Re: [dev] Surf hacking. Search Engine and Homepage

2014-04-08 Thread Bigby James
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 02:18:32PM -0300, Henrique Lengler wrote: > I downloaded and i installed the patch how is described on the website! > > I received this message: > > # patch -p1 < /home/henrique/surf-0.6-searchengines.diff > patching file config.def.h > Hunk #1 FAILED at 101. > 1 out of 1

Re: [dev] Surf hacking. Search Engine and Homepage

2014-04-09 Thread Bigby James
On 04/09, hiro wrote: > > You can use a search engine to look for key phrases > in error messages that will lead to hints on how to resolve issues. > > That's pretty awful advice if he doesn't know any C. stackoverflow and > ubuntu-forums are not the place to learn programming. You don't necessa

Re: [dev] [dwm] trayless workflow

2014-04-28 Thread Bigby James
On 04/26, Yuri Karaban wrote: > Hello, > > I browsed suckless mailing lists and I found that system tray is > discouraged in dwm and it's suggested to use tags instead. > > I was always using workspace separation (with other window manager) and > I have instant messengers on dedicated workspace.

Re: [dev] [GENERAL] License manifest

2014-05-20 Thread Bigby James
On 05/12, Amadeus Folego wrote: > Hi there, > > So, given this context, is there any manifesto about this particular License > choice? E.G is there a reason to avoid GPL? > Most of the ideas have already been touched on here, but if you want to get a general idea of why some people might reject

Re: [dev] Anyone interested in C "blogging platform"?

2014-05-23 Thread Bigby James
> On 05/23, Dimitris Zervas wrote: > > 1: I use git (for versioning and easy management). The posts are written in > markup. Once you make a new commit, a program (or a script?) is triggered and > scans the commit, finds the files altered and either interprets the markup > files (smu [1] is used)

Re: [dev] suckless distro

2014-06-14 Thread Bigby James
On 06/14, Thuban wrote: > Hi, > I'm looking for a suckless distro. I really like crux [1], and I would > like to know what are you using? > > Do you know any BSD equivalent? > CRUX would get my vote too, largely because it's the most BSD-like mature Linux distro I've found. Very similar to Arch b

Re: [dev] Why do you use tmux/screen?

2014-06-30 Thread Bigby James
On 07/01, Dimitris Zervas wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > Hello, > > After a year or so in the list, I think each and every one is using tmux or > screen (I think more tmux, but do not start a war please, that's not the > subject). > Why is that? For the tabs? > W

Re: [dev] Why do you use tmux/screen?

2014-07-01 Thread Bigby James
On 06/30, Charlie Kester wrote: > On Mon 30 Jun 2014 at 17:48:48 PDT Dimitris Zervas wrote: > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >Hash: SHA512 > > > >Hello, > > > >After a year or so in the list, I think each and every one is using tmux or > >screen (I think more tmux, but do not start a war ple

Re: [dev] [scron] simple cron daemon

2014-07-06 Thread Bigby James
On 07/06, Dimitris Papastamos wrote: > On Sat, Jul 05, 2014 at 09:30:25PM +0200, Džen wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Dimitris Papastamos wrote: > > > I've forked scron[0] [...] > > > > Why fork scron if you could just provide useful patches to the original > > author? > > Why do yo

Re: [dev] [scron] simple cron daemon

2014-07-06 Thread Bigby James
> I don't see Ari whining over this, so why would you care? If you care about > the project and the direction it is taking, then start a technical discussion > or > even better demonstrate your ideas with patches! > > I am not here to satisfy all your needs or even provide context that I deem >

Re: [dev] sufr + tabbed

2014-07-23 Thread Bigby James
On 07/23, Adam Pribyl wrote: > Now the only thing I miss using surf is any kind of login/password manager. > Is there something? I thought http://suckless.org/other_projects passman > project maybe, but link is 404... > Check out pass.[1] [1]: http://www.passwordstore.org/ -- "A common mistake

Re: [dev] sic or ii, whats the main differences?

2014-08-19 Thread Bigby James
On 08/19, Henrique Lengler wrote: > sic or ii as IRC client? whats the purpouse of each one? > sic works out of the box, but isn't extensible and doesn't have anything fancy features like colored output. ii requires more time and effort to set up, but is more flexible. You can use 'tail -f', an o

Re: [dev] sic or ii, whats the main differences?

2014-08-20 Thread Bigby James
On 08/20, FRIGN wrote: > On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 19:38:04 -0500 > Bigby James wrote: > > > I've been interested in getting ii up and running myself for a couple weeks, > > though I haven't done much beyond play with it for a minute.I've been using > > we

Re: [dev] [dwm] Starting new windows in the CWD of the selected window

2014-10-07 Thread Bigby James
On 10/07, Stephen Paul Weber wrote: > I realise this might not be possible in general. Really I'm mostly > interested in starting new st processes in the CWD of a currently-selected > st. See the spawn_cwd patch on the wiki.[1] Haven't tried it myself---it's a bit old--- but it does what you're l

Re: [dev] SGI Irix look (4Dwm)

2014-10-22 Thread Bigby James
On 10/22, Andrew Gwozdziewycz wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 8:42 PM, wrote: > >> Why not patch dwm to draw the appropriate decorations around windows? > >> It can't be that difficult to do, and the code base is easy enough to > >> navigate... > > > > Hi, > > > > By patching do you mean confi

Re: [dev] Operating system choice

2014-11-19 Thread Bigby James
I've been a happy Arch user for 4 years, but I've been seriously considering moving to FreeBSD. Lots of similarities between the two, and FreeBSD has all the software I use in its ports tree. It seems to have the right balance of simplicity and customizability, and the -STABLE branch gets regular u

Re: [dev] Does suckless need a separate list for general discussion?

2014-11-25 Thread Bigby James
On 11/24, Nick wrote: > Quoth Charlie Kester: > > If there are enough people who want to keep this dev list restricted to > > discussion of proposed patches or other concrete work on suckless > > projects, perhaps there should be a separate list for more general > > discussion? > > No, I think m