Re: [dev] [dwm] adding docking support

2011-10-16 Thread Christoph Lohmann
Greetings comrades, Anselm R Garbe wrote: > I'm back from a longer vacation and take this patch under review to > think if it would fit into mainline dwm. it should be under review for a longer time, until the touch front is able to show some more results. Otherwise the general scepticism of the

Re: [dev] Suckless way of checking Nagios?

2011-10-16 Thread Patrick Haller
On 2011-10-16 20:12, Sime Ramov wrote: > Hello. I need to keep track of one remote Nagios instance output, which > excludes cnagios[1]. While nagios output can be made "lite" [1], watching system stats all day does suck. Is permanently allocating visual space really your best interrupt vector (an

[dev] dmenu: mouse patch

2011-10-16 Thread Connor Lane Smith
Hey all, In case anyone's interested, here's a patch which adds some basic mouse support to dmenu. You can click things, click the paginators ("<" and ">"), and scroll. cls diff -r 6e962f2337c2 dmenu.c --- a/dmenu.c Sun Oct 16 18:26:11 2011 +0100 +++ b/dmenu.c Mon Oct 17 00:55:51 2011 +0100 @@ -

Re: [dev] [dwm] adding docking support

2011-10-16 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > First, docking is generally useful for panels. Dwm sucks as a status > bar. Should the information displayed in the status bar not be > properties on the root window to dwm? A panel can then keep track of > _NET_NUMBER_OF_DESKTOPS = 2^(N

Re: [dev] [dwm] adding docking support

2011-10-16 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
First, docking is generally useful for panels. Dwm sucks as a status bar. Should the information displayed in the status bar not be properties on the root window to dwm? A panel can then keep track of _NET_NUMBER_OF_DESKTOPS = 2^(NUMBER_OF_TAGS)-1 (or just NUMBER_OF_TAGS) and perhaps the current la

Re: [dev] Suckless way of checking Nagios?

2011-10-16 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Sime Ramov wrote: > * Nick [2011-10-16T20:37+0100]: >> Why not just get it to email you on state changes? > > Too many unimportant emails. This is a nagios misconfiguration, not a call for new software. Think about what you are asking: "I want a program to monit

Re: [dev] Suckless way of checking Nagios?

2011-10-16 Thread Sime Ramov
* Nick [2011-10-16T20:37+0100]: > Why not just get it to email you on state changes? Too many unimportant emails.

Re: [dev] Suckless way of checking Nagios?

2011-10-16 Thread Sime Ramov
* u...@netbeisser.de [2011-10-16T20:52+0200]: > Why curses? I had something like > tail -F messages | egrep '(CRIT|WARN)' Unfortunatelly, this specific instance is all over the place, tracking many servers, and tailing logs is not an option. I need something more visual. Something like cnagios,

Re: [dev] Suckless way of checking Nagios?

2011-10-16 Thread Nick
Quoth Sime Ramov: > Hello. I need to keep track of one remote Nagios instance output, which > excludes cnagios[1]. Why not just get it to email you on state changes? pgpeEklK6xw6r.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [dev] Suckless way of checking Nagios?

2011-10-16 Thread u
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 08:12:30PM +0200, Sime Ramov wrote: > Hello. I need to keep track of one remote Nagios instance output, which > excludes cnagios[1]. > > Is there a good tool somewhere, maybe with curses interface or > something? Right now, I have the original Nagios page opened in browser,

[dev] Suckless way of checking Nagios?

2011-10-16 Thread Sime Ramov
Hello. I need to keep track of one remote Nagios instance output, which excludes cnagios[1]. Is there a good tool somewhere, maybe with curses interface or something? Right now, I have the original Nagios page opened in browser, and am not happy with such solution, would love something simpler. [

Re: [dev] [dwm] adding docking support

2011-10-16 Thread Kurt H Maier
On 10/16/11, Peter John Hartman <> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 12:13:03PM -0400, Kurt H Maier wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Anselm R Garbe <> >> wrote: >> > Do we really agree that touch interfaces do suck less? > > I think there's a category error or something here. Touch inter

Re: [dev] [dwm] adding docking support

2011-10-16 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 16 October 2011 18:30, Peter John Hartman wrote: > On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 12:13:03PM -0400, Kurt H Maier wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Anselm R Garbe wrote: >> > Do we really agree that touch interfaces do suck less? > > I think there's a category error or something here.  Touch

[dev] sharpening the suckless philosophy

2011-10-16 Thread Anselm R Garbe
Having asked the question on touch interfaces, I think I need to elicit some basic guidelines during the next weeks in order to achieve a better hygiene of the project. May I ask about the efforts of relocating wmii? Cheers, Anselm

Re: [dev] [dmenu] composite key not working

2011-10-16 Thread Connor Lane Smith
On 16/10/2011, Troels Henriksen wrote: > Here's a patch that solves the common cases. There's a ton of potential > issues (complex Unicode in the input) that may require more reworking, > but this patch makes dead keys work for any of the cases on my communist > European keyboard. Thanks. I've p

Re: [dev] [dwm] adding docking support

2011-10-16 Thread Peter John Hartman
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 12:13:03PM -0400, Kurt H Maier wrote: > On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Anselm R Garbe wrote: > > Do we really agree that touch interfaces do suck less? I think there's a category error or something here. Touch interfaces, indeed, entire touch-driven devices exist. Suc

Re: [dev] [dwm] adding docking support

2011-10-16 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Anselm R Garbe wrote: > Do we really agree that touch interfaces do suck less? No. -- # Kurt H Maier

Re: [dev] [dwm] adding docking support

2011-10-16 Thread markus schnalke
[2011-10-16 17:54] Anselm R Garbe > > Do we really agree that touch interfaces do suck less? No. meillo

Re: [dev] [dwm] adding docking support

2011-10-16 Thread Anselm R Garbe
Hi together, On 9 October 2011 21:17, Christoph Lohmann <2...@r-36.net> wrote: > attached is the patch I proposed some months ago, to add support > for dock windows in dwm, polished for current r1575:b899c8748939. I'm back from a longer vacation and take this patch under review to think if it wou

Re: [dev] [dmenu] composite key not working

2011-10-16 Thread Troels Henriksen
Connor Lane Smith writes: > Hey, > > On 16/10/2011, Troels Henriksen wrote: >> You can't. dmenu does not implement the X11 input context protocol. It >> could in a few dozen lines of code, though. > > I would happily accept a patch for this. Here's a patch that solves the common cases. There

Re: [dev] [dmenu] composite key not working

2011-10-16 Thread Connor Lane Smith
Hey, On 16/10/2011, Troels Henriksen wrote: > You can't. dmenu does not implement the X11 input context protocol. It > could in a few dozen lines of code, though. I would happily accept a patch for this. Thanks, cls

Re: [dev] [dmenu] composite key not working

2011-10-16 Thread Peter John Hartman
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 01:45:51PM +0200, Troels Henriksen wrote: > Swiatoslaw Gal writes: > > > What may I do to enable composite key (defined with setxkbmap > > as compose:rctrl) with dmenu? It works with st, though. > > You can't. dmenu does not implement the X11 input context protocol. It

Re: [dev] [dmenu] composite key not working

2011-10-16 Thread Troels Henriksen
Swiatoslaw Gal writes: > What may I do to enable composite key (defined with setxkbmap > as compose:rctrl) with dmenu? It works with st, though. You can't. dmenu does not implement the X11 input context protocol. It could in a few dozen lines of code, though. -- \ Troels /\ Henriksen

[dev] [dmenu] composite key not working

2011-10-16 Thread Swiatoslaw Gal
What may I do to enable composite key (defined with setxkbmap as compose:rctrl) with dmenu? It works with st, though. Thanks in advance, s.