bs - button shell

[pidsley]

Mentioned in the documentation for miwm, bs (for "button shell") is 134 lines of C (written in 1992) that can create simple panels consisting of labels and buttons.

http://lhf.impa.br/bs/

[Dr_Chroot]

Fantastic; this is actually quite handy! Thanks, pids :D

[machinebacon]

xdialogs on dope :) I have just seen it before (miwm) and thought: 1980's yad :)

[pidsley]

^ exactly. It shows how simple a dialog-creation program can be.

[machinebacon]

We should revive it in future implementations. I'd like to have it as easily customizable pop-up, for example for shutdown/reboot/suspend.

[GekkoP]

Look at that. Yes, a good one.

[stark]

Something more to hack on :D Thanks for the share pidsley :)

Delusional thoughts from the mind of a uber-noob:

I'm wondering if I can pipe stuff into it like current song from mpc and maybe a neat notification system ( like osd_cat ? )

[machinebacon]

If mpc has the output, yes. mpg123 does. You pipe into a tmp file first and read the last line of it. It should work. Try it, if you get stuck call us :)

[stark]

^ Thanks, I will :)

/Offtopic ( sorry pidsley ):

I couldn't keep mpg123 and mpg321 in one place as mpg321's binary is named mpg123 so both of them are conflicting.Is it even possible to keep'em together ?

[machinebacon]

At least in Debian 321 does not replace 123. No idea why there's a naming conflict. You might try to rename the binary (making a renamed copy). Built from source? Then check the Makefile. If you want to discuss this issue, we better split it off.

[stark]

Apologies for the late reply. I haven't tried it in debian but no need to open another topic for this, i'll send you a pm when i can't get around this. Thank you :)

[machinebacon]

No PMs for support, thank you :)

[stark]

^ Noted :)

[machinebacon]

^ simple reason: a problem with solution might be interesting for others, so rather share a "i tried this and got this working and that not" than having a solution (or a problem) and keeping it for yourself. ;) KISS the FOSS of the GNU, you know :D

[stark]

No problem :) Very few people gladly suggest opening threads for someone's minor problem so gotta get used to this ;) And the problem is happening on arch ( pkgbuild from aur ) so i don't know if its relevant enough :)