Re: [dev] flextile - nmaster redundant

2011-12-22 Thread Suraj N. Kurapati
On Thu 22 Dec 2011 03:49:32 PM PST, Connor Lane Smith wrote: > you may be interested in flextile [1]. > [1]: http://dwm.suckless.org/patches/flextile This patch needs some love. Particularly, nmaster is built into dwm now so the mastersplit and shiftmastersplit() are redundant. -- HOST SYSTEM R

Re: [dev] [wmii] widgets with graphics?

2011-12-22 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 02:52:28AM +0100, Florian Limberger wrote: > I know what you are displaying, I use a slightly modified version of > the status.sh script you posted once. Thanks though. That script in its current incarnation is about 1/10th the size it was when I posted it. > I know yo

Re: [dev] [wmii] widgets with graphics?

2011-12-22 Thread Florian Limberger
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:34:12 -0500, Kurt H Maier wrote: A one-letter prefix doesn't help you? b50% s70%? I don't even do that much. I used to just have it read, e.g., 50% 70% and I used my amazing pattern-recognition skills to discern that the battery life was mysteriously always first in tha

Re: [dev] [wmii] widgets with graphics?

2011-12-22 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 04:27:35PM +0100, Florian Limberger wrote: > then how do you distinguish the percentage of battery load and the > percentage of wifi signal strength? Sometimes, I don't care if wifi > signal quality is exactly 87% or 78%, It would suffice if I knew if it > is over 25%, 5

Re: [dev] sbase ls patch

2011-12-22 Thread anonymous
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:10:49PM -, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > >Tiny cleanup patch. Now more memory is allocated than necessary. > Is that a good thing or a typo? > Now more memory is allocated than necessary, but after applying this patch it will allocate just as much memory as required.

Re: [dev] sbase ls patch

2011-12-22 Thread Rob
On 22 December 2011 23:10, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: >> Tiny cleanup patch.  Now more memory is allocated than necessary. > > Is that a good thing or a typo? Looking at the code, it appears to be a typo, now the exact amount of memory is allocated Rob

Re: [dev] sbase ls patch

2011-12-22 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
Tiny cleanup patch. Now more memory is allocated than necessary. Is that a good thing or a typo?

[dev] sbase ls patch

2011-12-22 Thread anonymous
Tiny cleanup patch. Now more memory is allocated than necessary. diff -r dcb29ce4485f ls.c --- a/ls.c Tue Nov 08 19:35:38 2011 +0100 +++ b/ls.c Fri Dec 23 02:34:01 2011 +0400 @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ many = (argc > optind+1); if((n = argc - optind) > 0) { - if(!(

Re: [dev] [wmii] widgets with graphics?

2011-12-22 Thread Suraj N. Kurapati
On Thu 22 Dec 2011 11:54:21 AM PST, Seth Hover wrote: > Is there a reason you're not just using awesome? Subjectively, I like C and Ruby better than Lua. Architecturally, I like that DWM is minimal, having a very limited statusbar, because I can use a better tool for the job (dzen2) or even go ov

Re: [dev] [wmii] widgets with graphics?

2011-12-22 Thread Seth Hover
whoops, I missed the [wmii] tag. Please ignore my last post. --sth On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Seth Hover wrote: > Is there a reason you're not just using awesome? > > -sth > > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Suraj N. Kurapati wrote: > >> On Thu 22 Dec 2011 02:44:54 PM PST, dtk wrote: >

Re: [dev] [wmii] widgets with graphics?

2011-12-22 Thread Seth Hover
Is there a reason you're not just using awesome? -sth On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Suraj N. Kurapati wrote: > On Thu 22 Dec 2011 02:44:54 PM PST, dtk wrote: > > is there a way to have widgets in the status bar display images > > instead of utf8 symbols? > > I gave up on this approach for DW

Re: [dev] network usage graphs

2011-12-22 Thread Suraj N. Kurapati
On Thu 22 Dec 2011 01:58:45 PM PST, hiro wrote: > I want to display a more complicated network with multiple streams > of different services, multiple interfaces, multiple clients, > multiple uplinks. > > http://wiki.linuxwall.info/lib/exe/fetch.php/fr:ressources:dossiers:networking:figure9-tcgraph

Re: [dev] wmii falling out of favor

2011-12-22 Thread Suraj N. Kurapati
On Thu 22 Dec 2011 02:05:36 PM PST, Jacob Todd wrote: > On Dec 22, 2011 12:03 PM, "Suraj N. Kurapati" > wrote: > > Now that you mention it, I rarely use this feature because it's too > > coarse grained. For instance, I have tags pre-allocated for > > particular tasks so viewing more than one of t

Re: [dev] wmii falling out of favor

2011-12-22 Thread Jacob Todd
On Dec 22, 2011 12:03 PM, "Suraj N. Kurapati" wrote: > Now that you mention it, I rarely use this feature because it's too > coarse grained. For instance, I have tags pre-allocated for particular > tasks so viewing more than one of them simultaneously pulls in too many > unrelated clients into my

Re: [dev] wmii falling out of favor

2011-12-22 Thread Suraj N. Kurapati
On Thu 22 Dec 2011 06:07:05 PM PST, Connor Lane Smith wrote: > On 22 December 2011 18:02, Suraj N. Kurapati wrote: > > Multi-tagging is cool and useful, but too coarse grained in DWM. > > I don't understand what you mean. In dwm a single client can have > multiple tags, and one can also view multip

Re: [dev] wmii falling out of favor

2011-12-22 Thread Connor Lane Smith
On 22 December 2011 18:02, Suraj N. Kurapati wrote: > In contrast, WMII has fine-grained multi-tagging (a client can appear > on multiple views) so I would either (1) choose a client from dmenu to > pull into my current view or (2) go to the tag I want and multi-tag the > clients that I'm interest

Re: [dev] wmii falling out of favor

2011-12-22 Thread Suraj N. Kurapati
On Thu 22 Dec 2011 04:57:24 PM PST, Connor Lane Smith wrote: > In dwm you can view multiple tags at the same time, which pulls all > clients with that tag into view. (Which is really amazing once you get > used to it. Other window managers just make me feel really > constrained.) Now that you ment

Re: [dev] wmii falling out of favor

2011-12-22 Thread Suraj N. Kurapati
On Thu 22 Dec 2011 04:36:55 PM PST, dtk wrote: > I just cannot see how to do the stuff I feel I need with static > layouts. And since I don't believe that manual layouts are what > bloat wmii, I fail to understand why I cannot haz them :/ Worse, I > fail to see why I'm the only one who wants them *

Re: [dev] [wmii] widgets with graphics?

2011-12-22 Thread Suraj N. Kurapati
On Thu 22 Dec 2011 02:44:54 PM PST, dtk wrote: > is there a way to have widgets in the status bar display images > instead of utf8 symbols? I gave up on this approach for DWM and used dzen2 as my status bar instead: https://github.com/sunaku/.dwm/blob/master/dwm-statusbar (Pictured at bottom of

Re: [dev] wmii falling out of favor

2011-12-22 Thread Connor Lane Smith
On 22 December 2011 16:36, dtk wrote: > nope, 32 is aplenty. Thing is, in wmii I create them on demand and name > them dynamically (to reflect their purpose), which conveniently groups > them as well. I just don't want the tag I do development of project A on > to be on tag 5. Today. And on tag 6

Re: [dev] wmii falling out of favor

2011-12-22 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
Somebody claiming to be dtk wrote: This is why dwm has tags: just don't view the tags you aren't using. Like you say, tag clients according to their role, and then by definition those which are not being used needn't be seen. However, you may be interested in flextile [1]. wouldn't be used to l

Re: [dev] [wmii] widgets with graphics?

2011-12-22 Thread dtk
On 12/22/2011 04:38 PM, Justin Pogue wrote: > Sidestepping the holy-war topic here, I'd like to point out that there > are plenty of status bars out there like tint2 and dzen2 that you > could use. k. Was just reluctant to integrate it. Redirecting all the information there. wmii's status bar basi

Re: [dev] wmii falling out of favor

2011-12-22 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 12/22/11 at 04:47pm, hiro wrote: > lol, people on suckless don't actually use their window managers, they > brag about it and rewrite it and rewrite it and rewrite it. It's more > of a hobby than a necessity for them. > The claim is that when this people finish rewriting dwm then go write their

Re: [dev] [wmii] widgets with graphics?

2011-12-22 Thread dtk
On 12/22/2011 04:27 PM, Florian Limberger wrote: >> The general consensus is that sprinkling icons everywhere actually >> makes the interface far more complicated and distracting, and >> generally quite *bad*. While there *are* some exceptions where icons >> are more compact, they are rare. Yupp.

Re: [dev] wmii falling out of favor

2011-12-22 Thread hiro
lol, people on suckless don't actually use their window managers, they brag about it and rewrite it and rewrite it and rewrite it. It's more of a hobby than a necessity for them.

Re: [dev] [wmii] widgets with graphics?

2011-12-22 Thread Florian Limberger
I just looked at the screenshot linked by the OP, and thats indeed wrong usage of icons, IMHO. I argued againts the wifi signal example, not for replacing descriptive names of applications with crappy logos without any expressivenes. How the fuck can a wolf represent an audio application? At le

Re: [dev] [wmii] widgets with graphics?

2011-12-22 Thread Justin Pogue
Sidestepping the holy-war topic here, I'd like to point out that there are plenty of status bars out there like tint2 and dzen2 that you could use. I've even heard of people using DWM in conjunction with xfce-panel. A patch to add the same functionality that one of these examples already does ver

Re: [dev] wmii falling out of favor

2011-12-22 Thread dtk
Hey, thx for your quick response! On 12/22/2011 03:49 PM, Connor Lane Smith wrote: > On 22 December 2011 15:35, dtk wrote: >> I tag clients according to the topic they deal with (yess, I have >> *several* Firefox windows open on different tags at any given point in >> time -.-), which is why sta

Re: [dev] [wmii] widgets with graphics?

2011-12-22 Thread Florian Limberger
Hello, The general consensus is that sprinkling icons everywhere actually makes the interface far more complicated and distracting, and generally quite *bad*. While there *are* some exceptions where icons are more compact, they are rare. Consider the meter widgets people are obsessed with putti

Re: [dev] [wmii] widgets with graphics?

2011-12-22 Thread Connor Lane Smith
Hey, On 22 December 2011 14:44, dtk wrote: > I just saw it > yesterday in awesome[0] and think it was a pretty neat feature to > display information in a compact yet intuitive way. The general consensus is that sprinkling icons everywhere actually makes the interface far more complicated and dis

Re: [dev] wmii falling out of favor

2011-12-22 Thread Connor Lane Smith
Hey, On 22 December 2011 15:35, dtk wrote: > I tag clients according to the topic they deal with (yess, I have > *several* Firefox windows open on different tags at any given point in > time -.-), which is why static tagging with a predefined number of tags > works really really bad for me :/ Th

Re: [dev] [wmii] widgets with graphics?

2011-12-22 Thread dtk
On 12/22/2011 02:49 PM, hiro wrote: > What are widgets? Encapsulated, reusable functionality that displays information in the status bar. Whole onmouseover thing and such... dtk

Re: [dev] wmii falling out of favor

2011-12-22 Thread dtk
On 11/15/2011 06:59 AM, Suraj N. Kurapati wrote: > On Thu 10 Nov 2011 09:29:53 PM PST, Anselm R Garbe wrote: >> wmii is cursed. Its code base has grown by factor 3 or 4 in terms >> of SLOC, whereas its functionality has stalled. > > Thanks Anselm. I think I've held on to the past for too long, an

Re: [dev] network usage graphs

2011-12-22 Thread Connor Lane Smith
Hey, On 22 December 2011 13:58, hiro <23h...@googlemail.com> wrote: > What tools do you know that are able to render such graphics and > update once per second or so? You may be interested in plotutils [1]. [1]: http://www.gnu.org/software/plotutils/ Thanks, cls

Re: [dev] network usage graphs

2011-12-22 Thread hiro
Don't know if joking or not. My client is a digital photo frame. It can only display images. I'm using awk to print the right numbers but I want the most simple tool for rendering. I'm looking into gnuplot now. On 22.12.2011, Patrick Haller <201009-suckl...@haller.ws> wrote: > On 2011-12-22 13:58,

Re: [dev] [wmii] widgets with graphics?

2011-12-22 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:44:54 -, dtk wrote: is there a way to have widgets in the status bar display images instead of utf8 symbols? s/(image|symbol)/glyph/g Modify your font. There are patches either on the website or on the Archlinux Forums that modify dwm to use more powerful font rend

Re: [dev] [wmii] widgets with graphics?

2011-12-22 Thread hiro
What are widgets?

[dev] [wmii] widgets with graphics?

2011-12-22 Thread dtk
Hey guys, is there a way to have widgets in the status bar display images instead of utf8 symbols? I know it's a question of philosophy whether you'll want that (and will therefore inevitably spawn holy flame wars ;)), but I just saw it yesterday in awesome[0] and think it was a pretty neat featu

Re: [dev] network usage graphs

2011-12-22 Thread Patrick Haller
On 2011-12-22 13:58, hiro wrote: > What tools do you know that are able to render such graphics and > update once per second or so? push the burden of making pretty crap on the client; drop the data to json and let the clients use a javascript library like highcharts.

Re: [dev] network usage graphs

2011-12-22 Thread Nick
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 01:58:45PM +0100, hiro wrote: > Now I want to display a more complicated network with multiple streams > of different services, multiple interfaces, multiple clients, multiple > uplinks. > > ... > > What tools do you know that are able to render such graphics and > update o

[dev] network usage graphs

2011-12-22 Thread hiro
Hi, On Lunix I've used wmii, dwm and stats from p9p to display information like battery, wifi, network status. Now I want to display a more complicated network with multiple streams of different services, multiple interfaces, multiple clients, multiple uplinks. Googling around searching for proper