Re: [dev] unsubscribe

2012-06-13 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
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Re: [dev] Re: ... and then i go and spoil it all by saying somethingstupid ...

2012-02-20 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:02:20 +0100 Jakub Lach wrote: > Dnia 15 lutego 2012 17:54 hiro <23h...@googlemail.com> napisał(a): > > > > Now you get sucked less, I guess. > > > > It's not a bug, it's a feature. > > Deleted relationship is debugged relationship. > > awesome thread

Re: [dev] FOSDEM

2012-01-30 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:31:33 + suckless-...@njw.me.uk wrote: > So, FOSDEM is this weekend. Is anyone on the list coming? > > I'm looking forward to going, and it'd be fun to meet up > with like-minded folks. > > Nick > I'm going.

Re: [dev] Siemens RTL Tiled Window Manager

2011-12-20 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:20:49 +0100 Connor Lane Smith wrote: > On 19 December 2011 18:11, Christoph Lohmann <2...@r-36.net> wrote: > > before you guys start using rtl like dwm, here's a presentation > > video[0] about how it was intended to be used. > > Ellis Cohen wins. I demand that 1:00 - 1:25

Re: [dev] dmenu's lsx binary naming conflicts with lrzsz!

2011-11-28 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 07:52:17 -0500 Kurt H Maier wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 4:48 AM, Dieter Plaetinck > wrote: > > If you can avoid conflicts, that's better than expecting packagers > > (of each distro) to fix it. > > I disagree. lsx-lrzsz is clearly less u

Re: [dev] dmenu's lsx binary naming conflicts with lrzsz!

2011-11-28 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:51:03 -0500 Kurt H Maier wrote: > Just call it 'stest'. If there's a collision, that's what packagers > are for. If you can avoid conflicts, that's better than expecting packagers (of each distro) to fix it.

Re: [dev] [dmenu] Keyboard Bindings

2011-11-21 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:59:49 +0100 Yoshi Rokuko wrote: > +--- Dieter Plaetinck ---+ > > I don't understand... Are you saying "I agree the > > token matching works fine and is the fastest, but I > > still want you to implement an in

Re: [dev] [dmenu] Keyboard Bindings

2011-11-20 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:28:14 +0100 Yoshi Rokuko wrote: > i use dmenu only on url and program names, i used it for file names too, > but my files do not have whitespaces, and i agree that typing 'hg ta' > is much faster then 'hg.*ta', but i think one should not touch REGEXP(7) > in a single progra

Re: [dev] [dmenu] Keyboard Bindings

2011-11-20 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:43:59 +0100 Yoshi Rokuko wrote: > i think we all expect dmenu to match patterns as grep (?) nope.

Re: [dev] [dwm] 2000 SLOC

2011-10-31 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:11:28 +0100 Anselm R Garbe wrote: > 3. Quality: the project must aim to be a quality finished product once > exceeding the 1.0 version number and be maintained afterwards. > Unmaintained projects will be removed after a grace period of one > year. those kind of version num

Re: [dev] Linux sucks!

2011-10-28 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:16:33 +0100 Connor Lane Smith wrote: > On 28 October 2011 12:46, Kurt H Maier wrote: > > this is the biggest part of why he's an asshole.  if you're not > > willing to learn how to use a computer don't buy a computer.  if > > your biggest complaint about a piece of softwar

Re: [dev] Linux sucks!

2011-10-28 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:25:48 +0200 Pieter Praet wrote: > On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:54:12 +0200, Dieter Plaetinck > wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:33:18 +0100 > > Guilherme Lino wrote: > > > > > latex is cool, vim, dwm, but no one out of the professional > &

Re: [dev] Linux sucks!

2011-10-27 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:33:18 +0100 Guilherme Lino wrote: > latex is cool, vim, dwm, but no one out of the professional > field of computer sience have the time or patience to learn this unix > philosophy.. are you trolling or what? "nobody will ever need more then 64k of memory".. now "no profes

Re: [dev] Linux sucks!

2011-10-27 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
that guy is wrong in so many ways I won't even bother to mention any specifics. Sure, the stuff he mentions is somewhat correlated to the real problems with "spare time open source software", but his interpretations and "solutions", oh my. He doesn't really know what he's talking about. Dieter

Re: [dev] Formatting emails

2011-10-03 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Mon, 3 Oct 2011 15:37:15 + Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Ethan Grammatikidis > wrote: > > On another note entirely, would you mind not wraping your text so > > wide, please? My eyes aren't too good so I use larger text, and > > anything wrapped over about 75-

Re: [dev] Re: suckless.org freeze

2011-09-29 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 08:05:00 +0200 Anselm R Garbe wrote: > Hi there, > > suckless.org is back online now. > > Best regards, > Anselm hooray, thanks Anselm. Dieter

Re: [dev] A dmenu that includes all additional features

2011-09-12 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:34:04 +0200 sta...@cs.tu-berlin.de wrote: > * Connor Lane Smith [2011-09-12 15:52]: > > How do people feel about tok in mainline? Might be worth discussing. > > token matching? almost meaningless for program names. very helpful for > natural language, structured entries (d

Re: [dev] A dmenu that includes all additional features

2011-09-12 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:51:48 +0100 Connor Lane Smith wrote: > On 12 September 2011 10:20, Dieter Plaetinck > wrote: > > Thank you for that bloat patch! > > I didn't realise it could be this simple. > > dmenu is very easy to hack. ;) > > > I did see a

Re: [dev] A dmenu that includes all additional features

2011-09-12 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:49:38 +0100 Connor Lane Smith wrote: > Attached are two diffs, my token patch updated to 4.4, and a bloat > patch ;) which provides everything you wanted. > > cls Thank you for that bloat patch! I didn't realise it could be this simple. I did see a bug: when using token m

Re: [dev] A dmenu that includes all additional features

2011-09-11 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 15:09:45 -0400 Peter John Hartman wrote: > I'm a lazy list reader, but aren't all of those already in dmenu > tip? Can't you list the features that *aren't* in "dmenu as we know > it"? not included: * multi select, but the argument of Hiro (that this is not really needed) ma

[dev] A dmenu that includes all additional features

2011-09-08 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
Hi, in an attempt to get a dmenu that includes all features I want, I've been trying to combine patches from various sources to various versions of dmenu. This has proven to be a pain, as patches conflict with each other (or sometimes apply, but still break functionality) and/or loose compatibili

Re: [dev] ideas on suckless file manager

2011-06-07 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 10:53:03 -0400 Le Tian wrote: > Continuing these threads about suckless "anything" > I've been looking quite a long time for fast and lightweight file > manager for dwm. There are occasions, when u need to see or show some > lovely icons. MC and derivatives are the last resort

Re: [dev] Suckless Smartphone?

2011-06-06 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
k because you dont actually read them > > > > -- > > Guilherme Lino > > > > > > On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Dieter Plaetinck > > mailto:die...@plaetinck.be>> wrote: > > > > non-electronic books suck because you can't easily search in, or > > copypaste from them. > > > >

Re: [dev] Best way to serialize data

2011-06-06 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 19:19:56 +0200 Džen wrote: > I was wondering about which way would be the easiest/simplest to > serialize data, f.e. being read via a file or stdin (data being a > table of x rows and y columns, each cell a string). I thought of > using NULL bytes as cell delimiters and newlin

Re: [dev] Suckless Smartphone?

2011-06-06 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
that's only because i have no ebook reader yet. because they all suck. On Mon, 6 Jun 2011 18:24:16 +0100 Guilherme Lino wrote: > electronic books suck because you dont actually read them > > -- > Guilherme Lino > > > On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Dieter Pla

Re: [dev] Suckless Smartphone?

2011-06-06 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
non-electronic books suck because you can't easily search in, or copypaste from them. maybe you need a tablet or one of those ebook readers. Dieter On Mon, 6 Jun 2011 17:42:29 +0100 Guilherme Lino wrote: > a book about plan9? > > -- > Guilherme Lino > > > On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 5:23 PM, And

Re: [dev] Sandy editor

2011-05-27 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 27 May 2011 10:29:17 +0200 Aurélien Aptel wrote: > On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 4:52 AM, John Matthewman > wrote: > > Yea, probably a good idea (of course, ignoring Emacs' chained > > keybindings). Sandy would benefit from a better set of default > > bindings. Though for reference you might w

Re: [dev] TermKit

2011-05-20 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 20 May 2011 15:19:00 +0100 Connor Lane Smith wrote: > On 20 May 2011 14:54, Kurt H Maier wrote: > > I don't understand why.  If you want stderr to be combined into > > stdout, suffix 2>&1 to your command.  By default, I think different > > filehandles should land in different outputs. >

Re: [dev] TermKit

2011-05-20 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 20 May 2011 14:40:39 +0100 Connor Lane Smith wrote: > On 20 May 2011 14:27, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > >  I think a fd to write something to like "here's an image, please > >  render it somewhere" is better than cls's suggestion of having apps >

Re: [dev] TermKit

2011-05-20 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 20 May 2011 12:51:35 +0100 David Tweed wrote: > it always depresses me that it's > kind of taken as a virtue that the interactive shell and the terminal > are know almost nothing about each other (at least for almost all > modern computing devices, I can see if you genuinely are using a >

Re: [dev] [dmenu] tip

2011-05-16 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sun, 15 May 2011 22:46:17 +0100 Connor Lane Smith wrote: > Hey all, > > I've been tinkering with dmenu the last few days. I think it would be > good to get a 4.3 release out at some point soon, so if anyone could > report any bugs to me that would be swell. > A brief list of changes: > > In

Re: [dev] [dmenu] Patch for XDG Base Directory specification of dmenu_path

2011-01-08 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 19:01:24 + Connor Lane Smith wrote: > dmenu tip now has an option in config.mk allowing you to specify the > path of dmenu_path's cache, either absolute or relative to $HOME. It > doesn't let you do anything involving environment variables, as true > XDG would require, but

Re: [dev] [hack] Having dmenu provide hints about current selected entry

2010-11-26 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:33:51 +0100 Christophe-Marie Duquesne wrote: > On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Dieter Plaetinck > wrote: > > the delay caused by dmenu waiting for stdin input to be complete > > is noticeable. > > Actually, while performance also matters,

Re: [dev] [hack] Having dmenu provide hints about current selected entry

2010-11-26 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 14:38:10 +0100 Christophe-Marie Duquesne wrote: > Hi there, > > I wanted a menu that would allow me to select entries both from the > uzbl history and from google suggest 'as you type' (like in firefox). > While dmenu allows selecting entries in a static list (like uzbl > his

Re: [dev] Re: [dmenu] [patch] add xft and fix possible memory leak in version 4.2.1

2010-11-22 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:26:56 + Connor Lane Smith wrote: > On 22 November 2010 12:01, Anselm R Garbe wrote: > > I prefer to keep cleanup() even if it slows down the performance > > (which I doubt will be noticeable) just for the sake of keeping the > > symmetry that the code that allocates re

Re: [dev] git dmenu mirror with feature branches instead of separate patches

2010-11-21 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 19:56:07 + Connor Lane Smith wrote: > On 21 November 2010 19:33, wrote: > > Another kinda heretic idea might be to have fairly feature-rich > > branches and feature-removing patches. Just thinking loud > > Trunk, a branch per patch, a spicy branch, and a plain branc

Re: [dev] git dmenu mirror with feature branches instead of separate patches

2010-11-21 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 16:30:55 +0100 v4hn wrote: > On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 04:14:26PM +0100, sta...@cs.tu-berlin.de > wrote: > > Often, issues arise when applying multiple patches. The prposal > > doesn't solve this, does it? For single features -- sure, it's > > beneficial, but the work to keep st

[dev] git dmenu mirror with feature branches instead of separate patches

2010-11-21 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
Hi, I'm not sure if this is a good idea or not, but at least it's an interesting experiment. For the following reasons... - It's easier to maintain and update separate versions/features using vcs branches rather then separate patch files. (unless all the patches posted are generated by vcs sy

Re: [dev] Re: [dmenu] [patch] add xft and fix possible memory leak in version 4.2.1

2010-11-21 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 01:22:46 -0800 Dan Brown wrote: > 3) adds 2 other features that I want (but may not be generally > popular): filter mode and token matching "token matching" seems to be the same as the xmms-style matching: http://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/patches/xmms-like_pattern_matching (al

Re: [dev] dmenu patch to return all matching items (for a new dmenu-powered music player interface)

2010-11-11 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:53:32 +0100 markus schnalke wrote: > [2010-11-11 14:36] Dieter Plaetinck > > On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:12:59 +0100 > > markus schnalke wrote: > > > > > Note that the user might not be able to know in which mode dmenu > > > acts at ru

Re: [dev] dmenu patch to return all matching items (for a new dmenu-powered music player interface)

2010-11-11 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:12:59 +0100 markus schnalke wrote: > Note that the user might not be able to know in which mode dmenu acts > at run-time. why wouldn't he? if a dmenu appears on a users' screen, it appears because the user configured/installed a script/keybinding/tool that spawns the dmen

Re: [dev] dmenu patch to return all matching items (for a new dmenu-powered music player interface)

2010-11-11 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:36:23 +0100 sta...@cs.tu-berlin.de wrote: > * Anselm R Garbe [2010-11-11 12:19]: > > On 11 November 2010 06:25, Dan Brown wrote: > > > As part of a project to create a simple and fast music player > > > interface, I patched dmenu to allow it to return all matching > > > it

Re: [dev] dmenu patch to return all matching items (for a new dmenu-powered music player interface)

2010-11-11 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:25:09 -0800 Dan Brown wrote: > Hello and thanks everyone. > > As part of a project to create a simple and fast music player > interface, I patched dmenu to allow it to return all matching items > instead of just the one at the cursor. dmenu is the browsing > interface; and

Re: [dev] flo - a command line program for organizing events, to-dos, and deadlines

2010-08-18 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:27:22 +0200 Alexander Teinum wrote: > How many of these small tools are there? moreutils rock. they really fill some gaps. niche, but still. Dieter

Re: [dev] [patch] xmms like pattern matching for dmenu (update to hg tip)

2010-08-10 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 03:20:57 +0200 Arian Kuschki wrote: > Excerpts from Uriel's message of 2010-08-10 02:01:40 +0200: > > This seems like a rather clumsy, non-standard and silly way to > > implement globbing. > > > > Implementing * and ? wildcards would be a much better idea. > > I've been usin

Re: [dev] [patch] xmms like pattern matching for dmenu (update to hg tip)

2010-08-08 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sat, 7 Aug 2010 22:27:31 +0100 StephenB wrote: > On 7 August 2010 20:36, Robert Ransom wrote: > > > On Sat, 7 Aug 2010 17:23:13 +0100 > > StephenB wrote: > > > > > Just to make clear, this patch is an updated version of the one > > > here: > > > http://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/patches/xmms-

Re: [dev] Suckless operating system

2010-06-15 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:18:20 -0400 Kris Maglione wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 04:05:24PM +0200, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > >On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:43:31 -0400 > >Kurt H Maier wrote: > >> This is what makes the suckless list better. Otherwise you wind up

Re: [dev] Suckless operating system

2010-06-15 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:43:31 -0400 Kurt H Maier wrote: > This is what makes the suckless list better. Otherwise you wind up > with shit like http://www.archhurd.org/ > What's wrong with arch hurd? Dieter

Re: [dev] Re: XDG directories

2010-06-11 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:09:55 +0200 David Engster wrote: > Dieter Plaetinck writes: > > yes, both the app data and user data (can) end(s) up in > > $XDG_DATA_HOME > > I see that in my .local/share as well. It's a complete mess. > > So what they tried to do is to

Re: [dev] Re: XDG directories

2010-06-11 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:29:41 -0400 Kris Maglione wrote: > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 03:17:18PM +0200, David Engster wrote: > >David Engster writes: > >> I'm trying to understand which problem exactly is solved by this. I > >> tried to read the "XDG Base Directory Specification" [1] but I > >> admit

Re: [dev] XDG directories

2010-06-11 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:33:51 +0100 Connor Lane Smith wrote: > Hey, > > On 11 June 2010 10:19, Kris Maglione wrote: > > While on the one hand, I think that the people who wrote the XDG > > spec are raving mad[1], on the other, I hate applications clogging > > up my home directory with dot-files.

Re: [dev] dmenu_path rewrite in C

2010-05-19 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Wed, 19 May 2010 21:01:54 +0900 Renick Bell wrote: > > Slow how?  How large is this history file? > > Sorry, I am exaggerating. My patience gets ever shorter: a bit over a > second for a file for a 49,856 line file at the moment. Maybe I should > prune my history. Subjectively, I often feel a

Re: [dev] dmenu -m "new%patch" -d "%"

2010-05-11 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Tue, 11 May 2010 11:58:12 +0100 Martin Ellis wrote: > Hi, > > We had a strange situation where putting the menu in stdin was > difficult. > > For our situation supplying the menu on the command line would be > easier. > > Attached is a patch that provides this. > > The new syntax is > > d

Re: [dev] SWK: The simple widget kit

2010-05-10 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Mon, 10 May 2010 10:00:12 +0200 pancake wrote: > I really prefer to tap my phone than open the keyboard and type a 4 > pipe command. Which is not the same situation on desktop...where > keyboard is preferible. +1 Dieter

Re: [dev] Suckless BT client(s)?

2010-05-04 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Tue, 4 May 2010 16:09:22 +0600 mikhail maluyk wrote: > Take a look at transmission. > i think rtorrent is "ok". lightweight, but lacks some advanced features such as webseeds. Personally i prefer support for DHT, webseeds, encryption and whatnot. i just had a look at transmission, using it

Re: [dev] [surf] What Works

2010-04-22 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:25:04 -0400 Jacob Todd wrote: > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 05:47:07PM +0400, anonymous wrote: > > Do we really need that "What Works" list on > > http://surf.suckless.org/? It tells reader what sites works with > > WebKit? > > > Some sites do silly things with cookies, and th

Re: [dev] [dmenu] A clickable dmenu is a dream?

2010-03-28 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:14:56 +0100 Connor Lane Smith wrote: > I was thinking of perhaps trying a dmenu-derivative which spawns a > shell to interact with, becoming an extremely simple one-line 'dterm'. > Could be interesting, anyway. bashrun? http://bashrun.sourceforge.net/ Dieter

Re: [dev] Why use Mercurial?

2010-02-15 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:52:09 +0100 Aurélien Aptel wrote: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Kris Maglione > wrote: > > Ooh! Uriel 2.0! > > You mean, Uriel changeset 42 dead0beef15d ? > touche

Re: [dev] [SLOCK] is not safe

2010-01-19 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:11:24 +0100 Premysl Hruby wrote: > Problem here is not using exec startx or startx & exit, not using or > not using exec in xinitrc/xsession! > > -Ph say what?

Re: [dev] suckless real time file sync system (or dropbox alternative)

2009-12-23 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
and what about sshfs, ftpfs, etc?

Re: [dev] suckless real time file sync system (or dropbox alternative)

2009-12-22 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
> I can't see why you want this instead of a traditional > fileserver+clients, but never question a crazy idea. :) true that. so, how do dropbox-ish things work? 1) they automagically do some synchronizing when you put something in a directory 2) you [or a script] has to put something in the direc

Re: [dev] Less Sucking X Window System?

2009-12-15 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:54:03 +0100 Frederik Caulier wrote: > Hello dev@ > > Some of you might be interested in alternatives to the X Window > System, so I thought I'd just share [0] with you. > Although Y-Windows being currently unmaintained it might still be > worth a look. > > [0] http://www.

Re: [dev] suckless password manager

2009-12-11 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
FYI recently the fd.o guys started working on a "secrets storage spec" http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/secret-storage-spec i find it quite interesting because they want to have a spec that multiple applications will start using. If you want to help steering them to be compatible wit

Re: [dev] [surf] editing textboxes with external command

2009-11-20 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:51:41 +0300 Michael wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 15:47, Anselm R Garbe wrote: > > Aehm I was saying vertical will become mainstream... > > Sorry, got to read more English. Happy to hear it, thanks. > I also read the original message as "will take it upstream (but no

Re: [dev] [OT]: Go programming language

2009-11-12 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:16:00 +1100 Jessta wrote: > The thing is that human beings don't really work well with lots of > things that are very similar, we get confused. Human beings prefer > things to be similar enough that we can use our previous knowledge to > figure them out but different enough

Re: [dev] dev+unsubscr...@suckless.org

2009-11-10 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 19:30:54 -0500 Kris Maglione wrote: > On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 06:16:43PM -0600, tosh wrote: > >unsubscribe > > For fuck's sake! It's not that hard, and we've just had this > discussion. Well, I hope you can figure this one out yourself, > or I suppose you'll have to stay sub

Re: [dev] [surf] segmentation fault

2009-10-31 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:31:58 +0100 cryptix wrote: > Hi, > > libwebkit-1.1.15.3-1 breaks surf (and i heard uzbl, too). > try to get 1.1.15.2-1, which might be in /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ if > you haven't cleaned after the update or just installed. > > > no problem, > > C. > > On 31.10.2009, at

Re: [dev] [surf] xprop (was: few bugs)

2009-10-29 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:04:57 +0100 Tadeusz Sośnierz wrote: > On 29-10-2009 19:59:17, markus schnalke wrote: > > The quoted mail makes me share my thoughts on surf's xprop > > interface: > > > > > > At first, it seems pretty nice how surf communicates with the > > outside. But on closer looks, I

Re: [dev] [surf] SIGSEGV with newest webkit on arch

2009-10-22 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:23:01 +0200 "Enno Boland (Gottox)" wrote: > hi! > > It seems this is caused by archlinux libwebkit release. Downgrade > you're webkit to an earlier release. uzbl has the same problem. For > some strange reason midori still works... > > regards what makes you think this i

Re: [dev] [surf] next release

2009-10-22 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:15:58 +0200 Tadeusz Sośnierz wrote: > On 22-10-2009 09:09:25, Charlie Kester wrote: > > On Thu 22 Oct 2009 at 05:20:44 PDT Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > > > > > >what consitutes a "session" ? it's something that is maintained > >

Re: [dev] [surf] next release

2009-10-22 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:11:54 -0400 (EDT) Peter John Hartman wrote: > > > On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Anselm R Garbe wrote: > > > 2009/10/21 Uriel : > >> Surf should *not* handle downloads or display source, this are > >> clearly and obviously best handled by external tools and there is > >> zero reas

Re: [dev] [surf] next release

2009-10-21 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:04:48 -0400 (EDT) Peter John Hartman wrote: > > > On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Anselm R Garbe wrote: > > > 2009/10/21 pancake : > >> I always use shift+insert or middleclick for pasting, what's the > >> unix way to paste? > >> ^p is already supported in surf, and mozilla load pa

Re: [dev] [surf] next release

2009-10-21 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:24:55 +0200 Julien Steinhauser wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 09:17:52AM -0400, Peter John Hartman wrote: > > > > What about cases in which one wishes to both type a few words and > > then paste? For example, when I want to do a smart prefix search > > (via dmenu) on Bob

Re: [dev] [surf] next release

2009-10-21 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:19:42 +0100 Anselm R Garbe wrote: > If this decision remains stable in surf, I'm willing to accept the > vertical menu patch in vanilla dmenu. that would be awesome <3 Dieter PS: uzbl also relies on dmenu with vertical patch and that probably won't change

Re: [dev] Suckless mail client solution?

2009-10-20 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:53:04 +0200 pancake wrote: > The current state of my minimalist email solution is quite hacky and > incomplete > but is starting to be functional and usable. I plan to publish the hg > repo where > the source is being developed in a week or two.. > > Actually I have a po

Re: [dev] Alternative for tabbing in web-browsers?

2009-10-08 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 11:13:38 +0200 Szabolcs Nagy wrote: > tell those ppl on the archlinux forum that there is already a > dedicated forum to dmenu, if they have some code modification in mind > they might want to share it here, and not on some random web forum > where noone finds it > > not to m

Re: [dev] wmii: fullscreen window, new window becomes floating?

2009-09-26 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 04:33:02 +0200 hiro <23h...@googlemail.com> wrote: > how about changing the code and keeping your own awesome patch? > I suck at C. I think that adding some customizability would be a good thing. Dieter

Re: [dev] wmii: fullscreen window, new window becomes floating?

2009-09-25 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:58:58 -0400 Kris Maglione wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:09:10PM +0200, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > >Thanks Kris, > >but: > >if my current layout is fullscreen, why doesn't the new window become > >fullscreen as well? (instead it t

Re: [dev] wmii: fullscreen window, new window becomes floating?

2009-09-24 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:16:27 -0400 Kris Maglione wrote: > On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 04:40:13PM +0200, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > >Hi, > >in wmii, let's say I go to a new tag, open a window, make sure it's > >not floating but rather the default layout. then i fullscree

Re: [dev] [surf] SearchEngines patch

2009-09-24 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:28:15 +1000 Jessta wrote: > On 24/09/2009, Nils wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:16:28AM +1000, Jessta wrote: > >> I don't think url parameter replacement is really the domain of the > >> web browser > > > > Oh yeah, you're right. My window manager should do it. > > >

[dev] wmii: fullscreen window, new window becomes floating?

2009-09-20 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
Hi, in wmii, let's say I go to a new tag, open a window, make sure it's not floating but rather the default layout. then i fullscreen this window. then i launch a new window (using dmenu or whatever) result: new window opens, but: 1) it's floating 2) it has focus If I then unfloat this window, 2

Re: [dev][surf] Next schedule?

2009-09-16 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:55:22 +0200 poz wrote: > 2009/9/16 Anselm R Garbe : > > > I think tab support in firefox/IE/chrome/Safari/Opera is just a ugly > > workaround due to the limitations present in floating desktop > > environments. Tab support is the WMs job -> use dwm and it'll work > > like

[dev] wmii: open new windows unfocused

2009-09-13 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
Hi, is there any way to start new clients without giving them focus? Right now i use a workaround: $app & sleep 0.3s wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl 'select up' Thanks. Dieter

Re: [dev] Talk about sane web browsers

2009-09-08 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 01:16:10 +0200 Uriel wrote: > No, I'm saying that I wish people would write or help write a browser > that sucks less. My point is that adding a coat of paint on top of an > existing browser (>90% of the browser is the rendering/js/etc. engine) > is not the same as writing that

Re: [dev] Talk about sane web browsers

2009-09-07 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Mon, 7 Sep 2009 21:35:50 +0200 markus schnalke wrote: > > Read my slides, I clearly state this: Take the broken render engine as > black box and add sane interfaces around. > (..) > > It's the web browser that complies better with the Unix Philosophy > than any other I've seen. Only the re

Re: [dev] Re: [surf] cookie race condition for multiple instances?

2009-09-04 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 21:52:02 -0400 Ray Kohler wrote: > On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Ray Kohler wrote: > > I'm curious as to whether a race condition is created for access to > > the soup cookie jar file when multiple instances of surf are running. > > libsoup's docs don't mention any safety me

Re: [dev] mapping keyboard buttons to move the mouse?

2009-08-26 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:29:34 - (UTC) hessi...@hessiess.com wrote: > I was wondering if it was possible to map keyboard buttons to move the > mouse cursor/ send mouse button events. For example, I was thinning of > having alt gr and the arrow buttons move the mouse cursor, and alt gr > + "z", "

Re: [dev] [last] lastfm interface

2009-08-25 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:58:30 +0200 Yoshi Rokuko wrote: > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 02:49:55PM -0400, Kris Maglione wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 08:27:05PM +0200, Yoshi Rokuko wrote: > > >just to clarify - my problem wasn't factotum, but to tell last to > > >play a certain station. > > > > Wr

[dev] suckless @ conferences?

2009-08-25 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
Hey, do any of the surf/wmii/.. hackers attend conferences? Dieter

Re: [dev] Surf development

2009-08-20 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:11:27 + Jacob Todd wrote: > I could never get vimpression to compile. I've been using uzbl for a > while now and have never had problems with it, the only thing it's > really missing for me is good cookie support. > What are you missing? I think cookie_daemon.py is pr

Re: [dev] [last] lastfm interface

2009-08-11 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:48:02 +0200 Markus Maria Miedaner wrote: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 09:22:06PM +0200, you (Yoshi Rokuko) wrote: > > a few days ago i tried out last[1]. i found out that it uses factotum > > and i managed to give factotum my lastfm-id but the sourcecode and/or > > the lastfm

Re: [dev] suckless touchscreen window manager

2009-07-24 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:41:51 - (UTC) hessi...@hessiess.com wrote: > > the thing is that i'll love to try archlinux > Arch won't work, it has no support for ARM processors, Gentoo maby? unofficial ARM port: http://www.archmobile.org/

Re: [dev] OT - suckless or not ? :)

2009-07-15 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:45:49 +0200 pmarin wrote: > Well, I think the "suck less" term is not original from our comunity. > The same happens with "the Unix philosophy" of XFCE (http://www.xfce.org/): > > "Xfce 4.6 embodies the traditional UNIX philosophy of modularity > and re-usability...

Re: [dev] surf: web browser on archlinux

2009-07-04 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sat, 4 Jul 2009 10:57:47 +0200 markus schnalke wrote: > [2009-07-03 22:51] Jacob Todd > > On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 10:39:41PM +0200, hiro wrote: > > > > > > Web browsers suck more and more. > > > > And that's where uzbl, surf, and vimpression come in. > > No. Leandro Chescotta said it alrea

Re: [dev] dwm / add tabs / attach/detach functionality

2009-06-22 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:38:22 -0400 Alex Kilgore wrote: > hiro wrote: > > What's wmii-X? > > > > > I think he meant X as in , and anyways, I think > that in this case, the whole "dwm v wmii" thing is merely a matter of > personal preference > Anyways, I at first thought in a similar

Re: [dev] dmenu / enso

2009-06-22 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:09:39 +0200 Antoni Grzymala wrote: > Donald Chai dixit (2009-06-22, 01:59): > > > I would admit that an interesting extension to dmenu would be the > > ability to provide possible completions after each space, i.e.: > > - open dmenu, list of commands shows up > > - I typ

Re: [dev] dmenu / enso

2009-06-22 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:45:11 +0100 (BST) "Kevin Nagel" wrote: > Dmenu shows you only a list of commands specified by PATH. It opens > the app then without any parameters and while selecting for an app > (or command) there is no description what it does. I think sth like > code completion + brief

Re: [dev] Suckless (*NIX|*BSD) Distribution?

2009-06-20 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:10:41 -0300 Leandro Chescotta wrote: > arch linux here... :P but looking at freebsd lately, only not trying > it because of the hardware of my msi wind, that has more linux support > > > On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 2:27 AM, Kurt H Maier > wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11

Re: [dev] last request for a dev-only list

2009-06-12 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:39:37 +0200 "Claudio M. Alessi" wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 01:46:20PM +0800, Samuel Baldwin wrote: > > Why can't people filter out messages with [OT] is the subject line? > Why can't people just stay on-topic? > > To me, people should avoid OT posts, should use filte

[dev] stacked mode: all titlebars on top of screen?

2009-06-08 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
Hi, when using the stacked layout in wmii is it possible to see all titlebars of the other windows always on top? I find it rather confusing that there can be titles above and below the focused window. Thanks, Dieter

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