Re: FVWM: xdg specs compliance

2005-07-20 Thread John Sullivan
Spaceborne Calin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you use man to display the manual page for your terminal you will see that > xterm has an option "-sl". This option tells xterm how many lines to save in > his buffer. Other terminal emulators have a similar option or you can use > their > menu to

Re: FVWM: xdg specs compliance

2005-07-17 Thread Dominik Vogt
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Re: FVWM: xdg specs compliance

2005-07-17 Thread Spaceborne Calin
--- seventh guardian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > On 7/15/05, Nick Fortune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I challenge you to do "ls ~ -la". I bet you would be lost. Having > a > > > program configuration dir would help to sort things out, and > would > > > benefit every one. > > > > Done th

Re: FVWM: xdg specs compliance

2005-07-17 Thread Spaceborne Calin
--- seventh guardian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : Fvwm is a window manager. It is not a desktop environement. Some people use it because they want something that just works. If fvwm doesn't fit your needs use gnome or kde. You say that fvwm should have freedesktopx and freedesktopy. I don'

Re: FVWM: xdg specs compliance

2005-07-17 Thread Spaceborne Calin
--- Nick Fortune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > I challenge you to do "ls ~ -la". I bet you would be lost. Having a > > program configuration dir would help to sort things out, and would > > benefit every one. > > Done that. Not Lost. > > What was your point? > I guess he is starting to ma

Re: FVWM: xdg specs compliance

2005-07-17 Thread Thomas Adam
--- seventh guardian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But the thing I missed most since I left kde or xfce was some of the > standardization: the xdg specifications (from freedesktop.org). The > main things I miss: Well, there already *is* standardisation amongst where fvwm places its files. It does

Re: FVWM: xdg specs compliance

2005-07-15 Thread seventh guardian
On 7/15/05, Dan Espen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > seventh guardian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On 7/15/05, Nick Fortune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I challenge you to do "ls ~ -la". I bet you would be lost. Having a > > > > program configuration dir would help to sort things out, and wo

Re: FVWM: xdg specs compliance

2005-07-15 Thread David Vilar
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 11:56:41AM +0100, seventh guardian wrote: > On 7/15/05, Nick Fortune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I challenge you to do "ls ~ -la". I bet you would be lost. Having a > > > program configuration dir would help to sort things out, and would > > > benefit every one. > > >

Re: FVWM: xdg specs compliance

2005-07-15 Thread Stephen Dennison
> My point is that there are TONS of configuration dirs in your home > dir, mixed with data/docs dirs, and unsorted files. And even though > the configs are usually hidden, they should be inside one main hidden > dir, instead of just being clogging your home dir. Why not modify fvwm so that it loo

Re: FVWM: xdg specs compliance

2005-07-15 Thread Dan Espen
seventh guardian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 7/15/05, Nick Fortune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I challenge you to do "ls ~ -la". I bet you would be lost. Having a > > > program configuration dir would help to sort things out, and would > > > benefit every one. > > Done that. Not Lost. > >

Re: FVWM: xdg specs compliance

2005-07-15 Thread seventh guardian
On 7/15/05, Nick Fortune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I challenge you to do "ls ~ -la". I bet you would be lost. Having a > > program configuration dir would help to sort things out, and would > > benefit every one. > > Done that. Not Lost. > > What was your point? > > My point is that there

Re: FVWM: xdg specs compliance

2005-07-14 Thread Nick Fortune
> I challenge you to do "ls ~ -la". I bet you would be lost. Having a > program configuration dir would help to sort things out, and would > benefit every one. Done that. Not Lost. What was your point?

Re: FVWM: xdg specs compliance

2005-07-14 Thread seventh guardian
On 7/14/05, Lukas Ruf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > seventh guardian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-14 22:59]: > > > > ** The base directory spec: move ~/.fvwm/ to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fvwm/ > > (defaults to ~/.config/fvwm/) > > > > This could easilly be implemented and would benefit everyone, by > > un

Re: FVWM: xdg specs compliance

2005-07-14 Thread Thomas A. Horsley
>But the thing I missed most since I left kde or xfce was some of the >standardization: the xdg specifications (from freedesktop.org). So many of the things in the freedesktop standard are so totally lunatic (like forbiding the use of context modifiers on key bindings in window managers), that I t

Re: FVWM: xdg specs compliance

2005-07-14 Thread Mikhael Goikhman
On 14 Jul 2005 23:15:25 +0200, Lukas Ruf wrote: > > > seventh guardian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-14 22:59]: > > > > ** The base directory spec: move ~/.fvwm/ to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fvwm/ > > (defaults to ~/.config/fvwm/) > > > > This could easilly be implemented and would benefit everyone, by > >

Re: FVWM: xdg specs compliance

2005-07-14 Thread Lukas Ruf
> seventh guardian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-14 22:59]: > > ** The base directory spec: move ~/.fvwm/ to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fvwm/ > (defaults to ~/.config/fvwm/) > > This could easilly be implemented and would benefit everyone, by > uncluttering the home dir. If the devs don't mind, it could be us

FVWM: xdg specs compliance

2005-07-14 Thread seventh guardian
Hi! First of all, I used to be a kde user since I came to linux. I recently got bored of it and tried several wm's for some time: xfce, fluxbox and now fvwm. I also used enlightenment dr17 for a day or two, but it's way to heavy for my computer to work responsively (pentium 2.6, 512mb ram). I kind