Re: [dev] wmii and floating controls

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 01:08:13AM -0500, Nick Guenther wrote:
>Actually
>$ wmii -v
>wmii-3.6, ��2007 Kris Maglione
>
>I thought I was on 3.5 because it installs the files
>/usr/local/share/examples/wmii-3.5/rc.wmii
>/usr/local/share/examples/wmii-3.5/welcome
>/usr/local/share/examples/wmii-3.5/wmiirc
>
>I'll bug.. somebody about that.

That was a very strange and generally silly design decision.
It's fixed. You really should switch to a UTF-8 locale...

>> This works in newer versions, but as mentioned above, 3.5 is ancient. If
>> you want to find out whether a client is floating, read /tag/sel/index and
>> see if it's in the '~' area.
>
>Ooh, thanks for that tip. And if sending to the floating layer does
>work in newer versions I'm satisfied. However if I'm actually on 3.6
>should that line work like I think? What's going on?

You might have to use 0 instead on 3.6. Otherwise, you'll just
have to grep /tag/sel/index and see whether the client's
floating to decide whether to toggle it.

>As for dmenu, here's a clip from /etc/wmii-3.5/wmiirc (which I copied
>to my userdir before doing anything):
><<CLIP
>WMII_BACKGROUND='#333333'
>WMII_FONT='-*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-*-*'
>
>set -- $(echo $WMII_NORMCOLORS $WMII_FOCUSCOLORS)
>WMII_MENU="dmenu -b -fn '$WMII_FONT' -nf '$1' -nb '$2' -sf '$4' -sb '$5'"
>WMII_9MENU="wmii9menu -font '$WMII_FONT' -nf '$1' -nb '$2' -sf '$4'
>-sb '$5' -br '$6'"
>WMII_TERM="xterm"
>
># Column Rules
>wmiir write /colrules <<!
>/.*/ -> 58+42
>!
>CLIP
>
>You guys didn't put that in there?

3.6 uses dmenu (and those god awful MENU variables...). It's the
only version that did, but I thought you were using 3.5, so you
can understand my confusion.

>> This is indeed strange, but I'd expect tagrules to do exactly what you
>> want. In newer versions, I'd suggest wihack, although I'm reminded it lacks
>> a man page...
>
>No, tagrules works exactly how I want. And for zenity (which is /all/
>modal dialogs) it's fine. But I can imagine running into a case where
>I want to float THIS instance and no other. More generally, wmii seems
>to just be incomplete without a knob for this.
>
>So do I need 3.9 to be able to do this?

Well, see above, but you need 3.9 if you want to use wihack,
which I suggest (despite it being, well, a hack).

-- 
Kris Maglione
When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they
are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you
expect?
	--Thomas Sowell