[dev] [dmenu] history patch updated r471

2011-12-07 Thread Suraj N. Kurapati
Hello, I have updated (attached) the dmenu history patch[1] to apply against the current tip revision 471:60d97462ff9d. Parts of the readstdin() function had to be run twice, so I did a quick & dirty #define, knowing that the C experts in the Suckless Community can suggest better ways. This patc

Re: [dev] DWM equivalent of wihack?

2011-12-07 Thread TJ Robotham
On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 06:46:13PM -0800, Suraj N. Kurapati wrote: > I want to launch a terminal with EWMH window type "dialog" so that it > opens in the floating layer but I don't want to add a rule to put *all* > terminals in the floating layer. In wmii, I would use the wihack tool > to accompli

Re: [dev] DWM equivalent of wihack?

2011-12-07 Thread Carlos Torres
you can set the -name of the terminal; that will set the WM_CLASS to , "XTerm" i.e. xterm -name TOPLESS is XTerm.TOPLESS or according to xprop WM_CLASS(STRING) = "TOPLESS", "XTerm" you can then set a line in config.h of dwm for that specific XTerm instance. --Carlos On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 9:46

[dev] DWM equivalent of wihack?

2011-12-07 Thread Suraj N. Kurapati
Hello, I want to launch a terminal with EWMH window type "dialog" so that it opens in the floating layer but I don't want to add a rule to put *all* terminals in the floating layer. In wmii, I would use the wihack tool to accomplish this. How could I achieve this in DWM? In particular, I'm tryi

Re: [dev] Shameless patch request

2011-12-07 Thread Patrick Haller
On 2011-12-07 11:04, Justin Pogue wrote: > At work, I typically have a terminal doing something like "while true; > do ls -l /var/cores && sleep 10 && clear; done" Jobs need two scriptable pathways to your brain: 1) an immediate attention interrupt, and 2) a handle when not busy interrupt. status

Re: [dev] Shameless patch request

2011-12-07 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:03:44 -, ilf wrote: On 12-07 11:04, Justin Pogue wrote: At work, I typically have a terminal doing something like "while true; do ls -l /var/cores && sleep 10 && clear; done", and it bugs me that I'm taking up so much screen space with things like that when all I need

Re: [dev] Shameless patch request

2011-12-07 Thread Justin Pogue
I hadn't thought of that. DVTM would work nicely I think. Still a neat idea for a patch imo. Maybe I'll take a swing at it and learn a thing or two. On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Daniel Kowalski wrote: > On 12/07/2011 06:04 PM, Justin Pogue wrote: >> At work, I typically have a terminal doi

Re: [dev] Shameless patch request

2011-12-07 Thread Justin Pogue
watch was my first choice over the bash one-liner, but its not available to me on the Solaris boxes that I'm watching. On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Evan Gates wrote: >> At work, I typically have a terminal doing something like "while true; >> do ls -l /var/cores && sleep 10 && clear; done", a

Re: [dev] Shameless patch request

2011-12-07 Thread Justin Pogue
I will probably try this and see if it's something I can work with. I feel like this would get clumsy fast since I am working with several different test machines and sometimes 2 or 3 of them simultaneously. On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 12:03 PM, ilf wrote: > On 12-07 11:04, Justin Pogue wrote: >> >> A

Re: [dev] Shameless patch request

2011-12-07 Thread Daniel Kowalski
On 12/07/2011 06:04 PM, Justin Pogue wrote: > At work, I typically have a terminal doing something like "while true; > do ls -l /var/cores && sleep 10 && clear; done", and it bugs me that > I'm taking up so much screen space with things like that when all I > need to be able to see is whether or no

Re: [dev] Shameless patch request

2011-12-07 Thread Evan Gates
> At work, I typically have a terminal doing something like "while true; > do ls -l /var/cores && sleep 10 && clear; done", and it bugs me that > I'm taking up so much screen space with things like that when all I > need to be able to see is whether or not there are any files being > created there.

Re: [dev] Shameless patch request

2011-12-07 Thread Bryan Bennett
or dzen2 if you need more than one line.

Re: [dev] Shameless patch request

2011-12-07 Thread ilf
On 12-07 11:04, Justin Pogue wrote: At work, I typically have a terminal doing something like "while true; do ls -l /var/cores && sleep 10 && clear; done", and it bugs me that I'm taking up so much screen space with things like that when all I need to be able to see is whether or not there are

[dev] Shameless patch request

2011-12-07 Thread Justin Pogue
At work, I typically have a terminal doing something like "while true; do ls -l /var/cores && sleep 10 && clear; done", and it bugs me that I'm taking up so much screen space with things like that when all I need to be able to see is whether or not there are any files being created there. All I ne