 05 May 2011 09:07:01 +0200 > > Pieter Praet wrote: > > > > > Correct. The following should cover most cases: >

Re: How to make awesome launcher (Mod4-r) respect .bashrc aliases?

2011-05-05 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Thu, 05 May 2011 09:07:01 +0200 Pieter Praet wrote: > Correct. The following should cover most cases: > > - non-login + interactive > - sources "/etc/bash.bashrc" > - sources "~/.bashrc" > > - non-login + non-interactive (eg. shell script) > - sources ${BASH_ENV} > > - login + interac

Re: How to make terminal font smooth?

2011-04-20 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:31:26 +0400 "immerrr again..." wrote: > On 04/20/2011 02:36 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > > how confusing, how does this compare to other tricks like > > Xdefaults or .gtkrc? > > > > Dieter > > gtkrc & Xdefaults is a common

Re: How to make terminal font smooth?

2011-04-20 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:07:25 +0530 Anurag Priyam wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Gennadiy Zlobin > wrote: > > Thanks you very much Anurag, it works perfectly! > > Nice :). I added it to the wiki[1]. > > [1] https://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Better_Font_Rendering > how confusing, ho

Re: [Marketing] Awesome, Wikipedia Deletion, Arch Linux Magazine

2010-03-14 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
If there's one thing about this whole stuff that I have an opinion about, it's this: I think the description on the website and such are a bit over the top and sound IMHO a bit arrogant. I mean the stuff like "extremely fast", "Very stable, fast and small codebase and footprint" etc. I personally

Re: awesome and desktop files in ~/.config/autostart

2010-02-16 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:03:46 +0100 Gregor Best wrote: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 04:08:29PM -0800, Mathieu Zhang wrote: > > [...] > > A more general question, is it the DM or WM's job to parse > > ~/.config/autostart?? [...] > > IMHO not. That's what we have .xinitrc or .xsession files for. They

Re: [ANN]: Unagi: an XCB compositing manager

2010-02-14 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:18:50 +0100 Arnaud Fontaine wrote: > >>>>> Dieter Plaetinck writes: > > Hi, > > > Thanks, I meant a clone of the complete desktop. I don't > > remember why but somehow I recall xrandr is inferior to a > &

Re: [ANN]: Unagi: an XCB compositing manager

2010-02-11 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:36:21 +0100 Arnaud Fontaine wrote: > I'm not sure whether you are talking of a clone of the desktop you > are currently in, which could be achieved through xrandr, or > just for specific windows? I'm not sure either why you would want to > do that? ;) Thanks, I

Re: [ANN]: Unagi: an XCB compositing manager

2010-02-11 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:43:06 +0100 Arnaud Fontaine wrote: > Hello, > > During the last year, I began writing a compositing manager as part > of my Master dissertation. (...) Looks cool. - What's the difference with xcompmgr? (i haven't used either) - does this make it possible to implement

Re: Modal/ratpoison/screen like key bindings

2010-01-08 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 23:52:41 +0530 Anurag Priyam wrote: > I also want to implement the same. From a previous mail it seems that > Gregor Best seems to have a solution. > > @Gregor Please do help us in implementing modal keybindings. We could > contact you off the list if desired. off-list? are y

Re: list of questions

2009-12-28 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
Thanks for getting back to me guys! > > * awesome-client seems to be quite costly: it's a shell script with > > several fork/exec calls, and uses dbus. can i do everything it does > > by just writing to a unix domain socket/fifo? > > That option has been removed some time ago, due to the code ove

list of questions

2009-12-28 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
Hi everyone. You may know me from uzbl, Arch Linux or somewhere else, if not: hi! Mostly because of the requirements uzbl puts on WM's, but also because I never had a "this is it!" moment with any WM, I'm looking for a new WM, and awesome is one of the candidates (the others are xmonad, i3, qtile