Re: [dev] [dwm] adding docking support

2011-10-17 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 10:05 PM, Kurt H Maier karmaf...@gmail.com wrote: Panels are a part of a different interface paradigm.  dwm does not have desktops.  This is another example of software that shouldn't be crammed into dwm. Yet dwm sports a half-assed status bar that works as an

Re: [dev] [dwm] adding docking support

2011-10-17 Thread Connor Lane Smith
On 17/10/2011, Bjartur Thorlacius svartma...@gmail.com wrote: a half-assed status bar that works as an application launcher dmenu != dwm cls

Re: [dev] [dwm] adding docking support

2011-10-17 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Bjartur Thorlacius svartma...@gmail.com wrote: Yet dwm sports a half-assed status bar that works as an application launcher and clock. This could be implemented more modularily by XEmbedding... although it would probably wind more complicated than necessary.

Re: [dev] [dwm] adding docking support

2011-10-17 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Connor Lane Smith c...@lubutu.com wrote: On 17/10/2011, Bjartur Thorlacius svartma...@gmail.com wrote: dmenu != dwm Try clicking the title (selmon-bar IIRC). Wait for a terminal emulator to spawn.

Re: [dev] [dwm] adding docking support

2011-10-17 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Bjartur Thorlacius svartma...@gmail.com wrote: Try clicking the title (selmon-bar IIRC). Wait for a terminal emulator to spawn. What? No. What code do you see that's supposed to do that? Did you put that into your config.h? -- # Kurt H Maier

Re: [dev] [dwm] adding docking support

2011-10-17 Thread Connor Lane Smith
On 17/10/2011, Kurt H Maier karmaf...@gmail.com wrote: What? No. What code do you see that's supposed to do that? Did you put that into your config.h? config.def.h:93 On 17/10/2011, Bjartur Thorlacius svartma...@gmail.com wrote: Try clicking the title (selmon-bar IIRC). Wait for a terminal

Re: [dev] [dwm] adding docking support

2011-10-17 Thread Petr Sabata
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 09:08:04AM -0400, Kurt H Maier wrote: On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Bjartur Thorlacius svartma...@gmail.com wrote: Try clicking the title (selmon-bar IIRC). Wait for a terminal emulator to spawn. What? No. What code do you see that's supposed to do that? Did

Re: [dev] [dwm] adding docking support

2011-10-17 Thread Peter John Hartman
That's not exactly what I'd describe as an application launcher, but I still don't understand what you're complaining about. If you want to change dwm's status bar, customise your buttons[]. (And a clock? That's just the root window title.) I'm really not convinced a generic status bar

Re: [dev] [dwm] adding docking support

2011-10-17 Thread Robert Ransom
On 2011-10-16, Kurt H Maier karmaf...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Bjartur Thorlacius svartma...@gmail.com wrote: First, docking is generally useful for panels. Dwm sucks as a status bar. Should the information displayed in the status bar not be properties on the root

Re: [dev] [dwm] adding docking support

2011-10-17 Thread Connor Lane Smith
On 17/10/2011, Peter John Hartman peterjohnhart...@gmail.com wrote: Not that I care about statusbars and dockbars--I just want dwm to play nice with onscreen keyboards---I think, that said, that his point is that there's no conceptual tension between dwm and a statusbar *since dwm has a

Re: [dev] [dwm] adding docking support

2011-10-17 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
Somebody claiming to be Peter John Hartman wrote: I'm really not convinced a generic status bar would work better than dwm's does now. Not that I care about statusbars and dockbars--I just want dwm to play nice with onscreen keyboards---I think, that said, that his point is that there's no

Re: [dev] [dwm] adding docking support

2011-10-17 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
Connor Lane Smith wrote: their status bar without a bunch of garish icons; text will suffice. Yes, but using fancy fonts. Thankfully, patching is possible. Thus my point is moot. Robert Pansom wrote: I would think you'ld *like* setting _NET_NUMBER_OF_DESKTOPS to 2^10 by Or 2^9-1. But your point

Re: [dev] [dwm] adding docking support

2011-10-17 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Stephen Paul Weber singpol...@singpolyma.net wrote: Isn't docking really just another layout?  One where most windows tile below a window kept at the top/side? Kinda, but it then it depends on recursive window management.

Re: [dev] [dwm] adding docking support

2011-10-17 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Petr Sabata con...@redhat.com wrote: It's in the default dwm config, line 93... Woops. I guess I should probably glance at config.def.h once in a while. I must have removed that so long ago that it was lost in the mists of brain. -- # Kurt H Maier

Re: [dev] dmenu: mouse patch

2011-10-17 Thread Thuban
Great! Something I've been waiting for a ling time! It would be nice on the wiki! Le 00:57:33 le 17 oct. 2011 , Connor Lane Smith a écrit : Hey all, In case anyone's interested, here's a patch which adds some basic mouse support to dmenu. You can click things, click the paginators ( and

[dev] Some questions about st and a patch

2011-10-17 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
I've started using st and have some questions/issues: 1) To get the foreground colour I want, I changed index 7 of colorname[] to grey -- will this have any strange site effects? 2) The foreground colour brightblack in mutt (which shows as a grey in xterm/rxvt) shows as straight black, which

Re: [dev] Fwd: [hackers] printf(Rest in peace, Dennis\n); exit(0);

2011-10-17 Thread Džen
Invent the C programming language and UNIX, then die: nobody gives a shit. Market other people's technologies to rich white kids, then die: HE WAS LIKE FCUKING EINSTEIN ZOMG EDISON WTFBBQ. -- Džen

Re: [dev] Some questions about st and a patch

2011-10-17 Thread Nick
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 09:44:19AM -0500, Stephen Paul Weber wrote: 3) How do I scroll up the scrollbuffer? The Shift+PageUp I'm used to does not seem to work. This isn't implemented in st yet, sadly. Some people are happy having tmux manage scrollback stuff.

Re: [dev] Some questions about st and a patch

2011-10-17 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Somebody claiming to be Connor Lane Smith wrote: On 17/10/2011, Stephen Paul Weber singpol...@singpolyma.net wrote: 4) alt+leftarrow and alt+rightarrow, which I use in irssi to swich chats, do not seem to work. Looking at st.c, it seems that

Re: [dev] [dwm] dwm statusbar - see wmii

2011-10-17 Thread Suraj N. Kurapati
On Mon 17 Oct 2011 02:29:43 PM PDT, Connor Lane Smith wrote: Separating the status bar from the window manager would require us to fill root with atoms, or else invent our own IPC protocol, and it would generally get quite messy. That's what wmii does, where IPC is done via the 9P2000

Re: [dev] [dwm] dwm statusbar - see wmii

2011-10-17 Thread Kurt H Maier
A 5,000-line library to handle status bar IPC. Super. -- # Kurt H Maier

Re: [dev] [dwm] dwm statusbar - see wmii

2011-10-17 Thread hiro
A 5,000-line library to handle status bar IPC.  Super. It's not only used for the status bar