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mienensuchkind

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Registered: 2007-01-21

Posts: 61

some wmii questions...

Hi there!
Im using wmii (3.5.1-3) for some days now and i got some issues i wasnt able to solve by myself yet...

1. How can i define the arrow keys for shortcuts in wmiirc? //EDIT: Same for Multimedia-Keys

2. How can i apply the gtk window decorations in wmii? (firefox and other apps look sooo ugly without murrine )

3. Whenever i start my browser, i resize it to a width of ~1100px... is there any way to resize it automatically on start, and to give it the right side of the screen?

4. Whenever i change the font in wmiirc to something more "interesting", x fails to start... thats annoying... i want a nicer font

Thank you for any answers!

Last edited by mienensuchkind (2007-09-06 12:58:29)

shining

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Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: some wmii questions...

Hi there!
Im using wmii (3.5.1-3) for some days now and i got some issues i wasnt able to solve by myself yet...

1. How can i define the arrow keys for shortcuts in wmiirc? //EDIT: Same for Multimedia-Keys

Aren't they already there ?
I see $LEFT , $RIGHT , $UP , $DOWN

2. How can i apply the gtk window decorations in wmii? (firefox and other apps look sooo ugly without murrine )

You could try gtk-chtheme.
Otherwise just edit ~/.gtkrc-2.0 manually.

4. Whenever i change the font in wmiirc to something more "interesting", x fails to start... thats annoying... i want a nicer font

Try adding the required FontPath in /etc/X11/xorg.conf .
And then try using xfontsel for selecting the font you want.
Also xlsfonts lists the available fonts.

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mienensuchkind

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Registered: 2007-01-21

Posts: 61

Re: some wmii questions...

Aren't they already there ?
I see $LEFT , $RIGHT , $UP , $DOWN

Nope, these are the variables for the keys... standartwise $DOWN=k $LEFT=j and so on... i want it like $RIGHT=UPARROW $DOWN=DOWNARROW

You could try gtk-chtheme.
Otherwise just edit ~/.gtkrc-2.0 manually.

If gtk-chtheme is a command, i dont have it ... nor do i know what i should write in my gtkrc, since it is completly empty

Try adding the required FontPath in /etc/X11/xorg.conf .
And then try using xfontsel for selecting the font you want.
Also xlsfonts lists the available fonts.

That one worked for me! thank you!

shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: some wmii questions...

You could try gtk-chtheme.
Otherwise just edit ~/.gtkrc-2.0 manually.

If gtk-chtheme is a command, i dont have it ... nor do i know what i should write in my gtkrc, since it is completly empty

Why not installing it ? Enable commutiny repo, then pacman -Ss chtheme.
There is also gtk2_prefs and gtk-theme-switch2.
chtheme is better than gtk-theme-switch2 imo, and I never tried gtk2_prefs.

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mienensuchkind

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Registered: 2007-01-21

Posts: 61

Re: some wmii questions...

Why not installing it ? Enable commutiny repo, then pacman -Ss chtheme.
There is also gtk2_prefs and gtk-theme-switch2.
chtheme is better than gtk-theme-switch2 imo, and I never tried gtk2_prefs.

My fault... i was searching for it but i must have misspelled s.th oO
Works wonders! Thank you again!

Ok now i have another issue... i updated to the latest wmii snapshot because it was so recommended, and now some window-borders have rounded corners.... looks crappy... anyway to change that?

shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: some wmii questions...

By the way, for all wmii specific questions, I highly recommend you to use wmii ML rather than this forum
http://www.suckless.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wmii

The same rule applies to many applications.

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mienensuchkind

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Registered: 2007-01-21

Posts: 61

Re: some wmii questions...

hmm i always refuse to use mailing lists because i never did that before and dunno how to use them properly... i always prefer forums ^^ but since there is no wmii forum i'll have to give it a try...

thank you for your help!

F

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Registered: 2006-10-09

Posts: 322

Re: some wmii questions...

also, try using the snapshots of wmii since they are actually (somewhat) being developed. 3.5 is, afaik, horrendously out of date.

mienensuchkind

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Registered: 2007-01-21

Posts: 61

Re: some wmii questions...

yep i already got the latest snapshot (and included the patch from the ml i found to remove the new ugly round corners )