[dev] mcabber (IM) and dwm?

2009-07-18 Thread Preben Randhol
Hi I'm using mcabber (http://mcabber.com/) as an IM client. I'm trying to get it to set it upso that on new messages the tag should be highlighted. I have noticed some other apps does this. But I'm a bit lost as to how to get this working. Anybody have a link to some general info on how to get pro

Re: [dev] mcabber (IM) and dwm?

2009-07-18 Thread Christoph Schied
Hi! On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 09:59:20AM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: > I'm using mcabber (http://mcabber.com/) as an IM client. I'm trying to > get it to set it upso that on new messages the tag should be > highlighted. You will need to use a terminal which can set the X11 urgency hint when a bel

Re: [dev] mcabber (IM) and dwm?

2009-07-18 Thread Tadzik Sośnierz
Dnia 2009-07-18, o godz. 09:59:20 Preben Randhol napisał(a): > Hi > > I'm using mcabber (http://mcabber.com/) as an IM client. I'm trying to > get it to set it upso that on new messages the tag should be > highlighted. I have noticed some other apps does this. But I'm a bit > lost as to how to g

Re: [dev] OT - suckless or not ? :)

2009-07-18 Thread hiro
> Not to mention the duplicty: > - something is suckless (completely void of suck) > - something does suck less (still some suck in it) > > These things are very different, and I think it's very, very hard to reach > the first meaning > I think option 2 is the commonly accepted one here, but meani

Re: OT: Re: [dev] mention suckless favorably in today's blog article A Quantum of Computing

2009-07-18 Thread hiro
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Szabolcs Nagy wrote: > On 7/14/09, Preben Randhol wrote: >> I guess one says nano-technology was an absurdity if you go some >> decades back... CS is still a banal science compared to >> chemistry/physics/mathematics etc... > > absurdity stems from the unintuitive

Re: OT: Re: [dev] mention suckless favorably in today's blog article A Quantum of Computing

2009-07-18 Thread Szabolcs Nagy
On 7/18/09, hiro <23h...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Our laws of quantum mechanics are not more or less absurd than any > other natural law. > sure they are most laws of nature are intuitive: they fit into the experiences one encounters because.. well we live in this world however quantum mechanics

Re: [dev] mcabber (IM) and dwm?

2009-07-18 Thread Preben Randhol
On Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:17:58 +0200 Christoph Schied wrote: > You will need to use a terminal which can set the X11 urgency hint > when a bell occurs in the terminal. > Using urxvt, you put the following in .Xdefaults: > URxvt*urgentOnBell: true > > Now you have to set mcabber to bell when a mes

Re: OT: Re: [dev] mention suckless favorably in today's blog article A Quantum of Computing

2009-07-18 Thread Jack Woehr
Szabolcs Nagy wrote: "I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics." Feynman Certainly not I. But it hasn't stopped me from blogging about QM! Here's another entry, a nice conversation with an astrophysicist about building a quantum computer. http://dobbscodetalk.com/in

Re: [dev] mention suckless favorably in today's blog article A Quantum of Computing

2009-07-18 Thread Jack Woehr
Uriel wrote: I guess you know and have read Rob Pike's 'Systems Software Research is Irrelevant': http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utah2000/ It seemed true when he wrote it and seems true now. -- Jack J. Woehr# I run for public office from time to time. It's like http://www.well.c

Re: [dev] mcabber (IM) and dwm?

2009-07-18 Thread Samuel Baldwin
2009/7/18 Tadzik Sośnierz : > I'd also like the answer to your question, though I semi-solved this > thing by scripting mcabber to set the scroll lock keyboard led if there > are unread messages. Anyway, I'd be glad if You found any solution. How'd you do that? -- Samuel 'Shardz' Baldwin - stati

Re: [dev] mcabber (IM) and dwm?

2009-07-18 Thread Tadzik Sośnierz
Dnia 2009-07-18, o godz. 12:42:47 Samuel Baldwin napisał(a): > 2009/7/18 Tadzik Sośnierz : > > I'd also like the answer to your question, though I semi-solved this > > thing by scripting mcabber to set the scroll lock keyboard led if > > there are unread messages. Anyway, I'd be glad if You found