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When I start wmii, the default tag is 'nil' but I remember that it used to be 1. Maybe this happened in 3.6, but I'm not sure. Is this the correct behavior for the repository wmii? Here is a link to my wmiirc: http://pastie.org/411139
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I see the same thing. It only stays until you open a new window. wmii actually removes all tags that currently do not contain any windows. On boot, you obviously don't have any windows which is why the tag is named nil
I wouldn't know if it was different in earlier versions as I just started using wmii.
On a related note: have you been able to define shortcuts for starting some apps? How did you do it?
Last edited by Inxsible (2009-03-08 21:53:28)
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Thanks lnxsible. I was sure I had messed something up in my wmiirc. It seemed odd to have windows default to the nil tab on startup.
On a related note: have you been able to define shortcuts for starting some apps? How did you do it?
I've added some keybindings to my wmiirc above for increasing/decreasing/muting the volume. I'm pretty sure you could use the same method to start firefox, etc. I've also got a handful of simple action scripts to change the wallpaper, connect to my wireless networks, shutdown and reboot, take screenshots, and generate whitenoise that I see when I press mod-a.
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Thanks lnxsible. I was sure I had messed something up in my wmiirc. It seemed odd to have windows default to the nil tab on startup.
Inxsible wrote:On a related note: have you been able to define shortcuts for starting some apps? How did you do it?
I've added some keybindings to my wmiirc above for increasing/decreasing/muting the volume. I'm pretty sure you could use the same method to start firefox, etc. I've also got a handful of simple action scripts to change the wallpaper, connect to my wireless networks, shutdown and reboot, take screenshots, and generate whitenoise that I see when I press mod-a.
Can you give me couple of examples from your wmiirc?
Also, I am not happy with the trayer app in wmii and dwm. I use stalonetray in Openbox, but in wmii or dwm, it only shows up on the tag that i created it on. Also it keeps blinking and overall is not as steady with it showing me time and date sometimes. I guess that's probably because wmii and dwm use xsetroot to display status and somehow stalonetray is also getting that info.
What tray do you use?
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Key $MODKEY-i
amixer -q set Master 5%+
Key $MODKEY-o
amixer -q set Master 5%-
Key $MODKEY-u
amixer -q set Master toggle
Here is how I got control of volume by keybindings in my wmiirc. You can just add these to the bottom of #keybindings section just before that for loop with the 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9. Make sure you use tabbed indentation and not spaces. I was having this problem for the longest time.
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Thanks kandrews. I wil add a few shortcuts and see how they work.
Is there anyway to have all windows leave a margin of 12px on the top, so I can view my 1 line conky even if I have windows open?
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Sorry, I can't help you with conky or trayer. I don't use either. I just use a basic wmii statusbar with system temps, battery status and date. Maybe look into dzen or sswriter? You also might be able to do more advanced stuff with wmii-lua or wmii-ruby. Good luck.
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Have you solved your problem yet? When I still used wmii (I switched to e17 once again) I defined some tagrules, for example one that automatically added the tags "web" and "com" to kopete. But if then I started kopete before any other app it would have the tags "nil", "web" and "com".
I never found a solution, but sucessfully managed to ignore the problem
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Have you solved your problem yet? When I still used wmii (I switched to e17 once again) I defined some tagrules, for example one that automatically added the tags "web" and "com" to kopete. But if then I started kopete before any other app it would have the tags "nil", "web" and "com".
I never found a solution, but sucessfully managed to ignore the problem
Nope I havent been able to define tag rules just yet. But that is also because I have been playing around with dwm more than wmii.
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Nope. I'm still in the same boat. All I can think is that either the authors thought adding the first application to the 'nil' tag was a good idea, or I made a mistake with my tagging rules. Here are mine:
# Tagging Rules
wmiir write /tagrules <<!
/Firefox.*/ -> ~
/MPlayer.*/ -> ~
/gnome-mplayer.*/ -> ~
/Gimp.*/ -> ~
/anki.*/ -> ~
/.*/ -> sel
!
edit: I tried adding /.*/ -> 1 to the end of the tagging rules and it didn't do anything. Then I deleted everything save the last two lines. Now it works like it used to. I got tired of typing MOD+t m versus MOD-3, so I just use numbers now anyway.
Last edited by kandrews (2009-03-11 23:48:06)
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Hey guys!!!
I am also looking to run wmii in my Arch. I guess I have the same thing as Kandrews, after i type startx i get a small bar at the bottom with time date and "nil" in the far left of the bar. I have fire-fox, dmenu, urxvt and I guess I'm just looking for a why to run these apps. I do not get the whole mod and tagging yet.
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Hey Xenokite!
Check out the wiki page for wmii: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wmii
I added some stuff about tagging to Inxsible's fine work.
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Hey Xenokite!
Check out the wiki page for wmii: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wmii
I added some stuff about tagging to Inxsible's fine work.
Sweet thanks a lot i take a look at it.:D:D
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