Re: [dev] Announcing a4, a dynamic terminal window manager

2023-01-03 Thread fossy
> Many reasons. Lexi Summer Hale (https://xn--rpa.cc/irl/term.html) was > influential. libtickit's better handling of colors was a big driver. The > author, Paul "LeoNerd" Evans, is wonderful to work with, and also provides > libvterm, which is more processing that shouldn't be implemented

Re: [dev] Announcing a4, a dynamic terminal window manager

2023-01-02 Thread Ross Mohn
On 1/2/23 12:31, fo...@dnmx.org wrote: Announcing the first public code release of a4, a dynamic terminal... I haven't tried it, but looks hot as fuck! Why replace ncurses? Is it bloated than the ~700 or how-many lines was it, this other lib? Many reasons. Lexi Summer Hale

Re: [dev] Announcing a4, a dynamic terminal window manager

2023-01-02 Thread fossy
> Announcing the first public code release of a4, a dynamic terminal... I haven't tried it, but looks hot as fuck! Why replace ncurses? Is it bloated than the ~700 or how-many lines was it, this other lib?

Re: [dev] Announcing a4, a dynamic terminal window manager

2023-01-02 Thread Pedro Lucas Porcellis
Neat, will do a test-drive today and package it to Alpine Linux! Cheers, Pedro Lucas Porcellis

[dev] Announcing a4, a dynamic terminal window manager

2023-01-01 Thread Ross Mohn
Announcing the first public code release of a4, a dynamic terminal window manager. There are still improvements to be made but the tool is essentially working now. A4 is a partial rewrite of dvtm, which in turn is a text-based implementation of dwm. A4 replaces the ncurses back end with