Re: [dev] wmii unicode in the status? [SOLVED]
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, Eitan Goldshtrom wrote: I've been told that Ubuntu might not be the best choice for running wmii. I really only did it because at the time, and still really, I was only familiar with Ubuntu and didn't/don't have the time to familiarize myself with how to get around another linux distro -- I'm a thesising college student. But once I'm done with school I fully plan on moving to another distro, not just because of wmii *caugh*ubuntu sucks*caugh*. Lucky for me right now, however, the new build works perfectly. However Ubuntu does things seems to have made it so the upgrade build took hold automatically. So I'm good to go. Thanks everyone for the help. -Eitan On 01/24/2011 02:34 AM, Jeremy Jackins wrote: On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Eitan Goldshtrom wrote: So I had already done that, which made me wonder why you were suggesting it, because obviously I must have done something wrong when I tried to hg that URL. I hadn't realized that I needed to build that after getting it. I did and everything worked. I built wmii-3.9.2. Which leaves me now wondering, what next? I'm using Ubuntu. When I installed from the Ubuntu Software Center it added an option at the login for me to change desktop environments. Will this new build override that or do I need to do something else? I am under the impression that putting the expected line of code to start wmii with startx will not work for Ubuntu? If this is reaching outside the realm of wmii I can ask elsewhere. -Eitan Yes, you might want to take some of these questions to something like the Ubuntu IRC channel. You can use startx with Ubuntu but it's not really the Ubuntu way of doing things. Really, if you want to be using software like wmii maybe Ubuntu is not the right place for you... I normally just lurk on the mailing list, although I may have a potential solution for Eitan. I have put together a wmii fronted remaster of PCLinuxOS admittedly it uses wmii 3.6 at this time (with dwm for an alternate desktop) with a selection of apps (both GUI and CLI) that I think work well together. In putting it together I have developed an ever increasing love of apps that are lighter, quicker and simply suckless. Eitan, If you are interested it taking a look here is the link to the thread (and download link) on the PCLinuxOS forums http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,84400.msg699944.html#msg699944 Finally I want to thank the dev's at suckless.org not just for the great apps but also for opening my eyes. Thanks for reading Jase
Re: [dev] wmii theming
Tian, I use wmii-hg as part of my PCLinuxOS based WMii fronted iso. The per-user config files are in ~/.wmii-hg/wmiirc_local just add in what you want to change. 9you may need ~/.wmii/wmiirc_local - depending on which version of wmii you have installed I am not sure if SuSe uses a different location ( I have a config set up in /etc/skel/.wmii-hg/wmiirc so all new users get the same theme and base set up) While my iso is not what these guys would call a truly 'sucksless'release it has good hardware recognition and less messing about to get it working etc. I would also suggest looking at a few of the other 'sucksless' apps (ii + pcw is cool as is sic) Hope this helps Jase On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Le Tian wrote: Hello guys, I recently installed wmii on SUSE 11.4 and I really like it. MY question is very simple, how can I add themes to it. I tried to make a ~.wmii/wmii.rc file and add these lines there: #!/bin/sh -f # Configure wmii # Colors tuples: " " WMII_NORMCOLORS='#e0e0e0 #44 #66' WMII_FOCUSCOLORS='#A0FF00 #686363 #8c8c8c' WMII_BACKGROUND='#33' but nothing worked out. I also managed to find another wmii.rc in /usr/local/bin/, how do they correspond? How do I correctly setup custom theme for wmii on OpenSUSE 11.4? I have read man on wmii, but still the info is not very full, I wish there be some more tutorials on wmii configuration. Thank you guys for your hard work, I will appreciate if you help me on this. Tian
Re: [dev] wmii status bar config
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Le Tian wrote:
Hi again, I'm trying to find out how to make a custom status bar in wmii. I
have found "status()" lines in /home/wmii.rc file(hmmm what is it doing
here?!)
Maybe your '$HOME' env var was unset or improperly set at some point?
these is what I found:
status() {
Action status
if wmiir remove /rbar/status 2>/dev/null; then
echo "$WMII_NORMCOLORS" | wmiir create /rbar/status
while status | wmiir write /rbar/status; do
Action status &
I can barely understand it.
Posting a 'grep' without context is pretty worthless. The only section you
should care about is the part starting at 'status() {'.
So if anyone had an experience in setting up his custom bar, could you
please tip me how to do it, cause I don't know where to look else.
Look in the actual file, not the grep, and you should see something like:
# Status Bar Info
status() {
echo -n $(uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g') '|' $(date)
}
(I think that's the default for some version or another...)
The point is that whatever's in the function is what gets run each time the
status is updated.
If the custom script you mentioned in the first post is called do-the-thing,
and it's in your $PATH and executable, just change those four lines to:
# Status Bar Info
status() {
do-the-thing
}
--
Best,
Ben
Tian,
Here is a copy of my wmiirc_local including the status bar detail (the
variables at the top refer to key-bindings I set in the main wmiirc so that
all users get access to them and can customise the apps they use, I also
have autocutsel launch when I login so that parcellite and the term
clipboards are kept in sync
#
MODKEY=Mod4
WEB_BROWSER=jumanji
IRC_CLIENT="uxterm-256color" -e weechat-curses
EMAIL_CLIENT="uxterm-256color" -e alpine
#IRC_CLIENT="xterm +bdc -ai -vb +dc -bg black -fg green -e weechat-curses"
#EMAIL_CLIENT="xterm +bdc -ai -vb +dc -bg black -fg green -e alpine"
eval volti &
eval net_applet &
eval parcellite &
# Personised Colour
export WMII_NORMCOLORS='#bbc5ff #010101 #285577'
export WMII_FOCUSCOLORS='#a0ff00 #010101 #00'
export WMII_BACKGROUND='#00'
#export WMII_BACKGROUND='#010101'
#export WMII_FONT='-*-Sans-medium-r-*-*-9-*-*-*-*-*-*-*'
export WMII_FONT='-*-liberation sans-medium-r-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-*'
export WMII_TERM="uxterm -bg black -fg green"
#export WMII_TERM=st
# Status Bar Info for thinkpad
status() {
echo -n label ' Wlan0:' $(/sbin/iwconfig wlan0 | sed 's/ /\n/g' | grep
Quality) 'IP:' $(/sbin/ifconfig wlan0 | grep 'inet addr' | sed 's/\s*inet
addr://' | sed 's/ .*$//') '|' 'Bat:' $(acpi -b | sed 's/\s*Battery
0:\s*[a-zA-Z]*, //' | sed 's/,.*$//')' |' ' CPU:' $(cat /proc/cpuinfo |
grep 'cpu MHz' | sed 's/.*: //g; s/\..*//g;')'MHz ''Temp:'$(awk '{print
$2}' /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal)C' | ''Vol:' $(aumix-text -q | grep vol |
sed 's/vol [0-9]*, //' | sed 's/, P//')' | ' $(date +"%A %d %B %H:%M ")
}
#--
Which looks like this:
http://postimage.org/image/2o9ibfu5g/
I hope this helps you out.
Jase
Re: [dev] [surf] segfault
On Fri, 5 Aug 2011, hiro wrote: I don't actually need keyboard driven browsers. Of course I use shortcuts and prefer to hide all the bars, but I scroll and navigate pages mainly with my trackpoint or mouse. On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 23:18, Cengiz Tas wrote: I tested luakit which works for me. But there are two further keyboard driven browser based on webkit you should give a try. dwb and jumanji. I use XXXterm - its happy for both the mouse or the keyboard to drive it and is easy to configure beynd its defaults. (you can hide pretty much everything until you need it) http://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/xxxterm Jase
Re: [dev] New hardware migration
On Sun, 28 Aug 2011, Kurt H Maier wrote: wmii development has stalled and it would be worth axing it from suckless.org just so we don't get lost sheep wandering in here bleating questions about how to overcome wmii's horrible broken configuration mechanism. -- # Kurt H Maier 'horrible broken configuration mechanism' And there I thought it was a "feature" Jase
Re: [dev] monsterwm - 700 SLOC dwm fork
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011, Jason Dempsey wrote: The elitism appears to be thick in here. On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 16:56, Jason Dempsey wrote: My it's stifling in here...must be all the egos. On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 13:49, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: I love suckless' facility for coralling all the nitwits into one self-contained forum. It just sucks when some of the retardation leaks out into the real world. T,FTFY The real world is still safe. You're not. elitism here is a feature ok back to lurkin on the list as I am a ratpoison-using PCLinuxOS remastering loon that breaks into your real world from time-to-time, you are not safe ;) Jase
Re: [dev] regarding surf and cookie handling
g On Tue, 21 Feb 2012, Calvin Morrison wrote: you seem upset. stop it After posting here for the first time, I was met with hostile comments by Christoph. It is a little bit upsetting when someone attacks something you work on (be it a good or bad project). It was rather uncalled for. I suppose it shows the attitude of the list. I was merely posting here to point out something possibly helpful. I guess that warrants an attack on myself. no thank you for your helpful input. Goodbye, Calvin Morrison Calvin, Don't go getting upset & running away, this is one of the best mailing lists out there, with good, kind, & friendly folks, and yes I expect a bit of a slating. I am guessin' your an Arch Linux user, but thats ok, I am a PCLinuxOS user , my aim is to get the great neiche applications these guys do roll them into RPM packages and distribute via an iso them to the masses, so that they too can enjoy what suckless.org do and perhaps join this fantasticly entertaining mailing list. The guys on the list can be a little boisterous but they are good folks, you gotta roll with them punches /me back to rpm rolling and iso making. ;) Jase
