Re: [dev] [dwm] 6.1 release

2015-12-08 Thread Jakub Lach
Dnia 8 grudnia 2015 5:23 Eric Pruitt napisał(a): > On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 03:25:05PM +0100, Jakub Lach wrote: > > It has xft that I don't want, my terminus font doesn't work (or I haven't > > figured the syntax), had to rewrite config.h > > Your terminus font settings might not work out-of-the-

Re: [dev] [dwm] 6.1 release

2015-12-08 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 7 December 2015 at 16:51, Jakub Lach wrote: > What I'm trying to say, is that 6.1 is a little more > POLA violating, than dwm releases used to be. I understand your concerns and have a similar feeling that Xft brought in some tumors into our software. However the idea behind libdrw is to also

Re: [dev] [dwm] 6.1 release

2015-12-08 Thread Staven
On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 10:51:25AM -0500, Matthew of Boswell wrote: > There is no end-user support here. Most of us don't want to spend our > free time on it, and we don't want "help vampires" to feel welcome. "help vampires" nice

Re: [dev] [dwm] 6.1 release

2015-12-07 Thread Eric Pruitt
On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 03:25:05PM +0100, Jakub Lach wrote: > It has xft that I don't want, my terminus font doesn't work (or I haven't > figured the syntax), had to rewrite config.h Your terminus font settings might not work out-of-the-box, but now everyone that wants to use dwm with languages th

Re: [dev] [dwm] 6.1 release

2015-12-07 Thread Jakub Lach
Dnia 7 grudnia 2015 17:15 Matthew of Boswell napisał(a): > On Mon, 07 Dec 2015 16:51:55 +0100 > Jakub Lach wrote: > > [...]than dwm releases used to be. > > I'm curious now... how long have you been using dwm? The last release > before this was in 2011. About 2008 I think.

Re: [dev] [dwm] 6.1 release

2015-12-07 Thread Matthew of Boswell
On Mon, 07 Dec 2015 16:51:55 +0100 Jakub Lach wrote: > [...]than dwm releases used to be. I'm curious now... how long have you been using dwm? The last release before this was in 2011. -- Matt Boswell

Re: [dev] [dwm] 6.1 release

2015-12-07 Thread Teodoro Santoni
Hey there, 2015-12-07 16:51 GMT+01:00, Matthew of Boswell : > Huh? What OS/distro are you guys using that you don't already have > libxft? I have so many packages that rely on it. Mainstream Linux distros fought with all their might against gcc to fit their OS into the CD-ROM boundaries. The funn

Re: [dev] [dwm] 6.1 release

2015-12-07 Thread Connor Lane Smith
On 7 December 2015 at 15:51, Jakub Lach wrote: > What I'm trying to say, is that 6.1 is a little more > POLA violating, than dwm releases used to be. I do think it a little unfortunate that dwm release numbering means essentially nothing. The jump from 6.0 to 6.1 was far greater than 5.9 to 6.0 w

Re: [dev] [dwm] 6.1 release

2015-12-07 Thread Jakub Lach
Dnia 7 grudnia 2015 16:16 FRIGN napisał(a): > ... Yeah, thanks. I'm aware of differences, I've rewrote config.h, I've anticipated such response and I'm (partially) okay with it. I've reverted to 6.0 too. What I'm trying to say, is that 6.1 is a little more POLA violating, than dwm releases us

Re: [dev] [dwm] 6.1 release

2015-12-07 Thread Matthew of Boswell
On Mon, 7 Dec 2015 16:14:10 +0100 "G.H." wrote: > I also have problems with 6.1; it won't compile because of a lack of xft > fonts on my machine, or, I think that's my problem. Huh? What OS/distro are you guys using that you don't already have libxft? I have so many packages that rely on it.

Re: [dev] [dwm] 6.1 release

2015-12-07 Thread Carlos Torres
Hello, For xft Terminus, I simply use "Terminus:bold:size=9", that seems to work best, you should check "fc-list | grep Terminus" to see if Terminus is in fontconfig fontpath (or whatever its called) or else add it, like so "xset +fp ~/.fonts/terminus" or where ever you have yours, with .xinitrc

Re: [dev] [dwm] 6.1 release

2015-12-07 Thread FRIGN
On Mon, 07 Dec 2015 15:25:05 +0100 Jakub Lach wrote: Hey Jakub, > I'm grateful for maintaining this software, however my upgrade from 6.0->1 > brought me nothing but grumpiness unfortunately. > It has xft that I don't want, my terminus font doesn't work (or I haven't > figured the syntax), ha

Re: [dev] [dwm] 6.1 release

2015-12-07 Thread G.H.
I also have problems with 6.1; it won't compile because of a lack of xft fonts on my machine, or, I think that's my problem. I appreciate that DWM is a developer's tool and, in using it I should have sufficient knowledge to address this issue, but.. I do like DWM and I'd would like to continu

Re: [dev] [dwm] 6.1 release

2015-12-07 Thread Jakub Lach
Dnia 9 listopada 2015 0:45 Hiltjo Posthuma napisał(a): > After a long time (dwm 6.0 was released on 2011-12-19) it is time for a new > dwm release. I'm grateful for maintaining this software, however my upgrade from 6.0->1 brought me nothing but grumpiness unfortunately. It has xft that I don

Re: [dev] [dwm] 6.1 release

2015-11-09 Thread Hiltjo Posthuma
On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 2:43 AM, Brendan Desmond wrote: > On 2015-11-09, Hiltjo Posthuma wrote: > > Hi Hiltjo, I noticed that in the latest release tarball from the Suckless > web > site, the line referring to $FREETYPEINC for OpenBSD in config.mk is > uncommented, like so: > > # freetype > FREETYP

Re: [dev] [dwm] 6.1 release

2015-11-08 Thread Brendan Desmond
On 2015-11-09, Hiltjo Posthuma wrote: Build improvements: - config.mk: add $FREETYPELIBS and $FREETYPEINC, simpler to override (ports and *BSDs). Hi Hiltjo, I noticed that in the latest release tarball from the Suckless web site, the line referring to $FREETYPEINC for OpenBSD in config.mk is

[dev] [dwm] 6.1 release

2015-11-08 Thread Hiltjo Posthuma
Hi suckless developers!, After a long time (dwm 6.0 was released on 2011-12-19) it is time for a new dwm release. Thanks goes out to all the people involved at making the software better in various ways! Alot of things have changed, make sure to update your config.h and rebase the wiki patches yo