* I have a utility which tracks which window is focused and estimates time. This uses xdotool. Under spectrwm, `xdotool getactivewindow` occasionally reports that there is no _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW atom on the root window. This is difficult to trigger, but I'm reasonably sure it is either during the process of switching workspaces, or when the screenlocker (slock, automatically managed by xautolock) activates.
* It's possible to confuse spectrwm so that you can't spawn new windows ( the application starts, as evidenced by terminal messages, but no window appears). The cause for this was probably a mistake that launched several instances of sxiv within a very short time. Exiting spectrwm and restarting X fixed this state. (this could even be an X bug, I guess.. No solid basis of comparison)
I realize I don't have any reliable means of reproducing these, otherwise I'd file them in the bugtracker, but I was wondering if anyone else has encountered these?
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bar_font = Droid Sans mono:style=Regular:pixelsize=12:antialias=true
I worked some time with Droid Sans mono, currently I use Consolas. I use dzen2 & conky as bar_action
]]>Are you using the Symbola font? So far I haven't been able to get it to work with XLFD, but it works fine with Xft.
spectrwm uses XLFD by default. To use Xft you can try the following entry in your spectrwm.conf:bar_font = Symbola:pixelsize=14:antialias=true
Thank you, it looks like setting the font this way lets unicode work right
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EDIT: I don't suppose there are any good mono fonts with a good range of unicode?
I've tried Hack, PragmataPro, and Unifont; but the support is so so (hack/pragmata), or it looks crappy (unifont).
I just kind of like the mono look.
Right now, I am just using the default (I don't have it set).
I'm pretty sure this means it is set to:-*-terminus-medium-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
Are you using the Symbola font? So far I haven't been able to get it to work with XLFD, but it works fine with Xft.
spectrwm uses XLFD by default. To use Xft you can try the following entry in your spectrwm.conf:
bar_font = Symbola:pixelsize=14:antialias=true
-*-terminus-medium-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
What is your bar_font entry in spectrwm.conf?
Has anyone else noticed issues with spectrwm, using conky for the bar, and a great deal of unicode failing to output correctly?
(examples of characters tried https://notabug.org/demure/dotfiles/src … nky#L44-49 )I fear the answer is going to be that I need to play with the default font, as font configuration is a weak point for me.
What is your bar_font entry in spectrwm.conf?
]]>I fear the answer is going to be that I need to play with the default font, as font configuration is a weak point for me.
]]>From the mailing list:
We’ll take patches. Slow doesn’t mean dead. It means it is “done”.
We let “nice” things always in even if we disagree. The rules are simple:
* Don’t break backwards compat, ever
* Must be written in the correct style
* Must not be a one off type deal
* Must not add deps
* Must not be a hog memory, cpu or what have youWith that we’ll practically take anything. At this point I really only have one
big missing feature on my list. A pure floating mode; I won’t use it but I am
aware folks would.There are some buglets and nits left over but those are lurking in deep dark
corners.Worst thing we miss is a good tutorial and better doco.
The mailing list is slow, but I think still monitored:
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window … .spectrwm/
Anyway, the only other thing I can suggest is a key binding that moves the bar to the workspace and then switches to that. Again, I've not tried it.
]]>I haven't tried it, but I did think that the region was an area on a screen that spectrwm "ignored", so the bar was needed to be either outside its control or moved across workspaces. Don't know how to do either easily, though.
]]>I use the spectrwm bar and dmenu with the standard key binding that toggles the dmenu bar on. It works as if it's one bar toggling. I assume any other bar would behave the same way with dmenu, but I've not used any of them. You may find examples up-thread or in the forum, I know others have (at least in the past, if not currently).
You could also do a github or web search for spectrwm.conf, to see what others may be doing.
Sorry, only pointers as I keep it fairly vanilla.
]]>"ArchLinux" fixed to far left, "focused window name" fixed in the center, and "date/time" fixed at the far right side of the bar, and "date/time"'s position should not be affected by the numbers of characters in "focused window name".
Alternatively, is there such a thing as a status bar that can toggle between status bar and launch bar, similar to the bar in Windowlab?
]]>I figured it out. I feel so silly - for some odd reason I thought that my netbook's display had a resolution of 1024x768, but it is actually 1024x600, so whenever the vertical res was set above 600, it acted like the extra pixels should go to another screen. Once I had a chance to figure it out, it works fine now. I might post a screenshot or two of my desktop. Thanks for your help anyways.
PS: Skanky, that forum that you mentioned doesn't exist anymore
It's here: https://opensource.conformal.com/fluxbb … .php?id=10
While no longer used, some threads might be useful as a reference.
The mailing list is dead, but as far as I know still running and monitored. There might be an archive somewhere, but I haven't found one (or looked really as I've been subscribed since about the beginning of it).
So unfortunately, there's not a lot of help out there, really. The wiki is nearly as good as it gets:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Scrotwm
Glad you sorted it though.
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