Scrotwm / Spectrwm

sparchy · 2010-01-31 23:56:30

Kitty wrote:

{kitty|~}$ scrotwm -v
Welcome to scrotwm V0.9.22 cvs tag: $scrotwm: scrotwm.c,v 1.281 2010/01/13 23:22:31 dwc Exp $ scrotwm: other wm running
It builds from cvs and the remember where launched seems to work.
Ed: and for the all the hassle over profont, the pkg doesn't install the /etc/scrotwm.conf file.

I haven't used scrotwm recently but that's the way the programmer marco_p intended it to behave. That is good news and it is a really nice feature, thanks. I think I'll wait for the non-cvs version.
Is scrotwm 0.9.22-4 the one with the 'remember where launched' is back in?

Aedit · 2010-02-01 00:24:55

No need to wait -- it's back in both AUR versions (cvs and 0.9.22-4).

zowki · 2010-02-01 04:40:17

Is there a floating window layout like Awesome WM? If so how can I enable it?

keegan · 2010-02-01 05:21:02

Aedit wrote:

Looking forward to seeing your screenshots!

http://i.imgur.com/SPOq8.png
This is on my netbook using your colors patch for the status bar. Here's the script I hobbled together:

#!/bin/sh
QUAL=`iwconfig wlan0|awk '/Link/ {print $2}'|sed s/Quality=//|sed s_/100__`;
SSID=`iwconfig wlan0|awk '/ESSID:/ {print $4}'|sed s/ESSID://|sed 's_"__'|sed 's_"__'`;

STATEFILE='/proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state' # battery's state file
INFOFILE='/proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/info'   # battery's info file
BAT_FULL=`cat $INFOFILE|grep design|line|cut -d " " -f 11`;
STATUS=`cat $STATEFILE|grep charging|cut -d " " -f 12`;
RCAP=`cat $STATEFILE|grep remaining|cut -d " " -f 8`;
RPERCT=`expr $RCAP \* 100`;
RPERC=`expr $RPERCT / $BAT_FULL`;

DISK=`df -h|awk '/sda2/ {print $5}'|sed s_%__`;
MEMTOT=`free -t|awk '/Total/ {print $2}'`;
MEMFREE=`free -t|awk '/Total/ {print $3}'`;
MEMPERC=`echo "$MEMFREE / $MEMTOT"|bc -l|sed s_.__|head -c 2`

if [ $QUAL -lt 10 ] ; then
QUALCOLOR=`echo "^fg(red)"`
QUALBAR=`echo "^fg(white)[^fg(red)=----^fg(white)]"`
elif [ $QUAL -lt 30 ] ; then
QUALCOLOR=`echo "^fg(orange)"`
QUALBAR=`echo "^fg(white)[^fg(orange)==---^fg(white)]"`
elif [ $QUAL -lt 50 ] ; then
QUALCOLOR=`echo "^fg(yellow)"`
QUALBAR=`echo "^fg(white)[^fg(yellow)===--^fg(white)]"`
elif [ $QUAL -lt 60 ] ; then
QUALCOLOR=`echo "^fg(blue)"`
QUALBAR=`echo "^fg(white)[^fg(blue)====-^fg(white)]"`
else
QUALCOLOR=`echo "^fg(green)"`
QUALBAR=`echo "^fg(white)[^fg(green)=====^fg(white)]"`
fi

if [ $RPERC -lt 10 ] ; then
BATCOLOR=`echo "^fg(red)"`
BATBAR=`echo "^fg(white)[^fg(red)=----^fg(white)]"`
elif [ $RPERC -lt 30 ] ; then
BATCOLOR=`echo "^fg(orange)"`
BATBAR=`echo "^fg(white)[^fg(orange)==---^fg(white)]"`
elif [ $RPERC -lt 50 ] ; then
BATCOLOR=`echo "^fg(yellow)"`
BATBAR=`echo "^fg(white)[^fg(yellow)===--^fg(white)]"`
elif [ $RPERC -lt 60 ] ; then
BATCOLOR=`echo "^fg(blue)"`
BATBAR=`echo "^fg(white)[^fg(blue)====-^fg(white)]"`
else
BATCOLOR=`echo "^fg(green)"`
BATBAR=`echo "^fg(white)[^fg(green)=====^fg(white)]"`
fi

if [ $MEMPERC -lt 10 ] ; then
MEMCOLOR=`echo "^fg(red)"`
elif [ $MEMPERC -lt 30 ] ; then
MEMCOLOR=`echo "^fg(orange)"`
elif [ $MEMPERC -lt 50 ] ; then
MEMCOLOR=`echo "^fg(yellow)"`
elif [ $MEMPERC -lt 60 ] ; then
MEMCOLOR=`echo "^fg(blue)"`
else
MEMCOLOR=`echo "^fg(green)"`
fi

if [ $DISK -lt 10 ] ; then
DISKCOLOR=`echo "^fg(green)"`
elif [ $DISK -lt 30 ] ; then
DISKCOLOR=`echo "^fg(blue)"`
elif [ $DISK -lt 50 ] ; then
DISKCOLOR=`echo "^fg(yellow)"`
elif [ $DISK -lt 60 ] ; then
DISKCOLOR=`echo "^fg(orange)"`
else
DISKCOLOR=`echo "^fg(red)"`
fi

if [ $STATUS = "charging" ] ; then
STATUS2="A/C"
else
STATUS2="BAT"
fi

echo "                                       ^fg(white) $SSID $QUALBAR $QUALCOLOR$QUAL%^fg(white) $STATUS2: $BATBAR $BATCOLOR$RPERC%^fg(white) DISK: [$DISKCOLOR$DISK%^fg(white)] MEM: [$MEMCOLOR$MEMPERC%^fg(white)]"

It's not pretty, but it works
(tomato is my wifi ap btw)

zowki wrote:

Is there a floating window layout like Awesome WM? If so how can I enable it?

MOD+t to enable it for the selected window. See the quirks section of the config file to have it always enabled for certian windows.

Last edited by keegan (2010-02-01 05:25:31)

keenerd · 2010-02-01 05:22:16

There is no floating mode. You can float a window with Mod+t. For programs you always want floated, enable the relevant quirks in the conf file.

Floating multiple windows in the same workspace can get a little awkward. It is not recommended, yet.

Do you mind sharing why you'd want so much floating?

edit: sniped by Keegan! By the way, where did you workspace indicator go?

Last edited by keenerd (2010-02-01 05:26:03)

keegan · 2010-02-01 05:28:02

keenerd wrote:

edit: sniped by Keegan! By the way, where did you workspace indicator go?

bar_border[1]        = black
bar_color[1]        = black
bar_font_color[1]    = black

edit: It'd actually be real handy if that information was accessable to a script, but I don't know C++ so I don't have any idea how to go about it.

Last edited by keegan (2010-02-01 05:58:51)

Aedit · 2010-02-01 11:26:58

@zowki: if you are floating windows do check out message #170 above.

@keegan: lucky it's in C then ;-). Various ways of communicating with apps in both directions have been tried by different wms. I just added the feature I most wanted (color) to the built-in bar rather than changing the approach.

Nice screenshot. Btw, some lines in your script can be simpler, like this:

MEMCOLOR="^fg(blue)"

zowki · 2010-02-03 08:34:10

keenerd wrote:

There is no floating mode. You can float a window with Mod+t. For programs you always want floated, enable the relevant quirks in the conf file.
Floating multiple windows in the same workspace can get a little awkward. It is not recommended, yet.
Do you mind sharing why you'd want so much floating?
edit: sniped by Keegan! By the way, where did you workspace indicator go?

The reason I want so much floating is because the only thing that I want tiled is my terminal (urxvt). For all other windows I prefer it to float.

Last edited by zowki (2010-02-03 08:35:10)

virus_found · 2010-02-03 12:04:42

zowki wrote:

keenerd wrote:
There is no floating mode. You can float a window with Mod+t. For programs you always want floated, enable the relevant quirks in the conf file.
Floating multiple windows in the same workspace can get a little awkward. It is not recommended, yet.
Do you mind sharing why you'd want so much floating?
edit: sniped by Keegan! By the way, where did you workspace indicator go?
The reason I want so much floating is because the only thing that I want tiled is my terminal (urxvt). For all other windows I prefer it to float.

Wouldn't it be better and simplier to use openbox/fluxbox?

Intrepid · 2010-02-03 23:49:20

@zowki: Indeed, you should use openbox and make use of the "growtoedge" and "nudge" functions, look it up in the openbox wiki. Much nicer to "tile" just a few windows and have the rest float.

skanky · 2010-02-12 22:18:11

Is anyone using scrotwm with multiple monitors and xrandr?
I've got it working - using xrandr commandsin my .xinitrc file, but am having some odd behaviour.

I didn't have an xorg.conf file before I tried to do this but created one with just the screen section to set-up a virtual screen 2048x768. I have a eeePc 901 LVDS1 at 1024x600 and an external monitor VGA1 at 1024x768.
xrandr commands put the VGA1 to the right of the LVDS1.

I have the default key bindings in scrotwm - though I think I may not fully understand the multiple display/screen ones.

Now, when I switch between workspaces without any windows open, it seems to step through them as expected, but if I say have a window open at 2:5 and step through, sometimes it jumps 1:3 (say) or another window will jump from 1:2 to 2:1 or something. I'm not sure exactly what the behaviour is - I haven't found a pattern yet.

So, do I have configuration problem, a understanding problem or is there an issue with scrotwm & xrandr? I'm on the latest version of everything (at last check).

Aedit · 2010-02-13 11:25:40

I saw problems with multiple monitors (non-xrandr though) which I reported in message #159. Does that patch help? None of the patches I posted has been applied.

The way it _should_ work is that initially you should have 1:1 and 2:2. After that if you have 1:x, 2:y and you press Mod+n (n!=x) in region 1, then there are two possibilities:

(n!=y) : 1:x, 2:y --> 1:n, 2:y (displays the hidden workspace n)
(n==y) : 1:x, 2:y --> 1:y, 2:x (swaps workspaces)

skanky · 2010-02-13 20:52:24

Aedit wrote:

I saw problems with multiple monitors (non-xrandr though) which I reported in message #159. Does that patch help? None of the patches I posted has been applied.
The way it _should_ work is that initially you should have 1:1 and 2:2. After that if you have 1:x, 2:y and you press Mod+n (n!=x) in region 1, then there are two possibilities:
(n!=y) : 1:x, 2:y --> 1:n, 2:y (displays the hidden workspace n)
(n==y) : 1:x, 2:y --> 1:y, 2:x (swaps workspaces)

Okay, many thanks for the answer. Doing another test with just two windows open that seemed to be the behaviour. I think I understand how it works now - had some misconception before. It was complicated before by the fact that I had many windows open. I'll try a slightly more rigourous test when I get use of the monitor back (it's shared), but so far it looks to be user error.

pshr · 2010-02-14 23:25:09

Just want to say tanks for a great wm Loving the sane defaults and the clean code.
For some reason i cant get conky to play nice tho...no idea why..not realy important tbh

keegan · 2010-02-27 15:19:43

I've tried most of the killsignals, but I may have missed one. Does anyone know of a way to cause scrotwm to restart the way it does with mod+q? I need to be able to do this from a script.

skanky · 2010-02-27 22:40:50

skanky wrote:

Aedit wrote:
I saw problems with multiple monitors (non-xrandr though) which I reported in message #159. Does that patch help? None of the patches I posted has been applied.
The way it _should_ work is that initially you should have 1:1 and 2:2. After that if you have 1:x, 2:y and you press Mod+n (n!=x) in region 1, then there are two possibilities:
(n!=y) : 1:x, 2:y --> 1:n, 2:y (displays the hidden workspace n)
(n==y) : 1:x, 2:y --> 1:y, 2:x (swaps workspaces)
Okay, many thanks for the answer. Doing another test with just two windows open that seemed to be the behaviour. I think I understand how it works now - had some misconception before. It was complicated before by the fact that I had many windows open. I'll try a slightly more rigourous test when I get use of the monitor back (it's shared), but so far it looks to be user error.

Okay, finally managed to get to test this and it seems to be working as expected.
Mea culpa.

JohnWittle · 2010-03-06 01:44:52

I'm having some issues with switching between workspaces (I think? the first number is region, second number is workspace, correct?).

At any given time, using MOD+left and MOD+right, I am only able to switch between the last three accessed workspaces. For me, 1 is my browser, 2 is irssi/pidgin, 3 has a bunch of terminals doing various batch tasks, and 4 is ncmpcpp. If I press MOD+right three times, it goes browser, irssi, ncmpcpp. If I press MOD+3, it stays on whatever workstation it was just on (although the number at the top left changes) until I switch to a different workstation and then back to workstation 3.

Actually, I just took a video of this happening and to be quite honest, I have no idea what is going on but it clearly isn't working properly.

Here is the video: http://treefire.wetfish.net/scrotwmbug.ogv

The first couple times cycling through (where it skips every fourth desktop) I am using MOD+1, MOD+2, MOD+3, and MOD+4, cycling through. When it starts only showing 2, 3, 4, I am repeatedly pressing MOD+right (it skips workstation 1 until I press MOD+1, then select a different workstation, then press MOD+1 again)

I have reinstalled scrotwm and all related packages and this bug persists; i'm surprised it affects no one else

Any ideas?

edit: okay, my graphics card apparently won't record video fast enough for it to work. Still, the video at least shows that something is wrong.

Last edited by JohnWittle (2010-03-06 01:53:19)

JohnWittle · 2010-03-07 02:48:50

Eh. Temporary and good enough solution occurred to me when I realised that I could only "correctly" select [Number of Workspaces - 1] workspaces, so I just made a fifth workspace, put an xterm in it, and leave it there. I'm never able to select it without the regular hassle but I can always get to my primary four now.

keenerd · 2010-03-07 03:49:45

Can you share a few more details? Which version of ScrotWM are you using? (0.9.22-4 or CVS?) What terminal are you using?

I've never seen this happen, but I would like to figure it out.

JohnWittle · 2010-03-08 17:20:05

I am using 0.9.22-4. My previous good-enough fix stopped working; it now appears to randomly select one workspace that I can't access until I switch to a workspace not adjacent to that workspace-- eh, all the theories i've come up with are ludicrous and probably not true. I'll do some tests and get back to you.

Also, I'm using terminator but that can't matter, can it?

skanky · 2010-03-23 20:35:14

Is there a good or easy (as in when I update) way to remove the LD_PRELOAD setting for scrotwm? I'm not bothered about the feature it fixes, and it's messing with my libetc setting.

I've had a bit of a read about the LD_PRELOAD in the earlier posts, but am missing something, I think.

keenerd · 2010-03-24 02:30:09

skany, Add this line back into the PKGBUILD, with the other seds:

sed -i 's|setenv(\"LD_PRELOAD\", SWM_LIB, 1);|//setenv(\"LD_PRELOAD\", SWM_LIB, 1);' scrotwm.c

skanky · 2010-03-24 10:05:16

Okay, thanks. I'll try that.

n0dix · 2010-04-19 17:00:40

I tried Scrotwm for only 3 days, and i have to say WOW, i really like it. Is so simple and functional.

I want to know if is possible to have the split layout like Awesome. Not like |= (default by Scrotwm) but or other.

keenerd · 2010-04-19 19:24:15

What do you mean by "split layout"? Have a screen shot?

ScrotWM has three layouts. Vertical, horizontal and maximized. (Cycle these three with Mod space.) Vert/horz have a primary side and a secondary side. By default, the primary half contains one window and the secondary half contains one row/column of the remaining windows. Both of these defaults can be changed.

Use Mod comma and Mod period to change the number of windows in the primary half.

Use Mod < and Mod > to change the number of rows in the secondary half of the screen.

Last edited by keenerd (2010-04-19 19:26:18)

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