changeset: 154:d88692482928
tag: tip
user: Frank Aspell <joe.user_AT_nohost.com2>
date: Tue Sep 16 11:13:54 2008 +0200
files: common/broken_programs.md common/dynamic_window_management.md dwm/customisation/customfuncs.md dwm/customisation/noinput.md dwm/customisation/patch_queue.md dwm/customisation/tagmask.md dwm/patches/workspaces.md dwm/tutorial.md people/Anydot.md people/Other_people.md people/index.md programs/ii.md programs/sic.md programs/slock.md programs/swarp.md programs/wmname.md wiki.md wmii/9p.md wmii/index.md
description:
Minor typos fixed with aspell and online dictionary.
diff -r c4eef53089e7 -r d88692482928 common/broken_programs.md
--- a/common/broken_programs.md Sun Sep 14 09:49:12 2008 +0100
+++ b/common/broken_programs.md Tue Sep 16 11:13:54 2008 +0200
_AT_@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
broken programs to fix them. Here are some of the main causes of this
brokenness:
-* The prgram assumes a specific window management model, i.e.
+* The program assumes a specific window management model, i.e.
assumes you are using a WIMP-window manager like those found in KDE
or Gnome. This assumption breaks the [ICCCM conventions](
http://tronche.com/gui/x/icccm/).
* The application uses a fixed size - this limitation does not fit
_AT_@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
WORKAROUND
----------
-If you still need some program wich expects a floating WM, use it in
+If you still need some program which expects a floating WM, use it in
floating mode.
The following programs are broken (see [cool programs](/common/cool_programs.html) for saner alternatives):
_AT_@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
* beep-media-player
* [Firefox](
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox) (doesn't set the
TRANSIENT_FOR hint correctly on its download dialog)
-* [GIMP](
http://www.gimp.org/) (GIMP expects a float enviroment to
+* [GIMP](
http://www.gimp.org/) (GIMP expects a float environment to
be useable)
* gqview
* gthumb
diff -r c4eef53089e7 -r d88692482928 common/dynamic_window_management.md
--- a/common/dynamic_window_management.md Sun Sep 14 09:49:12 2008 +0100
+++ b/common/dynamic_window_management.md Tue Sep 16 11:13:54 2008 +0200
_AT_@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
many applications and windows as he likes, and easily arrange them in a useful
way, helped by the window manager - the working environment changes with the
tasks the user is performing. The experience is very fluid and natural.
-Similiar concepts have been introduced in wmii and dwm.
+Similar concepts have been introduced in wmii and dwm.
Dynamic window management states that it is the window manager's job to manage
windows - and not the user's job to have to set up some specialized layout that
diff -r c4eef53089e7 -r d88692482928 dwm/customisation/customfuncs.md
--- a/dwm/customisation/customfuncs.md Sun Sep 14 09:49:12 2008 +0100
+++ b/dwm/customisation/customfuncs.md Tue Sep 16 11:13:54 2008 +0200
_AT_@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Cutom functions in config.h
+Custom functions in config.h
==============================================
*by [Jesus Galan (yiyus)](mailto:yiyu dot jgl at gmail>) (vie ago 22 19:53:32 CEST 2008)*
diff -r c4eef53089e7 -r d88692482928 dwm/customisation/noinput.md
--- a/dwm/customisation/noinput.md Sun Sep 14 09:49:12 2008 +0100
+++ b/dwm/customisation/noinput.md Tue Sep 16 11:13:54 2008 +0200
_AT_@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
*blame [Filippo Erik Negroni](mailto:f dot e dot negroni at googlemail dot com>) about this document*
-**dwm** reads its standard input during its main event loop. It will then update the statur bar with the contents of the standard input.
+**dwm** reads its standard input during its main event loop. It will then update the status bar with the contents of the standard input.
This has the effect of blocking the program if run in the background from a terminal session: the program blocks waiting for input.
If you want to run dwm in the background during an X session, and use an xterm to switch between window managers, this can be a problem.
diff -r c4eef53089e7 -r d88692482928 dwm/customisation/patch_queue.md
--- a/dwm/customisation/patch_queue.md Sun Sep 14 09:49:12 2008 +0100
+++ b/dwm/customisation/patch_queue.md Tue Sep 16 11:13:54 2008 +0200
_AT_@ -182,7 +182,7 @@
configh_dep
mfact_05
-to see which pacthes are currently applied to our tree.
+to see which patches are currently applied to our tree.
The order in which `qapplied` lists our patches is the order in which the patches were applied to our source tree, from top first to bottom last.
diff -r c4eef53089e7 -r d88692482928 dwm/customisation/tagmask.md
--- a/dwm/customisation/tagmask.md Sun Sep 14 09:49:12 2008 +0100
+++ b/dwm/customisation/tagmask.md Tue Sep 16 11:13:54 2008 +0200
_AT_@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
What does tagmask 1 << 8 mean?
------------------------------
-1 shifted to the left by eight positions generates mask 10000000, selecting tag '9' (nineth from the right) in the the tags array.
+1 shifted to the left by eight positions generates mask 10000000, selecting tag '9' (ninth from the right) in the the tags array.
What does ~0 mean?
------------------
diff -r c4eef53089e7 -r d88692482928 dwm/patches/workspaces.md
--- a/dwm/patches/workspaces.md Sun Sep 14 09:49:12 2008 +0100
+++ b/dwm/patches/workspaces.md Tue Sep 16 11:13:54 2008 +0200
_AT_@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
It should be easy to add to the workspaces the possibility to remember bar position too.
-It is not neccesary to define all your workspaces (or any of them). You can perfectly do:
+It is not necessary to define all your workspaces (or any of them). You can perfectly do:
static Workspace workspaces[16] = {
/* tagset layout fact */
diff -r c4eef53089e7 -r d88692482928 dwm/tutorial.md
--- a/dwm/tutorial.md Sun Sep 14 09:49:12 2008 +0100
+++ b/dwm/tutorial.md Tue Sep 16 11:13:54 2008 +0200
_AT_@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
dwm has two further layout modes, **floating** `><>` `[Alt]+[f]` and
**monocle** `[M]` `[Alt]+[m]`. Monocle is good for ensuring a window is kept
-maxmised and focused. This is useful in web kiosk environments and watching
+maximised and focused. This is useful in web kiosk environments and watching
flash videos.
Floating layout will be familiar to Windows users. Use `[Alt]+[mouse button]` to
diff -r c4eef53089e7 -r d88692482928 people/Anydot.md
--- a/people/Anydot.md Sun Sep 14 09:49:12 2008 +0100
+++ b/people/Anydot.md Tue Sep 16 11:13:54 2008 +0200
_AT_@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
Anydot
======
-Some day, there might be something. Cooming soon :-)
+Some day, there might be something. Coming soon :-)
Test2
diff -r c4eef53089e7 -r d88692482928 people/Other_people.md
--- a/people/Other_people.md Sun Sep 14 09:49:12 2008 +0100
+++ b/people/Other_people.md Tue Sep 16 11:13:54 2008 +0200
_AT_@ -28,8 +28,8 @@
* Gabriel (various feedback, various color schemes)
* Gavin McCullagh (contributed various ideas)
* Georg Neis (Developer, documentation, tests)
-* grayrest (great ideas for the menu, select-frame policiy beside many other valuable ideas)
-* Hannes Klas (contributed themes and maintans some translations in the Wiki)
+* grayrest (great ideas for the menu, select-frame policy beside many other valuable ideas)
+* Hannes Klas (contributed themes and maintains some translations in the Wiki)
* Henning Bekel (various feedback concerning the ratpoison shortcut handling)
* Dr. Johann Pfefferl (several patches which fixed many issues)
* John Pham (Debian Packager, Sysadmin)
_AT_@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
* Martin Moncrieff (various feedback concerning Mathematica issues)
* Mathieu L (contributed various feedback)
* Matthew Allen (contributed several themes and great art assets, works on the WMI mascot)
-* Michael Ihde (provided several fixes to the container.h class and documenation)
+* Michael Ihde (provided several fixes to the container.h class and documentation)
* [Nico Golde (nion)](
http://www.ngolde.de) (testing, fixes, wmii-2 blue theme, [ii developer](
http://irc.suckless.org))
* [Norman Golisz](
http://www.zcat.de) (documentation)
* Norman Köhring (pSy) (developer of szs)
diff -r c4eef53089e7 -r d88692482928 people/index.md
--- a/people/index.md Sun Sep 14 09:49:12 2008 +0100
+++ b/people/index.md Tue Sep 16 11:13:54 2008 +0200
_AT_@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
People
======
-These are short pages for active members of the suckless.org community. Active contributers are welcome to post information about themselves, and to post relevant material.
+These are short pages for active members of the suckless.org community. Active contributors are welcome to post information about themselves, and to post relevant material.
diff -r c4eef53089e7 -r d88692482928 programs/ii.md
--- a/programs/ii.md Sun Sep 14 09:49:12 2008 +0100
+++ b/programs/ii.md Tue Sep 16 11:13:54 2008 +0200
_AT_@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
If you want to see a live demonstration of a bot written for ii, join #grml on freenode, the grml-tips bot which searches
for [grml](
http://www.grml.org) tips and gives a link or error messages is written in 45 lines of /bin/sh. No, I will not publish
-the code since I realy suck in shell programming :)
+the code since I really suck in shell programming :)
Stat scripts
------------
_AT_@ -156,7 +156,7 @@
command_line /usr/bin/printf "%b" "$TIME$ Host $HOSTALIAS$ is $HOSTSTATE$ -- $HOSTOUTPUT$\n" | /home/nagios/bin/nagios_post.pl
}
-Start ii apropriately and add notify-by-irc and host-notify-by-irc to the apropriate "service_notification_commands" and "host_notification_commands" -- and you have your own Nagios IRC bot.
+Start ii appropriately and add notify-by-irc and host-notify-by-irc to the appropriate "service_notification_commands" and "host_notification_commands" -- and you have your own Nagios IRC bot.
rsstail
-------
diff -r c4eef53089e7 -r d88692482928 programs/sic.md
--- a/programs/sic.md Sun Sep 14 09:49:12 2008 +0100
+++ b/programs/sic.md Tue Sep 16 11:13:54 2008 +0200
_AT_@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
SIMPLE IRC CLIENT
=================
-sic is an extremly simple IRC client. It consists of lesser than 250 lines of code. It is the little brother of [irc it](/programs/ii.html).
+sic is an extremely simple IRC client. It consists of lesser than 250 lines of code. It is the little brother of [irc it](/programs/ii.html).
Download
--------
_AT_@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
<B>sic</B>
-is an extremly fast, small and simple irc client. It reads commands from
+is an extremely fast, small and simple irc client. It reads commands from
standard input and prints all server output to standard output. It multiplexes
also all channel traffic into one output, that you don't have to switch
different channel buffers, that's actually a feature.
diff -r c4eef53089e7 -r d88692482928 programs/slock.md
--- a/programs/slock.md Sun Sep 14 09:49:12 2008 +0100
+++ b/programs/slock.md Tue Sep 16 11:13:54 2008 +0200
_AT_@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
SLOCK
=====
-Simple X display locker. Really this is the simpliest X screen locker we are
+Simple X display locker. Really this is the simplest X screen locker we are
aware of. It is stable and quite a lot people in this community are using it
every day when they are out with friends or fetching some food from the local
pub.
diff -r c4eef53089e7 -r d88692482928 programs/swarp.md
--- a/programs/swarp.md Sun Sep 14 09:49:12 2008 +0100
+++ b/programs/swarp.md Tue Sep 16 11:13:54 2008 +0200
_AT_@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
SSWARP
======
-Simple pointer warping tool for X. Warps the mouse pointer to a gived position, e.g.:
+Simple pointer warping tool for X. Warps the mouse pointer to a given position, e.g.:
sswarp 100 100
diff -r c4eef53089e7 -r d88692482928 programs/wmname.md
--- a/programs/wmname.md Sun Sep 14 09:49:12 2008 +0100
+++ b/programs/wmname.md Tue Sep 16 11:13:54 2008 +0200
_AT_@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
WMNAME
======
-wmname prints/sets the window manager name property of the root window similiar
+wmname prints/sets the window manager name property of the root window similar
to how hostname(1) behaves.
wmname is a nice utility to fix problems with JDK versions and other broken
diff -r c4eef53089e7 -r d88692482928 wiki.md
--- a/wiki.md Sun Sep 14 09:49:12 2008 +0100
+++ b/wiki.md Tue Sep 16 11:13:54 2008 +0200
_AT_@ -55,5 +55,5 @@
Bugs
----
Mercurial aborts with the message "unknown bundle compression type" if you want
-to push with version 0.9.1. (Maybe this affectes every version before 1.0.)
+to push with version 0.9.1. (Maybe this affects every version before 1.0.)
If you use Debian Etch, there is a backport.
diff -r c4eef53089e7 -r d88692482928 wmii/9p.md
--- a/wmii/9p.md Sun Sep 14 09:49:12 2008 +0100
+++ b/wmii/9p.md Tue Sep 16 11:13:54 2008 +0200
_AT_@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
mount /mnt/wmii
-at the begining of your `rc.wmii` or `wmiirc`.
+at the beginning of your `rc.wmii` or `wmiirc`.
Inferno
-------
_AT_@ -51,6 +51,6 @@
; mount -A {os sh -c 'nc -U /tmp/ns.$USER.$DISPLAY/wmii' >[1=0]} /mnt/wmii
-I suspect that the overhead of piping through dial or netcat is comprable to the overhead of TCP.
+I suspect that the overhead of piping through dial or netcat is comparable to the overhead of TCP.
Have fun ;)
diff -r c4eef53089e7 -r d88692482928 wmii/index.md
--- a/wmii/index.md Sun Sep 14 09:49:12 2008 +0100
+++ b/wmii/index.md Tue Sep 16 11:13:54 2008 +0200
_AT_@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
alternate controlling script, written in
[rc](
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/rc.html). `rc.wmii` supports a
`rc.wmii.local` convention which allows you to keep local customisations
-seperate from the main script so you don't have to merge them every time
+separate from the main script so you don't have to merge them every time
`rc.wmii` changes.
It is optional, the default `wmiirc` depends on only standard unix tools,
Received on Tue Sep 16 2008 - 11:16:39 CEST