http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.wmii hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.wmii/3082 All; I am a newbie to wmii; somehow an avid shell scripter and totally enjoy every bit of wmii On my workstation I have dual 21" monitors next to each other and when I log in I painstakingly fire up 20 xterms; Lay them out: (window #1) right monitor: total columns = 4 column 1 holds 2 xterm windows (scratch pads) [ work area ] column 1 holds 3 xterm windows (various top/while loops to core servers and routers) [ monitoring ] column 1 holds 5 xterm windows (constant mtr sessions to varios locations throughout our environment) [ monitoring ] column 1 holds 5 xterm windows ( constant mtr sessions to varios locations throughout our environment) [ monitoring ] left monitor: total columns = 2 column 1 holds ~8 xterm windows (stacked) [ work area - where I do my day to day stuff(don't ask) ] column 1 holds ~4 xterm windows (stacked) [ holds eclipse, firefox; and oth Donny Jekels 2008-11-13T18:04:05 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.wmii/3078 Hello, Very limited width of status bar is kind of issue for me so I want to strip default date output by removing "GMT 2008". I would rather modify date utility parameters than use sed. It can be easly done (I hope so) by invoking `date "+%a %b %d %H:%M:%S"` in Status Bar Info section of rc.wmii And here is the problem, no matter what I try I just can't make it works, date is not displayed at all or has some dodgy value. I belive that it has nothing to do with wmii itself and it's just a matter of setting correct escape characters. Can anybody help me with this configuration, please? All my experiments failed. I'm using wmii-3.6 on FreeBSD with tcsh shell. Michal michupitka 2008-11-11T23:44:48 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.wmii/3052 Hi, In response to the last thread, and as a general announcement, here's what's going on with the latest changes to the tree. First of all, please report any bugs you find to the Google issue tracker. I'm least likely to lose track of them that way. To start with, I've replaced dmenu with ‘wimenu’. It's very similar in appearance and behavior, but has a few significant enhancements. The biggest user-noticable change is the addition of an input caret. Now, you can type entire command lines without fear of having to start from scratch when you spot a typo. Second, it not supports command history. The -h flag specifies a history file to load, and the -n flag, when present, causes the menu to write back at most n history items to the history file. Third, you no longer need (or even can) specify colors, fonts, or positioning on the commandline. All such settings are read directly from wmii's /ctl. The same now goes for wmii9menu, which has also had its flags reduced to single letters. I hope Kris Maglione 2008-10-18T13:44:11 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.wmii/3044 Kris has done quite some changes;) I'm testing now, I guess you'll have to apply this diff for making it work. diff -r 361ab709dd0e cmd/menu/menu.c --- a/cmd/menu/menu.c Wed Oct 15 16:08:56 2008 -0400 +++ b/cmd/menu/menu.c Wed Oct 15 23:08:53 2008 +0200 < at >< at > -246,8 +246,8 < at >< at > if(IsFunctionKey(ksym) || IsMiscFunctionKey(ksym) || IsKeypadKey(ksym) - || IsPrivateKeypadKey(ksym)) - || IsPFKey(ksym) + || IsPrivateKeypadKey(ksym) + || IsPFKey(ksym)) return; if(e->state & ControlMask) { hiro 2008-10-15T21:14:43 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.wmii/3043 Hello, I have been using the latest tip with a lot of success lately, but I have one problem that is very very difficult to reproduce, every once in awhile, wmiir segfaults, which, I think causes the statusbar to stop refreshing, dmesg shows me [12286.253414] wmiir[13479]: segfault at 0 ip 08074fa2 sp bfed07a0 error 4 in wmiir[8048000+92000] [12289.215394] wmiir[13486]: segfault at 0 ip 08074fa2 sp bf8f41d0 error 4 in wmiir[8048000+92000] [12292.378301] wmiir[13493]: segfault at 0 ip 08074fa2 sp bfc84560 error 4 in wmiir[8048000+92000] where should I go to troubleshoot this further or to isolate the problem a bit better? Thanks Alex Alex Kilgore 2008-10-14T03:04:03 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.wmii/3040 Hi list, I've noticed that almost all ncurses or s-lang based applications apparently aren't notified when their window's size changes because another window is opened. The result is that they either don't use the full terminal size anymore or, much worse, not the whole app is displayed anymore. The only working program I've encountered is the moc music player. There aren't any problems if I resize the window directly. I've tested xterm and urxvt. Any help on this issue is appreciated. -Erik Erik Hahn 2008-10-08T17:21:07 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.wmii/3031 Dear all, I compiled and installed wmii (snapshot: wmii+ixp-20080520) on a new machine, and I cannot run any program using M+p. Typing the name of an application it gets displayed in the bar, but after pressing enter the program does not start. M+a and M+enter are working properly. I'm using: dmenu-3.9 plan9port-20080909 libixp (it should be 0.5, I got it via hg clone http://code.suckless.org/hg/libixp, 2 days ago) GNU/Linux Ubuntu 8.04 Thanks for any help, Davide Davide Anchisi 2008-09-23T09:25:12 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.wmii/3026 Hi everybody! so recently (after having upgraded to the mercurial releases from the snaps) I have been able to get a working configuration every time but with some tweaking, and I have a feeling im not doing it all the way that was intended. The way I have it set up, after browsing some of the various scripts, I noticed the config directory is ~/.wmii-hg/ now instead of .wmii-3.5? I have moved everything there, but for some reason, I needed to do like...wmii -r ~/.wmii-hg/wmiirc to make it work right Is there something I am missing here about how this is to be set up? or is this how you are supposed to choose between wmiirc and rc.wmii Another thing is, with this setup mod+a isnt doing what its supposed to either, it lists everything in ~/ for whatever reason, could someone point me in the right direction as to how this is supposed to be set up? By the way, I love the recent changes that were merged! =) Thanks, Alex Alex Kilgore 2008-09-12T01:09:18 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.wmii/3024 I reported this issue on the tracker, thought I should send a notification in case it didnt get sent by google code What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. open two xterms 2. move both xterms to the floating layer 3. re-tag one of them with '2' What is the expected output? What do you see instead? expected: xterm gets re-tagged actual: wmii stops with cannot read /client/sel/tags unexpected eof What version of the product are you using (wmii -v)? On what operating system? wmii-hg2345 Debian/GNU Linux Lenny Alex Kilgore 2008-09-08T03:05:17 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.wmii/3020 With the latest tip I've noticed mouseover focus behavior has changed a bit. When moving the mouse over another window (either in the same column or to another column) the focus may not follow if you move the mouse too quickly. Unfortunately "too quickly" isn't exactly a blinding speed either. I'm also guessing it's not an anti-"oops moved the mouse too far" either because leaving the mouse over the unfocused window doesn't raise it after any amount of time. Anyone else noticing this? I'm using version hg2345. Thomas Thomas Gallen 2008-09-07T23:09:51 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.wmii/3014 Hi, I wonder whether I can register a 'callback' function at some point, like after a new application window created. What I want to do is auto resizing the new created window to a suitable width(like 75% of screen width) and move current focused window to right column after it created. Or is there another way to achieve this? Thanks, Jan Jan 2008-08-30T05:04:16 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.wmii/3011 i've had the dual-display config working very well for a good while now and love it. yesterday i blew away my machine and started from scratch, complete with latest hg clone of wmii. i had to rewrite some of my rc.wmii configuration, but i think i have everything working as it was before with one exception: currently, focus follows the mouse when moving from display to display, as long as the mouse finds a terminal window in the destination display. otherwise the focus stays on the original display. for example, moving to a new display showing firefox, and even after clicking around in the firefox window, all keyboard input shows up on the original display in the original terminal. mouse input works in the firefox window, but keyboard input does not. keyboard input is never reassigned until i click the tag (bottom left) or the rightbar (which executes the swarp utility). is this a problem with my config, or something in wmii that needs a work-around? thanks! Dewey Hylton 2008-08-28T18:09:02 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.wmii/3007 I have a 84 Key Keyboard wit us Layout. This is my ~/.Xmodmap: remove Lock = Caps_Lock add mod4 = Caps_Lock keycode 113 = Mode_switch Multi_key keycode 39 = s S ssharp keycode 38 = a A adiaeresis Adiaeresis keycode 30 = u U udiaeresis Udiaeresis keycode 32 = o O odiaeresis Odiaeresis keycode 14 = 5 percent ssharp degree keycode 24 = q Q at keycode 26 = e E egrave Egrave keycode 28 = t T EuroSign EuroSign keycode 27 = r R ecircumflex Ecircumflex keycode 25 = w W eacute Eacute keycode 31 = i I idiaeresis Idiaeresis keycode 57 = n N ntilde Ntilde keycode 58 = m M Multi_key keycode 10 = 1 exclam exclamdown onehalf keycode 54 = c C ccedilla Ccedilla This way My Caps Lock Key becomes Mod4. n my ~/.wmii-3.5/wmiirc I have: MODKEY=Mod4 Fine so far, the Caps Lock really actually _is_ my Mod4 and works. Anything else is on default (except the colors) especially Key $MODKEY-Shift-$i wmiir xwrite /client/sel/tags "$i" does, that Mod4+Shift+n sends the selected client to the n'th workspa Konstantin Kletschke 2008-08-28T11:16:45 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.wmii/3005 I am trying to compile and run the latest tip, I get so far as running it, and i get nothing so far, I have narrowed it down, it stops in wmii.sh at the line echo Start $scriptname 2> /dev/null | wmiir write /event || exit 1 because it says /event does not exist is there something i need to do? I compiled and installed the latest tip of libixp as well Thanks Alex Alex Kilgore 2008-08-25T01:56:26 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.wmii/2998 Hi! Is it possible to always send windows to managed space even if they hav a specified size? Apart from GIMP this would be nice and for GIMP there would be a "send to ~" specified in wmiirc anyway. For example Brasero uses a small burn dialog (when burning iso files) which is sent to floating space. I can manually send it to managed space but I would like that to happen automatically since there is no problem with it. Regards, Sladi Sladan 2008-08-18T12:33:40 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.wmii/2993 Hi there, The wmii guide links have been updated now. I still don't understand why Uriel is complaining about the hgiki thing. As far as I understood the discussion regarding the new wiki Kris and others agreed to keep the wmii bits at www.suckless.org resp. wmii.suckless.org. That's why I updated all wmii pages accordingly. That's also why all libixp and diri stuff has also been updated and kept at www.suckless.org/programs resp. www.suckless.org/libs. The dwm community has already proofed that the hgiki works quite well. If someone is unhappy with wmii/ contents, please feel free to update whatever you like as described here: http://www.suckless.org/wiki.html To keep track of wiki/site changes, rather subscribe to the RSS/Atom feed or subscribe to the wiki mailinglist: http://lists.suckless.org/wiki/ (wiki+subscribe< at >suckless.org) See http://www.suckless.org/common/community.html for other possibilities. Kind regards, --Anselm Anselm R Garbe 2008-08-17T09:03:04 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.wmii/2984 The manpage for wmii says that /rbar/ is sorted lexicographically. In other words, alphabetically. Is this really the case? For example, here is /rbar/'s rendering right now: Sun, Aug 03 01:26 AM || Inbox (0) || MPD: Modest Mouse - Float On [playing] So, if alphabetical, shouldn't it *actually* be: Inbox (0) || MPD: Modest Mouse - Float On [playing] || Sun, Aug 03 01:26 AM Some more info: 1. I tried prepending "000" to MPD, but it still doesn't change positions. 2. I tried calling the scripts in different orders in wmiirc with no luck. Any ideas? (I would prefer: MPD || Mail || Date) Michael Schreifels 2008-08-03T06:38:37 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.wmii/2983 hello. just a quick question. are there any plans to support xinerama with wmii? thanks mk Martin Kraus 2008-08-02T23:38:30 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.wmii/2978 Hello! I have been using wmii for quite some time now, and I absolutely love it. Today I began attempting to configure it with pywmii (a project that looks to be abandoned--or at least updated anymore). I have seen this come up in pywmii, python-wmii, and also when I have tried other tiling window manager, and I don't really understand the concept... What *are* tagging rules? The FAQ doesn't discuss it, the man pages don't touch on it, Google finds little but references to it config files...what are they used for? For example, in pywmii, the default wmiirc has this: # Tagging Rules wmii.tagrules = [ ("/SNAC/", "~"), ("/XMMS.*/", "~"), ("/MPlayer.*/", "~"), ("/.*Untitled.*/", "~"), #("/PyLaunch/", "~"), #("/.*gedit.*/", "~"), #(".*PyLaunch.*", "~"), ("/Send & Receive.*/", "~"), ("/.*Mozilla Firefox.*/", "web"), ("/.*Minefield.*/", "web"), ("/.*Evolution/", "mail"), ("/XChat.*/", "chat"), ("/mycalc\\.py/", "~"), ("/KTorrent/", "torrent"), ("/Pan: Michael Schreifels 2008-08-01T03:41:01 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.wmii/2976 issue #54 submitted via google code issue tracker, patch attached: http://code.google.com/p/wmii/issues/detail?id=54 thanks to sqweek for getting me started on the right track. Dewey Hylton 2008-07-30T11:32:52 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.wmii/2949 Hi I have been using wmii for quite a long time now and am very satisfied with it. An other application I use a lot is emacs. By default emacs displays a minibuffer at the bottom of each window wasting some screen real estate. In case you are not familiar with emacs let me explain some terminology: * Minibuffers are a lot like dmenu. They are used to interactively read some input from the user. * A frame is what you call a client. * Frames can be split into multiple windows. So emacs-frame=x11-window and emacs-window=something we don't have to worry about in this context. So in other words: in emacs each client has an input-area, called minibuffer, at the buttom. However it is possible to have only one minibuffer which is "linked" to whatever emacs client has focus. So if you invoke some command in an emacs client that needs to read input from the user the minibuffer gets focus and knows which client it acts on. The problem is that I can't put the minibuffer anywhere in wmii. If I just make it a float Jonas Bernoulli 2008-07-24T14:46:02 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.window-managers.wmii