The Official *nix thread.

chubby bunny · 04-21-2009, 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by boomslang

Typical, haha.

What have you been using to snag your mail again? Mutt?

CyanidePoison · 04-21-2009, 08:47 PM

So I completely removed the status bar from dwm for fun.

I like it.

boomslang · 04-21-2009, 10:29 PM

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Originally Posted by chubby bunny

What have you been using to snag your mail again? Mutt?

I use pine - mutt isn't provided on the cluster that handles our mail. I don't pull mail off the server, otherwise I'd probably use mutt. It's a lot easier to keep everything in one place so I just suffer through pine.

CyanidePoison · 04-22-2009, 08:36 PM

uzbl

This could end up being pretty cool.

cameron122000 · 04-22-2009, 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by CyanidePoison

uzbl

This could end up being pretty cool.

Little bit too minimal for my liking. I'd imagine it would hardly use any system resources though, which could be nice for slower computers.

CyanidePoison · 04-22-2009, 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by cameron122000

Little bit too minimal for my liking. I'd imagine it would hardly use any system resources though, which could be nice for slower computers.

The whole point is that it follows Unix philosophy.

I'm gonna contribute a patch or two to this to add some of the functionality in the readme.

durrell · 04-22-2009, 11:15 PM

I'm beginning to think some people believe that "Unix philosophy" is "make your computer as hard to use as possible".

WTF is wrong with tabbed browsing? Multiple windows makes way less sense than tabs.

CyanidePoison · 04-22-2009, 11:27 PM

I can't speak for anyone else, but I am a hell of a lot more productive with dwm and a terminal than I ever was with GNOME and all the other stuff that it comes with.

Oh, and the part about not integrating tabbed browsing is just to add flexibility so people can arrange the windows in any way they want. For me, I'd probably just add a bunch of dwm tags (I think that's what they call them) and dedicate each window to a tag using the stacked layout so I could have a small terminal along the bottom of the screen to do stuff.

durrell · 04-22-2009, 11:41 PM

That makes sense.

And I agree about the Terminal statement, although I'm not minimalist enough for dwm. Openbox is excellent, for me.

Thanks for the clarification.

boomslang · 04-22-2009, 11:45 PM

I like switching dwm tags with alt-F# and firefox tabs with alt-#. It's really fast and easy to switch between tabs/apps like this. The same functionality could be duplicated with tabs-less browsing and dwm, but you wouldn't get an idea of what page corresponds to what tab without a tab bar. I think that if it were to get anywhere, there'd have to be some sort of front end, or fork, or something like that. Also, adblock and noscript stuff, vim keybindings, and I'm sold. Mostly.

boomslang · 04-23-2009, 08:18 AM

chubby bunny · 04-23-2009, 10:14 AM

boomslang · 04-23-2009, 10:47 AM

Dag, you got me beat - upping at ~800kB/s. I kind of wish I hadn't taken lug.bu.edu offline. Oh wellz.

chubby bunny · 04-23-2009, 12:00 PM

Rawr! Why'd you take it down?

durrell · 04-23-2009, 12:05 PM

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Originally Posted by chubby bunny

Rawr! Why'd you take it down?

Dot. Was going to ask the same.

boomslang · 04-23-2009, 02:21 PM

It was running the "BU Linux" distro which reboots itself without interaction whenever there's a critical kernel update or something like that. For whatever reason it wasn't coming online, due to power failure (though it was plugged into a UPS) or **** distro or something and because it's in a locked closet, it's hard to get to. I just said "to hell with it" and took it down - it's in my dorm now. Trying to replace it with a better machine anyway.

chubby bunny · 04-23-2009, 11:02 PM

Ahhh gotcha.

Welp. I'm done for the day.

CyanidePoison · 04-24-2009, 06:32 AM

Those are some nice pipes ya got there.

boomslang · 04-24-2009, 09:15 AM

ballaballa

chubby bunny · 04-24-2009, 10:27 AM

the beach? Its that way.

Boom: nou balla balla

12345421 · 04-24-2009, 01:46 PM

Ok, I have Ubuntu problems. I want to install wxPython, but I need GTK+ and GLIB first. I went to the Package Manager and they only have the older versions. So I went to the website and downloaded both GTK+ 2.16.1 and GLIB 2.20.1. I extracted both on my desktop and then went to the terminal and did

Code:

% cd /home/ian/Desktop/gtk+-2.16.1
% ./configure

After I do ./configure it tells me that first I need glib-2.0, atk, pango, and cairo. So I decide to try glib.

Code:

% cd /home/ian/Desktop/glib-2.20.1
% ./configure

I get a big list of checking for <w/e> and they all say yes, then the last one is "checking for msgfmt... no" So then that ****s everything up and below that it says, "***You must have either have gettext in your C library, or use the GNU gettext library. (http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/gettext.html)"

So I go and download this gettext thing and do

Code:

% cd /home/ian/Desktop/gettext-0.17
% ./configure
make

So this runs and then I get

Code:

    inlined from 'msgdomain_list_print' at write-catalog.c:223:
/usr/include/bits/fcntl2.h:51: error: call to '__open_missing_mode' declared with attribute error: open with O_CREAT in second argument needs 3 arguments
make[4]: *** [write-catalog.lo] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/ian/Desktop/gettext-0.17/gettext-tools/src'
make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/ian/Desktop/gettext-0.17/gettext-tools/src'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ian/Desktop/gettext-0.17/gettext-tools'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ian/Desktop/gettext-0.17/gettext-tools'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

FML. Can someone please help me. I can never seem to get anything to work in Linux. Running 9.04 btw.