Re: [dev] Distribution

2011-06-03 Thread Andrew Hills
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:22 PM, John Matthewman wrote: > Arch is loaded with suck. You mean their package manager allows you to install software that's not from suckless.org? --Andrew Hills

Re: [dev] Distribution

2011-06-03 Thread John Matthewman
On 6/3/11, Sir Cyrus wrote: > What's the most suckless Linux distribution? Maybe slackware? Arch is loaded with suck. While debian (stable) is definitely not what most -- if not all? -- people would describe as suckless, it is what I use on my computer. John PS: as somebody else said, this di

Re: [dev] PATCH for/back navigation with xprop

2011-06-03 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On 6/3/11, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > This is normal proceedure for FVWM and worked very smoothly on 8MB 486s. > Even the numerous restarts needed to fine-tune FVWM configuration weren't a > terrible problem on that old 486. In contrast, today every app has all its > own buttons and memory usage

Re: [dev] Distribution

2011-06-03 Thread Jonathan Slark
On 03/06/2011 12:41, Sir Cyrus wrote: What's the most suckless Linux distribution? This has been covered a few times on the list so you should search the archives online. I do agree the main problem with Linux Distributions is the GNU stuff. The BSDs are a good alternative as they try and a

Re: [dev] Cleanup of (hg.)suckless.org

2011-06-03 Thread Connor Lane Smith
Hey, On 3 June 2011 17:35, garbeam wrote: > DELETE Happy with all of them. > RELOCATE > - libixp (google code) ?? I'm unsure about this one. libixp has a few problems, imo, namely the directories lib/libixp_rubythread (Ruby bindings in trunk? Really?) and man (auto-generated, and broken). But

Re: [dev] Cleanup of (hg.)suckless.org

2011-06-03 Thread Suraj N. Kurapati
On Fri 03 Jun 2011 05:35:43 PM PDT, garbeam wrote: > RELOCATE - wmiirc-rumai (google code) ?? You can delete that because it's already/officially hosted outside: https://github.com/sunaku/rumai > As an alternative, I'd like to suggest that wmii 4.0 could also > well share the code of dwm 6.0 wit

[dev] Cleanup of (hg.)suckless.org

2011-06-03 Thread garbeam
Hi there, I'm reviewing the cruft that we have collected during the years at hg.suckless.org and identified some candidates I would like to delete and some other candidates that should be relocated elsewhere: DELETE - 9libs - diri - genosite - gentoo - godwm - libdraw.old - make - stali-toolchain

Re: [dev] PATCH for/back navigation with xprop

2011-06-03 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Fri, 3 Jun 2011 11:32:32 + Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > On 6/3/11, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > > I don't get it... Back & forward are native to the browser, running programs > > is native to any WM of FVWM's era, and app-specific buttons are a native > > feature of FVWM, and fairly simple

Re: [dev] Distribution

2011-06-03 Thread garbeam
On 3 June 2011 12:41, Sir Cyrus wrote: > What's the most suckless Linux distribution? http://bellard.org/jslinux/ --garbeam

Re: [dev] PATCH for/back navigation with xprop

2011-06-03 Thread Andrew Hills
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > Having every maprequest checked to see if it's from surf, in which > case buttons are to be drawn, or if it's from {mplayer > or VLC} in which case a button is to be drawn, etc, > instead of the surf executable containing the relevant i

Re: [dev] Distribution

2011-06-03 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Fri, 3 Jun 2011 13:47:49 +0200 pmarin wrote: > Linux ≠ suckless s/Linux/Gnu/ The more I learn about Linux the more I think the real problems are outside the kernel. There are problems within the kernel, of course, but if you have to have a modern unix the Linux kernel at least can at least

Re: [dev] Distribution

2011-06-03 Thread Jacob Todd
Sabotage.

Re: [dev] Distribution

2011-06-03 Thread Bryan Bennett
GRML, {Micro|Tiny}core, or TTYLinux would be my votes for 'minimalistic' Crux for general ideaology.

Re: [dev] Distribution

2011-06-03 Thread Pieter Praet
On Fri, 3 Jun 2011 12:41:24 +0100, Sir Cyrus wrote: > What's the most suckless Linux distribution? > Perhaps not the *most* suckless, but Arch [1] is a very worthy contender IMHO. Their manifesto [2] is very similar to suckless.org's. [1] https://www.archlinux.org/ [2] https://wiki.archlinux.o

Re: [dev] Distribution

2011-06-03 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On 6/3/11, pmarin wrote: > Linux ≠ suckless > Linux is extremely configurable, at configure time. You can make it into whatever your want at build time, strip out the support for BSD slices, SCSI and ATA and it'll just run (or not run, that is the question). It's not even hackish.

Re: [dev] Distribution

2011-06-03 Thread Le Tian
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:47 AM, pmarin wrote: > Linux ≠ suckless > > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Sir Cyrus wrote: > > What's the most suckless Linux distribution? > > > > > > http://www.minimalinux.org/ttylinux/ Tian

Re: [dev] Distribution

2011-06-03 Thread pmarin
Linux ≠ suckless On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Sir Cyrus wrote: > What's the most suckless Linux distribution? > >

Re: [dev] Distribution

2011-06-03 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On 6/3/11, Sir Cyrus wrote: > What's the most suckless Linux distribution? > The one you made yourself.

[dev] Distribution

2011-06-03 Thread Sir Cyrus
What's the most suckless Linux distribution?

Re: [dev] PATCH for/back navigation with xprop

2011-06-03 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On 6/3/11, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > I don't get it... Back & forward are native to the browser, running programs > is native to any WM of FVWM's era, and app-specific buttons are a native > feature of FVWM, and fairly simple to use as FVWM features go. What am I > missing? > Having every mapre

Re: [dev] PATCH for/back navigation with xprop

2011-06-03 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Fri, 3 Jun 2011 09:26:57 + Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > On 6/3/11, Jon Bradley wrote: > > Here is a patch I whipped up to add forward/back navigation with xprop. > > I use it to put buttons on the fvwm windows title bar > > of all surf instances. > > > At that point, wouldn't this be bett

Re: [dev] [st] revised mouse handling/reporting

2011-06-03 Thread Bert Münnich
On 03.06.11, Aurélien Aptel wrote: > On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 2:28 PM, pancake wrote: > > I wonder if those patches are going to be commited.. I find them right. > > But it's about the third patch in a week without any reply.. > > I've already committed some of them them locally, not finished yet.

Re: [dev] PATCH for/back navigation with xprop

2011-06-03 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On 6/3/11, Jon Bradley wrote: > Here is a patch I whipped up to add forward/back navigation with xprop. > I use it to put buttons on the fvwm windows title bar > of all surf instances. > At that point, wouldn't this be better implemented in (a wrapper around) surf?

Re: [dev] [st] revised mouse handling/reporting

2011-06-03 Thread Aurélien Aptel
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 2:28 PM, pancake wrote: > I wonder if those patches are going to be commited.. I find them right. > But it's about the third patch in a week without any reply.. I've already committed some of them them locally, not finished yet. The reverse video one doesn't behave like xt