Re: [dev] [dwm] about _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW support

2012-01-07 Thread Andreas Amann
On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 10:20:27PM +0200, Ivan Kanakarakis wrote: > dwm, when it receives a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message, it transfers focus to > the client that asked for it, but never sets the root window id to that > window's id. That is ofcourse a choice - the standard doesn't force one to > do t

[dev] [dwm] about _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW support

2012-01-07 Thread Ivan Kanakarakis
Hi all, I was going looking through dwm's code cause I've been having problems with my own implementation of _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW support for mosnterwm, and noticed some things. 1) The ewmh standard on _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW [0] says that: > [...] This is a read-only property set by the Window Manager

Re: [dev] wmii falling out of favor

2012-01-07 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 7 January 2012 20:21, wrote: > But for me, wmii's window managing is far better than dwm's one. I tried > dwm for eight weeks. Now back to wmii. I like the stagged mode at most. > I like window titles. I like columns. Someone could implement a stacked mode patch for dwm based on two extra win

Re: [dev] wmii falling out of favor

2012-01-07 Thread deb97
Am 22.12.2011 schrieb "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,

Re: [dev] wmii falling out of favor

2012-01-07 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 05:50:06PM +, Connor Lane Smith wrote: > So long as you have the input state for those commands -- the files > themselves -- why must we log the output for each and every command? Error correction. > If we know the state of the directory, why log invocations of `ls`?

Re: [dev] wmii falling out of favor

2012-01-07 Thread Connor Lane Smith
On 7 January 2012 17:26, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > That's not enough. I want the output of all commands (messages, documents, > calculations, notes and error reports) to be stored on increasingly > mainstream terabyte disks along with enough metadata to uniquely identify > it. "Modification" is

Re: [dev] wmii falling out of favor

2012-01-07 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
Þann fim 5.jan 2012 23:12, skrifaði Connor Lane Smith: That's not inherent to GUIs, it just so happens that existing GUIs are extremely poorly made. It's not interaction which needs to be logged so much as the modification of persistent data -- files and such -- which could easily be logged by