Day 7 - dwm and suckless - I Hate The Patching! DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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Night
I recently decided to try dwm because of all the unixporn of it. I'm coming from gnome and dwm is my first tiling window manager. I understand what you're saying about that it shouldn't be my first, but I'm just playing around with it in a vm right now and the more I mess with it the more I'm really starting to like it. Just gonna take a bit to get all of my suckless programs configured the way I want them since I'm also new to suckless. Just started getting my status bar figured out (I've got the date/time updating automatically but I really want to center it, I might need a patch for that)
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I recently decided to try dwm because of all the unixporn of it. I'm coming from gnome and dwm is my first tiling window manager. I understand what you're saying about that it shouldn't be my first, but I'm just playing around with it in a vm right now and the more I mess with it the more I'm really starting to like it. Just gonna take a bit to get all of my suckless programs configured the way I want them since I'm also new to suckless. Just started getting my status bar figured out (I've got the date/time updating automatically but I really want to center it, I might need a patch for that)
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Mario
I'm just getting into this suckless stuff. Unfortunately, it isn't that suckless anyway, as I realize pretty much every patch will fail once a single patch has been applied.
I kinda figured out to patch this manually, but it's really tedious. I hope I can get this to work by simply updating the line numbers in the diff files, as deleting and pasting all by hand is just dull.
But I already know that I will succeed and end up using this stuff anyway. I can't put aside any computer annoyance. I -have- to fix it and get it working. This is actually the reason why I made it to Arch -
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I'm just getting into this suckless stuff. Unfortunately, it isn't that suckless anyway, as I realize pretty much every patch will fail once a single patch has been applied.
I kinda figured out to patch this manually, but it's really tedious. I hope I can get this to work by simply updating the line numbers in the diff files, as deleting and pasting all by hand is just dull.
But I already know that I will succeed and end up using this stuff anyway. I can't put aside any computer annoyance. I -have- to fix it and get it working. This is actually the reason why I made it to Arch -
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Sebastian
i use surf regulary, i bound some webapps on hotkeys, where i need a webservice in a single Window, like Wekan or nextcloud WebApp.
I'd recommend qutebrowser for daily use, since it's also vim-style, but uses tabs and has a little more gui clickery-do on it.
and it's seemless in terms of looks paired with a tiling WM, especially with i3. For compatability reasons, Firefox is always a side-load
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i use surf regulary, i bound some webapps on hotkeys, where i need a webservice in a single Window, like Wekan or nextcloud WebApp.
I'd recommend qutebrowser for daily use, since it's also vim-style, but uses tabs and has a little more gui clickery-do on it.
and it's seemless in terms of looks paired with a tiling WM, especially with i3. For compatability reasons, Firefox is always a side-load
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MaidLucy
suckless is a good idea that leads to something like this. the hassle of setting up dwm is outragous. Imma stay with i3, more versatile. yeah. versatile is bloat. except it isn't if your program is actually useful. like dmenu for example. that is a good, versatile program, but I cannot image the mindset of someone who would wanna use dwm as their primary and only window manager.
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suckless is a good idea that leads to something like this. the hassle of setting up dwm is outragous. Imma stay with i3, more versatile. yeah. versatile is bloat. except it isn't if your program is actually useful. like dmenu for example. that is a good, versatile program, but I cannot image the mindset of someone who would wanna use dwm as their primary and only window manager.
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Robertass2000
do you know how to keep keybinding working even keyboard is in totally
different language layout. I mean kill client is set to super+q but
since q is not available when keyboard is set to other language
keybinding does not work. I tried to use key code for q 0x0071 but no
luck.
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do you know how to keep keybinding working even keyboard is in totally
different language layout. I mean kill client is set to super+q but
since q is not available when keyboard is set to other language
keybinding does not work. I tried to use key code for q 0x0071 but no
luck.
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Robertass2000
do you know how to keep keybinding working even keyboard is in totally
different language layout. I mean kill client is set to super+q but
since q is not available when keyboard is set to other language
keybinding does not work. I tried to use key code for q 0x0071 but no
luck.
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do you know how to keep keybinding working even keyboard is in totally
different language layout. I mean kill client is set to super+q but
since q is not available when keyboard is set to other language
keybinding does not work. I tried to use key code for q 0x0071 but no
luck.
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ChaiBronz
Late to the comment game here, and you've prob long moved on from DWM by now, but wondering why windows so often vary in length on DWM. ie. note how the bottom of the windows aren't even here: 2: 53, 7: 12, 8: 29 etc Does DWM have different gap settings for Master vs Stack areas?
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Late to the comment game here, and you've prob long moved on from DWM by now, but wondering why windows so often vary in length on DWM. ie. note how the bottom of the windows aren't even here: 2: 53, 7: 12, 8: 29 etc Does DWM have different gap settings for Master vs Stack areas?
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Thim
12: 05 >for some reason it fails
When you apply a patch the source code changes (obviously, meaning that the lines in the next diff file you try to apply won't match with your current source files. Yes it is tedious but it is what it is.
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12: 05 >for some reason it fails
When you apply a patch the source code changes (obviously, meaning that the lines in the next diff file you try to apply won't match with your current source files. Yes it is tedious but it is what it is.
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