Re: [dwm] dwm-1.5 | dmenu-0.9

On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 08:27:48AM -0400, Ross Mohn wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 08:49 +0200, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I'm glad to announce new releases of dwm and dmenu.
> > Both contain several bugfixes and updated man pages.
> >
> > http://www.shortest.de/download/dwm-1.5.tar.gz
> > http://www.shortest.de/download/dmenu-0.9.tar.gz
> Nice!
>
> > dwm-1.5 is more predictable regarding global client order, it
> > keeps it untouched (esp. in floating mode and for floating
> > clients). The only exception occures if the focused client
> > is floating it will be raised in the specific set of selected
> > tags (though the z order information won't be lost).
> > dwm-1.5 also includes a global focus stack which remembers the
> > focus order for all clients. This is only used to restore the
> > focus on changing the set of tags currently viewed and if a
> > client is detached from the view.
> Did you mean to change the default FLOATSYMBOL and TILESYMBOL to the 3
> char versions rather that the old 1 char versions? I personally use 2
> char versions, but I just wanted to make sure that was an intentional
> default change.

Yes it was intended. I saw the # and ~ symbols on various
screenshots and it looked to painful for my taste.

> > dmenu-0.9 now grabs all keypresses, even if you type
> > while dmenu still reads items from stdin. The new strategy
> > uses a select() call which waits for data written to stdin
> > config.h:STDIN_TIMEOUT seconds. If no data is written during
> > this timeout (eg if there has been an accidently call of dmenu
> > from your interactive shell) it will exit silently.
> > Otherwise dmenu would grab the keyboard already before the user
> > could supply any input (or pressing C-d) as item list.
> > You might have noticed in wmiimenu and earlier versions of dmenu
> > that if you have a script running in the background not
> > finishing its job very fast, some keypresses are lost by dmenu.
> > This is not the case anymore due this fix.
> When I have an xterm focused and I press Shift-Return on a dmenu entry,
> shouldn't the command name be output to the xterm? I never tried this
> before, but it doesn't seem to work. Unless, of course, that's not how
> it's supposed to work.

Return
        Confirm selection and quit (print the selected item to
        standard output). Returns 0 on termination.

Shift-Return
        Confirm selection and quit (print the text in the input
        field to standard output). Returns 0 on ter- mination.

(this is from the man page)

Regards,

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