Re: [dev] Re: How do you cope with OSX? (if at all)

2011-03-21 Thread stanio
* Benjamin R. Haskell [2011-03-19 15:56]: > I don't think I've ever met a ThinkPad owner who didn't prefer the > nipple over a touchpad once they were used to it. Now you know one. When I need a pointing device, I would anytime prefer touchpad with decent configuration, mainly (1) two finger scr

Re: [dev] fast-booting to text editor

2011-03-21 Thread Daniel Bainton
On 21 March 2011 01:20, Peter John Hartman wrote: > On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 07:18:12PM +, David Tweed wrote: >> using dwm as wm took 50s. Without starting any other programs and >> immediately hibernating, a restart from hibernate image takes 37s to >> get to the password unlock screen.(I can

Re: [dev] fast-booting to text editor

2011-03-21 Thread stanio
* Daniel Bainton [2011-03-21 13:38]: > On 21 March 2011 01:20, Peter John Hartman wrote: > > 37s is ridiculous.  i'm on an eee pc with crap-for-all everything, and it > > takes < 5s.  presumably, it's ubuntu as the slow-poke.  here's my hib.sh > > script, mmv: > > > > You're also ridiculous, bec

Re: [dev] Re: How do you cope with OSX? (if at all)

2011-03-21 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 5:37 AM, wrote: > When I need a pointing device, I would anytime prefer touchpad with > decent configuration, mainly (1) two finger scroll (or emulation of > 2finger), (2) click by tap and double-click by 2-finger-tap (i don't > know what's the correct name), which in addi

Re: [dev] fast-booting to text editor

2011-03-21 Thread Gregor Best
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 01:08:44AM +0100, c...@wzff.de wrote: > Please don't use [ $USER = root ]. This is very unclean because the UID-0 user > isn't always called root. Use id -u instead and spread the word. I hate it > when > things break because of this. > Seeing that the rest of the script

Re: [dev] fast-booting to text editor

2011-03-21 Thread Peter John Hartman
> You're also ridiculous, because you're not hibernating, you're > suspending. Of course suspending to memory will take way less time > than hibernating to disk. fair enough; i've never had a need to suspend to disk rather than ram (nor the capacity, frankly), regardless of what we are calling the

Re: [dev] fast-booting to text editor

2011-03-21 Thread Thomas Spurden
On 20/03/11 18:21, David Tweed wrote: > Hi, one of those general suckless software questions: > > I'm in a position where I'll be both commuting a lot and needing to > write a lot of text (review coments) over the coming months. I've got > a "spare" old but very small, low weight notebook PC I pla

[dev] wmii hardware keyboard shortcut layout at boot problem

2011-03-21 Thread Eitan Goldshtrom
I set the keyboard layout to Dvorak with the KEYBOARD variable in rc.conf. When I start wmii though all my keyboard shortcuts are set to the hardware keys, which are QWERTY. I'm using Arch Linux and I installed xbindkeys, or at least some X package, to get the shortcuts to bind to the software

Re: [dev] wmii hardware keyboard shortcut layout at boot problem

2011-03-21 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011, Eitan Goldshtrom wrote: I set the keyboard layout to Dvorak with the KEYBOARD variable in rc.conf. When I start wmii though all my keyboard shortcuts are set to the hardware keys, which are QWERTY. I'm using Arch Linux and I installed xbindkeys, or at least some X packag