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It is working now (i tried several times, in several documents etc). Thank you for this
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Just foolin' around...
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What a cute monster
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Just foolin' around...
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/261312/monster.png
You might also want to post this here:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130686
I'm afraid the mwm trigram is already taken by the Motif Window Manager.
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I'm afraid the mwm trigram is already taken by the Motif Window Manager.
You should be afraid of monsters... and so should Motif!
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I've made a few monsterwm artworks:
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I've made Mon5ter_bits
#define monster_width 8
#define monster_height 8
static unsigned char monster_bits[] = {
0x3c, 0x7e, 0xdd, 0x99, 0xff, 0xc3, 0x72, 0x3c };
Last edited by ivoarch (2012-01-09 20:04:01)
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Any idea how to add another panel,
like the bottom_padding.patch for dwm?
Speaking of that, what panels are people here using for monsterwm?
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How can I make all windows of all tags visible with e.g. Mod4+0 ? It's a nice feature imo. And being able to focus more than one tag at once, e.g. tag 3 and 4 is also very nice. I know I always compare monsterwm with dwm, but those features really improve the window management. After those two enabled, I'll definitely stick with monsterwm.
Army wrote:Oh, just yesterday I ran monsterwm and watched some videos with mplayer. I don't know why, but Xorg crashed very often, which usually doesn't happen and it didn't continue to happen with dwm.
I have no idea, I just tried a couples of movies and seeked through them with mplayer and all was good. Did you update your video card drivers and that caused some issue ? I dont know, if it happens again report and I'll look deeper
The problem with the crash with mplayer after toggling fullscreen only happens sometimes, but it still happens. Any hint how I can deliver usable informations? I use the xf86-video-ati driver with this card
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M56P [Radeon Mobility X1600]
And I use the xv video driver in mplayer.
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ivoarch wrote:Any idea how to add another panel,
like the bottom_padding.patch for dwm?Speaking of that, what panels are people here using for monsterwm?
Monsterwm does not provide a panel and/or statusbar itself. Instead it adheres to the UNIX philosophy and outputs information about the existent desktop, the number of windows on each, the mode of each desktop, the current desktop and urgent hints whenever needed. The user can use whatever tool or panel suits him best (dzen2, conky, w/e), to process and display that information.
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Monsterwm does not provide a panel and/or statusbar itself. Instead it adheres to the UNIX philosophy and outputs information about the existent desktop, the number of windows on each, the mode of each desktop, the current desktop and urgent hints whenever needed. The user can use whatever tool or panel suits him best (dzen2, conky, w/e), to process and display that information.
I know mate. That is why i ask what people here use
conky, fbpanel? I'm not sure what to use (and should i use it at all).
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ivoarch wrote:Monsterwm does not provide a panel and/or statusbar itself. Instead it adheres to the UNIX philosophy and outputs information about the existent desktop, the number of windows on each, the mode of each desktop, the current desktop and urgent hints whenever needed. The user can use whatever tool or panel suits him best (dzen2, conky, w/e), to process and display that information.
I know mate. That is why i ask what people here use
conky, fbpanel? I'm not sure what to use (and should i use it at all).
Most people run Dzen by piping monsterwm's output into it while formatting the layout with bash.
You can chose anything you'd like that can be driven from scripts or takes raw text input, you just have to hack it up yourself(or take someone else's work).
Last edited by Tzbob (2012-01-11 13:13:57)
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kuraku, dzen2 (the svn version for 'clickable-areas') is highly recommended. dzen2 & monsterwm makes for a great pair IMO.
place your dzen script in ~/.xinitrc
my_bar.sh&
& then call monsterwm
monsterwm
Here's my dzen script, use/abuse as needed, & goodluck.
#!/bin/sh
# font
FNT='-*-terminus-*-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*'
# mute/unmute toggle
MUE='amixer -q sset Master toggle'
# pop3 email message count
# requires elwood's email scanner at
# http://www.topcat.hypermart.net/elwood.html
ELW='xterm -e "elwood -f ~/.elwoodrc -r"; skill dzen2; skill dbar; dbar&'
# mail reader
EML='xterm -e "getmail -a -d && mutt"; skill dzen2; skill dbar; dbar&'
# used for checking pop3 server for email every 10min.
NUM=10
# todo: displays throughput used by eth0
#RXB=$(echo $(echo $(cat /sys/class/net/eth0/statistics/rx_bytes) / 1024 | bc)KB/s)
#TXB=$(echo $(echo $(cat /sys/class/net/eth0/statistics/tx_bytes) / 1024 | bc)KB/s)
while :; do
# displays cpu load
CPU=$(echo "CPU: $(uptime | sed 's/,//g' | cut -d ' ' -f 12)%")
# displays mobo temperature
TMP=$(echo "MOBO: $(sensors -Af | awk \
'{if (NR == 2) print substr($2, 2, length($2 - 2))}')f")
# displays current volume level of soundcard
VOL=$(amixer sget Master | grep -m1 "%]" | \
cut -d "[" -f2 | cut -d "]" -f1)
# shows free disk space on '/'
DSK=$(echo "Free disk space: $(df -h / | awk \
'{if (NR == 2) print tolower($4)}')")
# formatted date output
DTE=$(date "+%I:%M %p %a %D ")
# displays free ram
RAM=$(echo "RAM: $(free -m | grep '^-/+' | awk '{print $4}')m")
# check email every 10min.
if [[ $NUM -eq 10 ]]; then
MSG=$(echo "Messages: $(elwood -f ~/.elwoodrc -n)")
NUM=0
else
NUM=$(($NUM + 1))
fi
# here's where the rubber meets the road...
# note how dzen2 allows you to wrap both a
# left & right click in the same construct
# ^ca(1,fubar)^ca(3,bebblebrox)blurb^ca()^ca()
echo -e "\
^ca(1, xterm -e 'htop')$CPU | \
$TMP | \
$RAM | \
$DSK ^ca()| \
^ca(1,$MUE)^ca(3,xterm -e 'alsamixer')Volume: $VOL^ca()^ca() | \
^ca(1,$ELW)^ca(3,$EML)$MSG^ca()^ca() | \
^ca(1,xmonthly.sh)$DTE^ca()"
sleep 59
done | dzen2 -fn $FNT -bg gray -fg black -ta r -e 'button3=exec:xterm'
# eof
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Thank you guys. I never really wanted to try dzen since i could not find any use for it. I can give it a try now. Thank you again for answers.
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How can I restart monsterwm without killing all the running applications? With dwm I did it with "exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session dwm-start" in the last line of .xinitrc and dwm-start looking like this
while true; do
dwm
done
I tried the same with monsterwm, but here the applications get killed. I tried both
{ MOD4|SHIFT, XK_Escape, quit, {.i = 0}}, /* quit with exit value 0 */
{ MOD4|CONTROL, XK_Escape, quit, {.i = 1}}, /* quit with exit value 1 */
but both have the same effect.
Any help?
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@Army
For restarting dwm without logging out or closing applications, change or add a startup script so that it loads dwm in a while loop, like this:
while true; do
# Log stderror to a file
dwm 2> ~/.dwm.log
# No error logging
#dwm >/dev/null 2>&1
done
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Dunno why people like tiling and all that kind of sort...
I hate tiling! what's the matter? people don't have nice equipments that need to use that 'thing' whatever?
Last edited by 1archgamenon2 (2012-01-11 20:28:59)
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Dunno why people like tiling and all that kind of sort...
I look at it this way,
1. I have a limited amount of pixels, 1920x1080. Due to this limited number I want to use as much space as I can, tiling enables this.
2. I'm a lazy person, I want to achieve goal 1 with the least amount of effort as I possibly can. Dragging my windows to a correct size requires more effort than hitting a button. I'm more likely to drag over my desired size than I am to hit the wrong key.
3. Due to my activities on a computer I use the keyboard more than I use a mouse. Everytime I have to reach my mouse it requires effort and time, if I can eliminate the need for a mouse while doing window activities it will eliminate the extra effort and time.
4. Having a lazy nature means I will stock floating windows on each other, cluttering my space overlaying my other windows. Tiling forces me out of this bad habit, everything that's open on my workspace will be visible, I won't have search through my stacked and overlayed windows to see what's underneath.
It's pretty simple for me, I prefer the keyboard over the mouse, I want to use as much of my pixels as I can and I'm lazy.
If you're a hardcore mouse user, you can achieve the same by using snapping borders I suppose, although it'd still require more effort than an automatic tiling window manager.
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Please don't feed the troll...
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