But if you want to submit a PR, I'd happily accept it: or if you want to take over Alopex entirely, I'd be open to that too. I've essentially abandonded it and no longer use it myself. Though quite a lot of work and passion went into it, and it did pretty well for a WM learning project ... so I do still feel some attachment to it.
]]>The wiki and the default config mismatch is likely due to different versions. Between major version updates (2 to 3) there was no backwards compatability. Alopex 3 was a completely new creation very different from version 2.
I will not implement buttons on tabs - it would be challenging and is fairly antithetical to what I intended for this WM to be. But your free to hack away at it if you want to try to make a patch.
The popups should be able to be closed in two ways: one with the default binding of Alt+F4 to close the window, or they can be forced into tiling by toggling tiling with a keybinding or with the Mod+MiddleMouseButton.
Overall no worries about "waking the dead" - I hope Alopex isn't dead, just resting But please be patient as I look into these issues (and while starting a new dayjob and moving this month).
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In an unrelated topic - focus follows mouse doesn't seem to work for me. I also would like to submit a suggestion for a close button on each tab and a way (if there isn't one already) to close floating, undecorated popup windows like those goddamn popup ads, or at least force them into a tab/tile so they're out of the way. Thanks ahead!
PS: I didn't realize that this thread hasn't been active for over a year. Sorry, didn't mean to wake the dead. But I still need an answer though, thanks.
]]>Cairo doesn't really render the fonts, freetype2 does
Hey, what do I know?
I tried going to a size 12 from a 14, with droidsans, and they both look thin and raggedy. If I go to size 16 then the font looks smooth again, but it's a tad big for my liking. If I just use the aur roboto package size 14 displays nicely so I guess I'll just stick with that. My netbook uses the size 14 droidsans and it looks fine there so I'm guessing it's just a difference in the intel graphics between the two.
I am however still noticing that I'm getting kicked back to xdm on first login on the T61. I thought I had that straightened out by fixing my stat but it's doing it again and there are no erros apparent this time. I can log in fine the second time so I'm not quite sure whats going on now.
edit: I also just noticed that I got the blank tab/stat condition again on the T61. I went to use firefox and everything was fine while I had another tab opened for a terminal but when I closed that and just used firefox, the tab/stat area lost its text. I just see one tab and thats it. I have an .xsession error now but don't know if its relavent
(process:3804): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed
I can replicate this condition every time if I just start firefox by itself and when it starts and after it's closed there is no indications on the tab/stat area. They don't come back until I logout and back in.I just went back to the T61 to check out something that popped into my head and now the firefox problem seems to be ok after the restart and the roboto font. Probably nothing to do with the font anyway.
edit: Just noticed that I got the blank tab/status again coincidentally when I went to your github site. I used firefox to check email, weather, etc. but when I went to the github site, I got the blank text and single tab display.
]]>I've found a font that looks good on my T61 with alopex ver 4. It's Roboto-Medium which is from the roboto pkg in AUR. I guess that it's just an individual preference which relates to your graphics card. Obviously cairo renders fonts differently on different graphics cards. I'm also noticing that I'm not getting blank status indicators with this font. I'm not so confident with cairo's rendering of things seeing as it doesn't seem to like wine on my old nvidia card and now my intel graphics with fonts on my lenovo T61...?
]]>I'm finding that on starting alopex in Arch on my T61 Lenovo Thinkpad, intel graphics, I'm kicked back to my xdm login. I can get back in. no problem, on my second attempt. No .xsession-errors are apparent.
Also, I am getting blank status, tab status and tag status after starting firefox. I get a tab with no text and nothing to the right or left of the tab that is drawn. I've just noticed this recently so cannot zone in on what might have changed.
I haven't noticed this behavior on my netbook with intel graphics so I don't know where to go with this. Thoughts?
edit: I just found that my stat file is causing some problems in Arch. For some reason my cpu temp part of the stat has changed from /sys/classs/hwmon/hwmon0/temp1_input to /sys/class/hwmon/hwmono/device/temp1_input so alopex was kicking me out of X. I found this in an .xsession-errors file which hadn't shown this before. This must be some change in the kernel or somethng as I'm not seeing this in my Debian install on the same T61 laptop. What can I say?
edit: I am also noticing that on Arch the droid font is not rendering well on the T61. It seems thin and not as nice as on my netbook with intel graphics--t61 GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller whereas the netbook is an atom based intel graphics controller.
]]>I don't recall what the solution was, but if we can confirm that this is the problem (i.e. are your symptoms the same) then I can get cracking on a fix.
Yes, that is the behavior I have as well. If you look back to my post #220, it looks like the same problem then--don't know what you did to fix it though.
]]>I'm pretty sure the gtk3 devs don't care about window managers other than gnome and relatives.
Related issues have come up before and the reports are ignored. They are creating a new protocol and ignoring the existing ones.
Well, that's a bummer.
All the best,
-HG
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