[DNG] Lightdm

2016-01-23 Thread Ozi Traveller
Hi Does lightdm support a .face 95 x 95 px file /home as the image to display on the login dialog? Debian lightdm does. Cheers Ozi ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] "Common knowledge?"-question

2016-01-23 Thread Peter Olson
> On January 23, 2016 at 1:36 PM Rainer Weikusat > wrote: > > Peter Olson writes: > 5>> On January 22, 2016 at 4:34 PM Rainer Weikusat > wrote: > > [...] > > >> p = buf = alloca(total); > > [...] > > > the failure mode of alloca is SIGSEGV or some other malfunction and > > there is no

[DNG] Readable code; making code more easily writable; Emacs, multifiles-apmod; VUE; Code Bubbles; Lisp; Inform 7; HyperCard and HyperTalk - was Re: "Common knowledge?"-question

2016-01-23 Thread Apollia
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Rainer Weikusat < rainerweiku...@virginmedia.com> wrote: > Can the effect of the following C function > > static void print_start(char const *name, char const *what) > { > char *buf, *p; > unsigned name_len, what_len, total; > > name_len = strlen(name);

Re: [DNG] Does dunst require dbus?

2016-01-23 Thread Teodoro Santoni
2016-01-23 21:44 GMT+01:00, Steve Litt : > Suckless Tools terminals are very low footprint, but they also lack > features necessary for certain tasks. IIRC you'd never use one for a > login terminal, and IIRC they can't be told to run a certain script > (like xterm -e). But they often suffice, and

[DNG] Confusion on virtio-pci driver on kernel 3.16.7 vs 4.1.15

2016-01-23 Thread Anto
Hello Everybody, I am not sure where I should post this question so I try it here first. On my KVM VPS, I am trying to get the UnixBench score of kernel 4.1.5 to the same level as the one of Devuan kernel 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u3. The issue is mainly on the performance of running parallel process

Re: [DNG] Self documenting code

2016-01-23 Thread Nate Bargmann
I really never thought I'd see an article on programming that managed to pull both Grace Slick and Culture Club in as a relevant plot vehicles. Well done, Steve. :-D - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham rad

Re: [DNG] "Common knowledge?"-question

2016-01-23 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 23/01/2016 19:28, Rainer Weikusat a écrit : Didier Kryn writes: Le 23/01/2016 12:16, Didier Kryn a écrit : I'm curious of the reason why you specify static void print_start(char const *name, char const *what) This means the pointers to the arrays of characters are constant

Re: [DNG] Does dunst require dbus?

2016-01-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 23 Jan 2016 20:10:31 +0100 Florian Zieboll wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jan 2016 00:09:23 -0500 > Steve Litt wrote: > > > different color terminals for > > ssh sessions > > I had played a bit with the tiling and highly (GUI) configurable > "Terminator" but was bounced back to xterm very quick

Re: [DNG] "Common knowledge?"-question

2016-01-23 Thread karl
Katola2: ... > void another_print_start(char *name, char *what){ > > char c[3] = " :"; > > c[2] = name[0] & ~0x20; > > write(2, c+2, 1); > write(2, name+1, strlen(name) -1); > write(2, c, 2); > write(2, what, strlen(what)); > > } Why not just use writev(2) and write it one system call ?

Re: [DNG] Does dunst require dbus?

2016-01-23 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 08:10:31PM +0100, Florian Zieboll wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jan 2016 00:09:23 -0500 > Steve Litt wrote: > > > different color terminals for > > ssh sessions > > I had played a bit with the tiling and highly (GUI) configurable > "Terminator" but was bounced back to xterm very qu

Re: [DNG] Does dunst require dbus?

2016-01-23 Thread Florian Zieboll
On Fri, 22 Jan 2016 00:09:23 -0500 Steve Litt wrote: > different color terminals for > ssh sessions I had played a bit with the tiling and highly (GUI) configurable "Terminator" but was bounced back to xterm very quickly due to its footprint and wrote the following secremote.sh script. It has no

Re: [DNG] "Common knowledge?"-question

2016-01-23 Thread KatolaZ
On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 06:36:46PM +, Rainer Weikusat wrote: > Peter Olson writes: > 5>> On January 22, 2016 at 4:34 PM Rainer Weikusat > wrote: > > [...] > > >> p = buf = alloca(total); > > [...] > > > the failure mode of alloca is SIGSEGV or some other malfunction and > > there i

Re: [DNG] "Common knowledge?"-question

2016-01-23 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Peter Olson writes: 5>> On January 22, 2016 at 4:34 PM Rainer Weikusat wrote: [...] >> p = buf = alloca(total); [...] > the failure mode of alloca is SIGSEGV or some other malfunction and > there is no way to test for it It's supposed to allocate memory in the current stack frame whic

Re: [DNG] "Common knowledge?"-question

2016-01-23 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Didier Kryn writes: > Le 23/01/2016 12:16, Didier Kryn a écrit : >> >> I'm curious of the reason why you specify >>static void print_start(char const *name, char const *what) >> >> This means the pointers to the arrays of characters are constant >> (not the characters). [...] >

Re: [DNG] "Common knowledge?"-question

2016-01-23 Thread KatolaZ
On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 06:59:10PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: [cut] > > The syntax used by Rainer is usefull when declaring in the same > statement constant and non-constant characters, which I, personnaly, > try to avoid because it is confusing. Confusing statements simply > boost the probab

Re: [DNG] "Common knowledge?"-question

2016-01-23 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 23/01/2016 14:48, Hendrik Boom a écrit : I've always said the C syntax for declarators was confusing. Even those who understand it read it wrong! (Yes, In understand the logic behind it. It is still confusing.) I fully agree: it's confusing. Actually, in a single statement one can

Re: [DNG] "Common knowledge?"-question

2016-01-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 11:45:30AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jan 2016 21:34:28 + > Rainer Weikusat wrote: > > > Can the effect of the following C function > > > > static void print_start(char const *name, char const *what) > > { > > char *buf, *p; > > unsigned name_len, w

Re: [DNG] "Common knowledge?"-question

2016-01-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 04:45:05PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: > Le 23/01/2016 12:16, Didier Kryn a écrit : > > > >I'm curious of the reason why you specify > > static void print_start(char const *name, char const *what) > > > >This means the pointers to the arrays of characters are > >cons

[DNG] Self documenting code

2016-01-23 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, Rainer's question brings up the concept of self-documenting code. Here's an essay I wrote on the subject almost 2 decades ago: http://troubleshooters.com/tpromag/199908/index.htm SteveT Steve Litt January 2016 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting http://www.troubleshoot

Re: [DNG] "Common knowledge?"-question

2016-01-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 22 Jan 2016 21:34:28 + Rainer Weikusat wrote: > Can the effect of the following C function > > static void print_start(char const *name, char const *what) > { > char *buf, *p; > unsigned name_len, what_len, total; > > name_len = strlen(name); > what_len = strlen(what

Re: [DNG] "Common knowledge?"-question

2016-01-23 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 23/01/2016 12:16, Didier Kryn a écrit : I'm curious of the reason why you specify static void print_start(char const *name, char const *what) This means the pointers to the arrays of characters are constant (not the characters). The effect of this cannot be to protect the pointe

[DNG] Free Software Foundation (FSF) Vision Survey

2016-01-23 Thread Apollia
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is doing a survey until the end of January: https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/profile/create?gid=403&reset=1&pk_campaign=survey-launch&pk_kwd=survey The FSF's blog post about it: http://www.fsf.org/news/whats-your-vision-for-the-fsf-fill-out-our-survey-1 A couple quo

Re: [DNG] "Common knowledge?"-question

2016-01-23 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 22/01/2016 22:34, Rainer Weikusat a écrit : Can the effect of the following C function static void print_start(char const *name, char const *what) { char *buf, *p; unsigned name_len, what_len, total; name_len = strlen(name); what_len = strlen(what); total = name_len

Re: [DNG] "Common knowledge?"-question

2016-01-23 Thread KatolaZ
On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 02:10:46AM -0500, Peter Olson wrote: [cut] > > I'm unhappy for two reasons: > > the failure mode of alloca is SIGSEGV or some other malfunction and there is > no way to test for it > > the *buf &= ~0x20; breaks for UTF8 strings. > > Nevermind that the function impl