[SOLVED]Few questions about DWM

Draucia · 2011-07-05 12:59:05

For reference: I had was having troubles getting URxvt to start from my config.h. Instead of putting it in there, I put it in my .Xdefaults (like background: #...... foreground: #......)
Second question was about dzen2. I was trying to make it appear on the bottom, and make a gap (so windows couldn't overlay/go under the bar. I just decided to overlay the dzen2 bar on the top-right like so:

EDIT: Thanks to sm00th I've solved my URxvt problems. The problem was that I couldn't put URxvt into config.h and get it working

EDIT: I've just decided to smudge all my time, cpu, temp, etc, things at the top right with dzen2 overlaying the default dwm status bar. Thanks anyway.

Last edited by Draucia (2011-07-05 22:11:02)

sm00th · 2011-07-05 13:05:14

Draucia wrote:

3.) How would I put this in termcmd:
urxvt -is +sb -fg '#51a366' -bg '#111111' -fn 'xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:pixelsize=11:antialias=false:autohinting=true'

This you can do in your ~/.Xdefaults file.
For example the font part will look like this:

URxvt*font: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:pixelsize=11:antialias=false:autohinting=true

Last edited by sm00th (2011-07-05 13:06:09)

Draucia · 2011-07-05 13:24:58

sm00th wrote:

Draucia wrote:
3.) How would I put this in termcmd:
urxvt -is +sb -fg '#51a366' -bg '#111111' -fn 'xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:pixelsize=11:antialias=false:autohinting=true'
This you can do in your ~/.Xdefaults file.
For example the font part will look like this:
URxvt*font: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:pixelsize=11:antialias=false:autohinting=true

Thanks. Do you know why my "ls" command is all one color? Like folders and files look the same.

Xdefault:

URxvt*background: #111111
URxvt*foreground: #51a366
URxvt*scrollBar: False
URxvt*font: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:pixelsize=11:antialias=false:autohinting=true

!! Greenish theme
*color0:       #000000
*color8:       #666666
!! DarkRed + Red
*color1:       #b45151
*color9:       #fe8686
!! DarkGreen + Green
*color2:       #8ba574
*color10:      #a5dca5
!! DarkYellow + Yellow
*color3:       Khaki3
*color11:      #efe58b
!! DarkBlue + Blue
*color4:       #2797d8
*color12:      #86cdea
!! DarkMangenta + Mangenta
*color5:       #aa6eaf
*color13:      #b698b8
!!DarkCyan + Cyan
*color6:       #418179
*color14:      #71bebe
!! LightGrey + White
*color7:       #bebebe
*color15:      #ffffff

sm00th · 2011-07-05 13:31:07

Draucia wrote:

Thanks. Do you know why my "ls" command is all one color? Like folders and files look the same.

That's probably not a terminal app issue at all.
Are colors still the same if you run it like this:

ls --color=auto

If that helps you can just add an alias to your .bashrc

alias ls='ls --color=auto'

Draucia · 2011-07-05 13:35:27

sm00th wrote:

Draucia wrote:
Thanks. Do you know why my "ls" command is all one color? Like folders and files look the same.
That's probably not a terminal app issue at all.
Are colors still the same if you run it like this:
ls --color=auto
If that helps you can just add an alias to your .bashrc
alias ls='ls --color=auto'

Thanks a lot. Now my URxvt problems/questions are solved.

Inxsible · 2011-07-05 13:48:34

Draucia, please don't erase questions from your original post if they are solved. They could make the thread confusing.

One · 2011-07-05 13:50:35

2) Are you referring to the current window border that is highlighted?
If so, edit selbordercolor in config.h, run `make` and `make install`, kill dwm and launch it again.

static const char selbordercolor[]  = "#424242";

Draucia · 2011-07-05 14:12:33

Inxsible wrote:

Draucia, please don't erase questions from your original post if they are solved. They could make the thread confusing.

Sorry, I put it at the end.

One wrote:

2) Are you referring to the current window border that is highlighted?
If so, edit selbordercolor in config.h, run `make` and `make install`, kill dwm and launch it again.
static const char selbordercolor[]  = "#424242";

I've already got that solved, thanks.

Now I'm having a bit of trouble with dzen2. How can I put it at the bottom? If I type "dzen -y 750" alone, it goes at the bottom, but this command in my xinitrc, doesn't:

(sleep 1s && conky | dzen2 -y '750' -x '367' -e '' -fg '#dcdcdc' -bg '#111111' -w '800' -ta r -fn '-*-terminus-*-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*' -h 20 ) &

I also need to somehow find a way to put space on the bottom.

Inxsible · 2011-07-05 14:39:02

Try it without the quotes around the x and y co-ordinates and remove the -e flag since you are not trying to catch any event.

(sleep 1s && conky | dzen2 -y 750 -x 367 -fg '#dcdcdc' -bg '#111111' -w '800' -ta r -fn '-*-terminus-*-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*' -h 20 ) &

Draucia · 2011-07-05 15:05:15

Inxsible wrote:

Try it without the quotes around the x and y co-ordinates and remove the -e flag since you are not trying to catch any event.
(sleep 1s && conky | dzen2 -y 750 -x 367 -fg '#dcdcdc' -bg '#111111' -w '800' -ta r -fn '-*-terminus-*-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*' -h 20 ) &

Thanks, but it's the same.

EDIT: This is really weird... removing -h 20 makes it go to the bottom, but there's a 2 pixel length from the bottom. If I add a -h in the front, it ignores the height. Raising 750 does nothing.

Last edited by Draucia (2011-07-05 15:17:30)

gotmor · 2011-07-05 17:52:53

Draucia wrote:

EDIT: This is really weird... removing -h 20 makes it go to the bottom, but there's a 2 pixel length from the bottom. If I add a -h in the front, it ignores the height. Raising 750 does nothing.

See: http://dzen.geekmode.org/dwiki/doku.php … een-bottom

To be a bit more explicit, when dzen2 detects that it won't fit at a specific screen border it will always align to top.
Be sure to use one of the ways depicted on the wiki page above, preferably the standard Xlib '-geometry' option.

Bye, Rob.

Last edited by gotmor (2011-07-05 18:12:22)

jasonwryan · 2011-07-05 18:37:05

Draucia: please edit your original post and replace your questions. Otherwise this thread is useless.

Forum Etiquette wrote:

Posting the equivalent of 'Nevermind, I fixed it.' in your thread or deleting your own posts for similar reasons is not only selfish and useless to the community, but a complete waste of resources and everyone's time.

Draucia · 2011-07-05 22:11:16

jasonwryan wrote:

Draucia: please edit your original post and replace your questions. Otherwise this thread is useless.
Forum Etiquette wrote:
Posting the equivalent of 'Nevermind, I fixed it.' in your thread or deleting your own posts for similar reasons is not only selfish and useless to the community, but a complete waste of resources and everyone's time.

I updated it, sorry.

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