Re: [wmii] wmii-3 configuration - in Ruby

Hi Suraj,

On 6/3/06, Suraj N. Kurapati <skurapat_AT_ucsc.edu> wrote:
> I've finally configured wmii-3 to my liking, so I thought I'd share
> my configuration (written in Ruby) with the wmii community. Both
> files reside in my ~/.wmii-3 directory.

I tested your script and adopted it to my needs (I like the ratpoison
alike prefix-key). It is really great, it feels much faster than the
original shellscript, and the following things are "killer-features":

> Some enhancements to the default configuration are:
>
> - - Select any client via wmiimenu ("#{MENU}a")

wonderfull!

> - - Rename an entire view ("#{SEND}r")

I don't see the need for that command....

> - - Cycle to left view ("#{SELECT}comma")

> - - Cycle to right view ("#{SELECT}period")

Both of them are absolutely great. Thats the thing i missed the most
in the original wmiirc.

> Some differences from the default configuration are:
>
> - - The numeric select ($MODKEY-[0-9]) and sendto
> ($MODKEY-Shift-[0-9]) shortcuts operate on views shown on the bar,
> instead of absolute tag names. They also correspond to the
> conventional horizontal arrangement of number keys: 1234567890 (left
> to right).

This is wonderfull. This is a way to select named views in a fast an
convenient way. I really like it!

> When you sendto a nonexistent view, the view is created by wmii, as
> expected.
>
> - - The shortcut keys are friendly for a Kinesis Advantage keyboard
> with Dvorak layout. :-P

Okay, I changed it back to hjkl-layout...

I have some points about the script as such:
The split of the MODKEY-variable seems to be overkill. It made me lots
of troubles when I changed modkey to "Control-t,". Anyways, with that
script you made me (a perl programmer) use ruby.... . When I have time
I'll write a wmiirc in perl though.

Anyways, great work! Could you rewrite wmii.rb to work on the socket
directly instead of calling wmiir everytime? Maybe that would give a
little more speadup.

-- 
greetings,
                  Steffen Liebergeld