Re: [dev] [wmii] Flash in fullscreen regularly freezes screen

2011-08-04 Thread Nathan Neff
> % uname -a > Linux ratham 2.6.39-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jul 9 14:57:41 CEST 2011 > x86_64 Genuine Intel(R) CPU U7300 @ 1.30GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux Are you running Arch Linux again? It's so tempting!

Re: [dev] Why dwm or wmii over xmonad, etc., or not?

2011-05-09 Thread Nathan Neff
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 2:57 AM, Aurélien Aptel wrote: > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 3:18 AM, Nathan Neff wrote: >> 2.5) Easy / sensible defaults.  Sorry but Emacs-style "shortcut keys" >> are an oxymoron.  Any window manager >> that uses Emacs "Key Chords" is

Re: [dev] Why dwm or wmii over xmonad, etc., or not?

2011-05-05 Thread Nathan Neff
Wmii is the best choice, hands down. The other WMs assume way too much. I like dwm second best. Here's the plusses: 1) Wmii does tagging /right/. Want to have your editor, browser and terminal in a "dev" tag? Done. Want to have your editor in your "debug" tag as well? No problem. You decide

Re: [dev] Re: [ANN] ruby wmiirc - improved status bar applets

2011-03-31 Thread Nathan Neff
Suraj, Let me see if I understand this: You have an arrangement like so: 1 2 3 When you start a new firefox client, let's say in the right column, the arrangement would then be 1 2 3 4 If I would "persist" the first arrangement, then the arrangement would /remain/ as 1 2 3 But

[dev] Suckless.org down?

2010-07-08 Thread Nathan Neff
Is anyone else having trouble connecting to suckless.org? Thanks, --Nate

[dev] [wmii] Anyone use regex tags for clients?

2010-05-21 Thread Nathan Neff
I just started reading the wmii pdf (http://wmii.googlecode.com/hg/doc/wmii.pdf), and found the feature where you can tag a client with /foo/, and the client will then show up on any tag with "foo" in it. Sounds interesting -- I'd like to hear from anyone who uses this feature. Thanks, --Nate

[dev] Non-tiling WM that can do tags?

2010-01-31 Thread Nathan Neff
Does anyone know of a non-tiling window manager that allows you to tag windows like wmii does? Perhaps a plugin for Openbox where I can do wmii-like tag switching, and tag a client with multiple tags so that's it's visible on multiple desktops/tags? Thanks, --Nate

Re: [dev] [dmenu] xft patch

2010-01-27 Thread Nathan Neff
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Thayer Williams > wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Nathan Neff > wrote: > >> I had to find a way to burn my other planned 50 minutes, so I wrote this > >> e-mail. > > > > Hehe now if only antialiased fonts didn't look so bad =) > > > > > >

[dev] [dmenu] xft patch

2010-01-27 Thread Nathan Neff
Thanks to Kyle Murphy and dmenu authors for dmenu and the xft patch for dmenu. http://lists.suckless.org/dev/0911/2320.html I'm so proud of myself that I was able to 1) download dmenu from http://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/ 2) apply the patch using: patch -p1 < dmenu-4.0-xft2.diff and 3) instal

[dev] Alex Payne @ Strange Loop

2009-11-17 Thread Nathan Neff
Just thought I'd mention that I was at the Strange Loop conference in Saint Louis a few weeks ago, and I cheered when Alex Payne mentioned suckless.org in his keynote speech. http://www.slideshare.net/al3x/strange-loop-2009-keynote-minimalism-in-computing Check out slide 29 -- has a quote (perhap

[dev] [OT] Java Hate

2009-11-17 Thread Nathan Neff
Can anyone here at suckless summarize their dislike of Java? I dislike Java too, but wanted to hear other people's points. My dislike of Java is probably due to the over-complication of most Java code that I've seen -- mostly not due to the language itself. Any specific points about Java, and wh

[dev] [wmii] Curves on top of window borders

2009-10-16 Thread Nathan Neff
Is there a way to turn off the small 3 pixel curves on the top left and top right of the topmost windows on each column? I'm using wmii 3.9 Thanks, -Nate

[dev] [wmii] rumai - "previous" tag

2009-10-13 Thread Nathan Neff
Hello, I'm using the Rumai config with wmii -- one of the latest versions (Oct 6) Is there a property that refers to the tag that was previously viewed? For example, if I'm on Tag 1, and jump to Tag 4, is there some way to access Tag 1? I'd like to create an Alt-Tab shortcut that jumps back to

Re: [dev] [dwm] [wmii] Prompt for client to add to current view

2009-10-06 Thread Nathan Neff
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Suraj Kurapati wrote: > On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Nathan Neff wrote: > > I'd like to have a menu that shows all the currently running clients, > > and when I select a client, the current tag is applied to that client. > > You can

Re: [dev] [wmii] rumai qwerty keys overlap

2009-10-05 Thread Nathan Neff
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Suraj Kurapati wrote: > On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Suraj Kurapati wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Nathan Neff > wrote: > >> {mod}-t is bound to focus previous client > >> {mod}-{up} is bound to "focus view chose

[dev] [dwm] [wmii] Prompt for client to add to current view

2009-10-05 Thread Nathan Neff
I'd like to have a menu that shows all the currently running clients, and when I select a client, the current tag is applied to that client. This would allow me to quickly view another client without having to switch to the tag where the client is running. For example, I'm in tag 1, and would lik

[dev] [wmii] rumai qwerty keys overlap

2009-10-05 Thread Nathan Neff
Hello, I'm trying out the qwerty branch of http://github.com/sunaku/wmiirc I think that the {mod}-t and {mod}-{up} keys overlap {mod}-t is bound to focus previous client {mod}-{up} is bound to "focus view chosen from a menu" Therefore, when I try to focus on the client above by pressing {mod}-t

Re: [dev] [dwm] - Focus Master Patch Request

2009-09-03 Thread Nathan Neff
>> I haven't dug into the code too much, but I found the "focusstack" >> method, and perhaps >> it could be modified to take a "0" (zero) as an argument which would >> put the focus on the master client. > > no, that would focus the previous client > you want something like > > void > focusmaster(c

[dev] [dwm] - Focus Master Patch Request

2009-09-02 Thread Nathan Neff
I'd like a function to switch the focus to the Master client -- kinda like Mod1-j and Mod1-k, except that the focus goes to the master. As a kludge, I can press Mod1+Enter twice to focus the master, but I'd like a single keypress to focus the master. I haven't dug into the code too much, but I fo

Re: [dev] dwm - filter dmenu input

2009-08-31 Thread Nathan Neff
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Anders Andersson wrote: > Hi! This sounds like a great place to put it. You could also put it in > dmenu_path, in the done | sort | uniq path, but why bother really. > > // pipe Thanks. That's where I put my filter, and it's working great. I have this in my /usr

[dev] dwm - filter dmenu input

2009-08-31 Thread Nathan Neff
Hello, I'd like to exclude certain things from dmenu. I'm running dwm 5.6.1 I noticed that the output of "/usr/bin/dmenu_path" is piped into dmenu. Is this the best place to filter out things that I don't want to see in dmenu? For example, at the end of /usr/bin/dmenu_path, I could put cat "$C

Re: [dev] wmii - clock issues

2009-08-27 Thread Nathan Neff
>>> THE PROBLEM: >>> for some reason, wmII's clock isn't being updated. >>> load average monitor seems fine, it changes.. but the clock just sits >>> there and shows the time from when I launched wmii. I think it's a problem with having two defmonitor stanzas, or else it's a problem with the implem

[dev] Reload wmiirc.py on the fly?

2009-08-16 Thread Nathan Neff
Hello, I'm using the python script found in alternative_wmiircs that comes with version 2009-07-03 I'd like to know if there's a way to reload the configuration script without restarting wmii? I've tried Mod-A, then selecting wmiirc, but no changes are seen until I quit wmii then re-login. I've

Re: [dev] wmii - clock issues

2009-08-16 Thread Nathan Neff
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Kris Maglione wrote: > On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:18:41PM -0500, Nathan Neff wrote: >> >> On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Val Polyakov wrote: >>> >>> THE INFO: >>> >>> v...@hades:~$ ls incoming/wmi* >>> i

Re: [dev] wmii - clock issues

2009-08-15 Thread Nathan Neff
I'm also having the same problem. I'm using the 20090703 script that's in the alternative_wmiircs file. Any ideas? I'm not fluent in python. Thanks, --Nate On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Val Polyakov wrote: > THE INFO: > > v...@hades:~$ ls incoming/wmi* > incoming/wmii+ixp-snap20090803.tgz >