wmii-2-rc1

bleak · 2005-07-13 16:33:51

Dusty wrote:

what if you want to have 3 clients horizontally tiled?

I think you can't. IMO it's not that usable but it would be good to also have that layout.

Dusty wrote:

Some dialogs refuse to go into tiles mode. When you have both floating and tiled windows, its impossible to hide the floating windows like it used to be in wmi-10.

Floating windows are always on top now which is logical. Usually floating windows in a tiled workspace are just temporary dialogs.
You can always create a workspace with a float layout.

I also think IRC or the ML is the right place to post these bugs and feature requests. Here it's not likely to reach garbeam. The site also has a nice section for this.

bleak

phrakture · 2005-07-13 16:46:29

bleak wrote:

I also think IRC or the ML is the right place to post these bugs and feature requests. Here it's not likely to reach garbeam. The site also has a nice section for this.

I don't think any of us are "posting bugs" - we're just discussing oddities - the mouse focus thing has already been fixed in the latest snap anyway.

Dusty · 2005-07-13 16:54:19

bleak wrote:

Dusty wrote:
what if you want to have 3 clients horizontally tiled?
I think you can't. IMO it's not that usable but it would be good to also have that layout.

Not useable? This is THE standard layout for gimp...

With all the changes flying around in wmii, I don't think there's much point posting bugs yet. The bugs become obsolete quickly!

Dusty

bleak · 2005-07-13 17:11:25

Dusty wrote:

Not useable? This is THE standard layout for gimp...

Indeed...hadn't thought of that one.

bleak

Dusty · 2005-07-14 02:36:57

After using this, is anybody else finding the layout mechanism kind of restrictive? I can't have arbitrary layouts anymore.

I didn't really notice this until I wanted to put iphitus' sidenotes app on my screen. It works ok in tiled layout, but I can't resize the right tiles. Also, sometimes I want to put a terminal across the bottom, and I can't do that either. :'(

Oh well. wmii-3 will be something else. :-D

Dusty

phrakture · 2005-07-14 03:00:28

also... input focus does follow mouse - I click on my firefox window and start typing and *bam* "command not found" from the terminal

I guess you can duplicate it a bit with resizing in like grid/tile mode

you can define new layouts, I thought... right?

Dusty · 2005-07-14 03:01:32

phrakture wrote:

you can define new layouts, I thought... right?

Er... I think that feature's been removed. I forgot about grid layout though.

Dusty

phrakture · 2005-07-14 17:10:54

interesting thing to note:
anslem is forking the plan9 rc shell for linux - the rc shell from plan9 was designed simply for running scripts... it's not made to be an interactive shell.

rci (rc improved) : bash
500K (staticly linked) : 800K (dynamically linked)
200K RAM usage : 1.9M RAM usage

rc is supposedly ~50 times faster than bash and has a more C-esque syntax

rci is going to be used as the interpreter for all wmii scripts.

PS wmii-2 final should be released soon, wmii-3 will include rci

medicated · 2005-07-14 18:47:14

I saw a note about the shell replacement in the mailing list, but I wasn't sure whether it was something from scratch or not. Interesting..faster is better I guess. I'm interested to see the acutal speedup when its put in place. I'm still really impressed by wmii.

Stinky · 2005-07-14 18:51:35

I really like wmii2. I have an annoying problem with it though. After using it for a bit, keyboard combos quit working. ctrl+alt+a doesn't bring up the actions window. same for ctrl+alt+p and the programs window. alt+l and alt+h quit working...etc. Is that just my setup or have you guys seen this too?

Dusty · 2005-07-14 19:03:10

I've seen the keyboard combo problem, but I'm pretty sure its because I accidentally went into move or resize mode... Try pressing escape a couple times and see if that fixes it.

Dusty

phrakture · 2005-07-14 19:34:57

Dusty wrote:

I've seen the keyboard combo problem, but I'm pretty sure its because I accidentally went into move or resize mode... Try pressing escape a couple times and see if that fixes it.
Dusty

MODKEY+Esc too

SleepyDog · 2005-07-14 20:16:13

I've noticed that xbindkeys and wmii don't play nice.

Stinky · 2005-07-14 21:26:14

I tried ESC several times. But I didn't try MODKEY+esc. If/when it happens again, I'll try that.

Dusty · 2005-07-14 21:27:45

Also take a look at the box in the lower right corner to see whether you're in move/resize mode.

Dusty

Stinky · 2005-07-14 21:40:43

Ok. Will do.

phrakture · 2005-07-14 22:00:44

Dusty wrote:

Also take a look at the box in the lower right corner to see whether you're in move/resize mode.
Dusty

The format is:
<page number><layout><mode>
1tn (page 1, tiled layout, normal mode)
5gb (page 5, grid layout, bare mode)
3mm (page 3, maxed layout, move mode)
... etc ...

Stinky · 2005-07-15 03:46:49

Hasn't happened again yet. But I'm sure it will.

Stinky · 2005-07-15 11:33:00

Hmmm...Happened again. Box says 1tn
Esc doesn't work. Nor Alt+esc...ctrl+alt+esc... :?

iphitus · 2005-07-15 12:34:43

So! It's tommorow!

im giving this wmii thing a shot. It's wierd. And that's coming from an ion3 user. but it did give me a few ideas to improve my ion config

Still playing around with it, it feels like a warped mixup between a regular wm and a tiling wm.

ok, idea stealing time over, back to ion

iphitus

Dusty · 2005-07-15 14:38:35

iphitus wrote:

Still playing around with it, it feels like a warped mixup between a regular wm and a tiling wm.

I would concur if you remove the word 'warped'. :-D

I don't like how the floating layer is always on top. It wasn't like that in wmi-10. I'm hoping they're going to 'fix' that; maybe they already have. Or maybe they say its a feature to have them always on top...

Dusty

phrakture · 2005-07-15 15:35:04

Dusty wrote:

I don't like how the floating layer is always on top. It wasn't like that in wmi-10. I'm hoping they're going to 'fix' that; maybe they already have. Or maybe they say its a feature to have them always on top...

I'd submit it as a bug/feature request and see if they can add a toggle for that in ixp

iphitus · 2005-07-15 16:15:27

I remove the word warped.

By warped I meant new, different to me.

either way, im back in ion3 now

iphitus

Dusty · 2005-07-17 17:29:07

Our good man, phrakture has packaged wmii-2-rc2. I don't notice many differences, but its less quirky/buggy.

Dusty

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