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syscrash2k

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Registered: 2005-05-07

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Minimalistic Pager: minipager!

Hi,
NEW: Xlib version; fully configurable

I'm working on a pager called minipager.

A minipager PKGBUILD is in AUR.

You can also get it from svn:

$ svn checkout http://syscrash.hopto.org/svn/repos/minipager/branches/minipager-xlib
$ cd minipager-xlib
$ make
$ ./minipager

It's now completely configurable (colours, position, etc); run it with --help or -h (not sure if both work tho lol).

The only dependency is Xlib (which everyone running X has.)
It comes with some sample profiles in the profiles/ dir. If you want minipager to use them, put them in ~/.config/minipager/, then run minipager -p profilename.

Opinions?

i3839

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Re: Minimalistic Pager: minipager!

Something flashes in the right bottom corner, it prints out its stuff in main, and then it's gone: Segmentation fault.

gdb output:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xb76d77a3 in XRenderFindDisplay () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1
(gdb) bt
#0  0xb76d77a3 in XRenderFindDisplay () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1
#1  0xb76d7b6d in XRenderQueryExtension () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1
#2  0xb79a7c5a in _gdk_x11_have_render () from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
#3  0xb79a9459 in gdk_x11_draw_pixbuf () from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
#4  0xb7983321 in gdk_draw_pixbuf () from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
#5  0xb798dd31 in gdk_pixmap_draw_pixbuf () from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
#6  0xb7983321 in gdk_draw_pixbuf () from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
#7  0xb7999dc5 in gdk_window_draw_pixbuf () from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
#8  0xb7983321 in gdk_draw_pixbuf () from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
#9  0xb7d04cd1 in gtk_image_expose () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#10 0xb7d26b8e in _gtk_marshal_BOOLEAN__BOXED ()
   from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#11 0xb793e5a9 in g_type_class_meta_marshal ()
   from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#12 0xb793e2ab in g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#13 0xb7952f2b in signal_emit_unlocked_R () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#14 0xbfbfffe0 in ?? ()
#15 0x00000002 in ?? ()
#16 0xbfc00130 in ?? ()
#17 0xbfc00008 in ?? ()
#18 0x00000000 in ?? ()
#19 0x00000014 in ?? ()
#20 0x00000014 in ?? ()
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
#21 0x08087198 in ?? ()
#22 0xb7a4ffe1 in _int_malloc () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
Previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?)

Not that I mourn its death much, I prefer keybinds to switch desktops anyway. ;-)

syscrash2k

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Registered: 2005-05-07

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Re: Minimalistic Pager: minipager!

Odd, could you please try an svn update, make debug, and backtrace again?

Thanks.

i3839

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Registered: 2004-02-04

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Re: Minimalistic Pager: minipager!

Same stuff. But what looks very wrong is your messup of types and type checking avoidance. For instance, get_number_desktops() looks totally wrong:

It returns unsigned long instead of a pointer, for one thing, but what you return is a pointer to gchar which you got from get_property. Of course you cast it to unsigned long*, to make it all worse.

Tip: rewrite the whole thing using zero casts, and I bet it will work then.

What I get here is revision 165 btw, so perhaps you forgot to commit something and I've a buggy old version.

syscrash2k

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Re: Minimalistic Pager: minipager!

I've changed a lot of stuff, mainly removed odd looking gchar returns and stuff like that.
Could you please give it a try? Thanks for the help

i3839

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Re: Minimalistic Pager: minipager!

It sort of works now, though it tries to change the desktop even when it is the current one, better to check for that I think.

markw

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Re: Minimalistic Pager: minipager!

I just compiled and installed it and it works really well on my box. One thing I noticed is that it puts the binary in /usr/local/bin which is not in /etc/profile by default, so you have to edit /etc/profile manually. Maybe you could put it in /usr/bin? Anyway, nice work! I really like it! I may come up with a few "themes"...

*Goes off and puts "minipager &" in .xinitrc

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phrakture

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Re: Minimalistic Pager: minipager!

One thing I noticed is that it puts the binary in /usr/local/bin which is not in /etc/profile by default, so you have to edit /etc/profile manually. Maybe you could put it in /usr/bin?

try configure --prefix=/usr
if you compiled from source - should do it 99% of the time.

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syscrash2k

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Re: Minimalistic Pager: minipager!

One thing I noticed is that it puts the binary in /usr/local/bin which is not in /etc/profile by default, so you have to edit /etc/profile manually. Maybe you could put it in /usr/bin?

try configure --prefix=/usr
if you compiled from source - should do it 99% of the time.

It doesn't use autoconf/automake/etc yet, just a simple Makefile

I am planning to rewrite it using Xlib instead of gtk (would be much more efficient for such a simple program, uses about 11mb ram right now.)

phrakture

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Re: Minimalistic Pager: minipager!

try configure --prefix=/usr
if you compiled from source - should do it 99% of the time.

It doesn't use autoconf/automake/etc yet, just a simple Makefile

Ah, I was just guessing... it probably wouldn't be that hard to sed it either...

syscrash2k: maybe you could provide an Arch PKGBUILD along with your package, just to make things easier for others

markw

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Re: Minimalistic Pager: minipager!

Would it be hard to add support for semi-transparency in the png files? That would be really cool.

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syscrash2k

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Re: Minimalistic Pager: minipager!

Xlib version is done!

$ svn checkout http://syscrash.hopto.org/svn/repos/minipager
$ cd minipager
$ make 
$ ./minipager

It has some bugs, I'll see if I can get semi-transparency on it.
A PKGBUILD shouldn't be too hard to do either, I'll take a look at that.

syscrash2k

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Re: Minimalistic Pager: minipager!

I've edited the first post with more up-to-date instructions
I will make PKGBUILDs for yatesParse and minipager soon.

edit:
Packages for yatesparse and minipager now in AUR!

syscrash2k

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Re: Minimalistic Pager: minipager!

A lot of changes have been made.

Minipager no longer depends on yatesParse.
It is also much more responsive due to the use of a real event loop instead of polling for events

More info in first post.