Re: [hackers] About swapfocus dwm patch

From: vinícius mota <vcmota78_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 14:18:51 +0000

Thank you Aaron for your kind reply. I will indeed try stacker instead.

Best regards,
Vinícius.

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On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 11:53 AM Aaron Duxler <aaron_AT_duxler.xyz> wrote:
> Hi Vinícius,
>
> sorry for the inconveniences. I have added a view features to the
> swapfocus patch, because I did not like the default behavior of it.
>
> Though I'm not using this patch any more and for that reason I won't fix
> the patch.
> If it is really not working I will remove the recent  swapfocus patch from
> the wiki.
>
> I'm using now the stacker patch instead. It also provides the features
> swapfocus provided as well as some other useful stuff.
> Imho the stacker patch is also a lot cleaner.
> I would recommend you to either try an older version of swapfocus or the
> stacker patch instead.
>
> Sorry and kind regards,
> Aaron
>
>
> Am 30. September 2020 04:58:01 MESZ schrieb "vinícius mota" <
> vcmota78_AT_gmail.com>:
> >Thank you very much Chris for your reply.
> >
> >I just tried again, from scratch, and failed again, with the same
> >error.
> >Early on today I successfully installed other suckless patches, this
> >time
> >for st, following the same procedure and everything worked flawlessly.
> >In
> >fact since I have two other patches for dwm in place, everytime dwm is
> >reinstalled those two patches are reinstalled as well, and that
> >happened
> >several times today.
> >
> >It may be nonsense but I have looked up several patches' codes today
> >and
> >noticed that the beginning of the swapfocus patch is different, with a
> >different "diff" command:
> >
> >diff -up a/config.def.h b/config.def.h
> >--- a/config.def.h     2020-01-29 00:06:12.415681126 +0100
> >+++ b/config.def.h     2020-01-29 13:25:14.167910093 +0100
> >_AT__AT_ -66,6 +66,7
> >
> >while for all others that I have looked in such as hide vacant tags the
> >diff command reads
> >
> >diff --git a/dwm.c b/dwm.c
> >index 4465af1..c4aa3de 100644
> >--- a/dwm.c
> >+++ b/dwm.c
> >_AT__AT_ -416,7 +416,7 @@
> >
> >Other than that I have no idea of why it is failing the way it is.
> >
> >Anyway, thank you again very much for your reply.
> >
> >Vinícius.
> >
> >
> >
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> >On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 10:29 PM Chris Down <chris_AT_chrisdown.name>
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Vinícius,
> >>
> >> The error message from patch is quite clear that it failed to apply,
> >so
> >> compilation is premature. You need to either massage it in, or find a
> >> patch
> >> which roughly matches your version.
> >>
> >>
>

Received on Thu Oct 01 2020 - 16:18:51 CEST