Chef presents 'Sir Scrotalot' a scrotactacular.

[ChefIronBelly]

^^ Its really the only two children of the big 3 BSD that is worthy of mention IMO. There both specific like Fugulta live cd/usb w/persistence. The other is called mfsbsd a child of Free that is a minimal live and loads into ram.

^ yeah finding #tint works better on certain type of wallpapers. I think a new scripts is in order and take a closer look into the other hset options.

[dkeg]

sounds like a plan. I have a .bg file that contains all I need. Makes for easier switching. In .xinitrc I source .bg and have $wallp instead of the specific wall. Here's the 'script'. Its basic. I mainly only change the wall itself. At some point I may add some conditionals, but it works fine for me. Plus my .xinitrc is cleaner now.

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#!/bin/sh
#source from .xinitrc
. $HOME/bin/colr

## select a wall
#pic="soundboard.png"
#pic="petal.jpeg"
#pic="provrb.jpg"
#pic="abstractstripes.jpg"
#pic="diner.jpeg"
pic="chucks.jpeg"
#pic="carbon.png"
#pic="wheat.jpg"
#pic="leafscene.jpg"
#pic="wall.png"
#pic="relax.jpg"
#pic="raiin.jpg"
#pic="blades.jpg"
#pic="parkd.jpg"
#pic="glasses.jpg"
#pic="comfort.jpg"
#pic="urban.png"
#pic="paints.jpg"
#pic="wheatfield.jpg"
#pic="softer.jpg"

## set options
act="hsetroot"
opt="-cover"     
blur="-blur 20"
c="-contrast .65"
b="-brightness -.02"
t="-tint "#"$wht"

## set path
path=/data/walls/
wall=$path$pic

## display
wallp="$act $opt $wall $c $t"
#wallp="$act $opt $wall $c $b $blur"
#wallp="$act $opt $wall $c $b"

[ChefIronBelly]

I like it.

[simgin]

Mfsbsd, thanks Chef. Never heard of it, will check it out this weekend.

Cheerio
Simon

[Theo]

Everytime when I see the scrots of the Chef and Dkeg, I fell so small.. and have to try harder :P

[ChefIronBelly]

Thats funny :) dkeg is the master I am a 3 color trick pony.

I do thank you Theo for the compliment.

[ChefIronBelly]

My Vanilla Sid all wrapped up in a blue sauce.
(Last one with this wally I promise)

swm w/ wmutils
lemonbar
xterm
zenblue
terminus & siji fonts
sxhkd

[dkeg]

curious how you configure swm with wmutils. I tend to have issues with focus. I change focus, begin moving the window, focus returns back to original window. I have to click to set focus. I can follow focus to scroll within a window, but not to actually set the focus. Does that even remotely make sense.

[ChefIronBelly]

Makes sense I am not seeing anything like that. For keyboard typical for me is to alt_tab for focus and place them with middles.sh, fifty.sh for fullscreen.sh. The only time I may use the mouse is when I am surfing but not even sure about that.

I have defaults in swm config.h

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/* resize and move by mouse? */
#define ENABLE_MOUSE
/* sloppy focus? */
#define ENABLE_SLOPPY

and in .xinitrc

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wew | focus_watcher.sh &
exec swm

I think that is stock focus_watcher.sh. not sure if I ever tweaked on focus. thb dont remember that relationship, I havent changed in months the same scripts I ran on my NetBSD setup.

edit: the only issue I ever have with focus is on startup when I open first terminal. I am telling it to go to center and sometimes it does and sometimes upper left.

[dkeg]

thanks, I have the same setup. oh well. no matter

[ChefIronBelly]

the only other thing I can think of is a conflict with mod keys.
default swm config.h

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#define MOD		SUPER		/* modifier for mouse resize and move */

and in sxhkd

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# mod4 = super key / window key

Just a thought.

[dkeg]

That may be it. I was actually considering that option earlier. I changed it to ALT in config.h, still same issue, but then the magic happened and it began to work. I logged out and back for some other reason, magic was gone. For now, I don't feel like troubleshooting. I'll probably make a separate .sxhkd specifically for swm, and slowly begin to build on it.

[franksinistra]

It may have something to do with multiple little utility setting the focus border color ( like vroum, or yawee if you use any of them ) conflicting with swm border config.... :)

CMIIW

EDIT: Lol i misunderstood the context, hmmm i think it was what Chef previously said. Iirc set/unset the sloppy focus on swm config, set sxhkdrc focus to alt instead of super and it's done. At least in my last setup.

[ChefIronBelly]

Really I think this is the last time you will see this wallpaper.

Wanted to give Arch another spin since its been so long. I take back anything negative I may have said about this distro it is really fine. Its a base install with my defaults.

Edit had to fix ip addy everyone doing it different.

[Theo]

Wanted to give Arch another spin since its been so long. I take back anything negative I may have said about this distro it is really fine. Its a base install with my defaults.

moneyshot.png

The thing that bothers me the most about Arch, it's not the distro... but the fanboys.
For those who are using Arch seriously these words are not for you...
But a certain group is fucked up, knows (almost) nothing and had the feeling they are superiour.. in that case I advise them to there mommy while configuring gentoo.
Ubuntu/Mint/OpenSuse has the label for beeing Linux for beginners, Arch has the label for smartasses and wannabees... mostly the last ones, and that's a pity..
Dumbass as I am, I could installed Arch too, but doesn't make me any smarter than a debian pro.. I don't think so, but a large amount of arch users are thinking that way...

[ChefIronBelly]

I certainly do know what you mean but lets not throw them ALL under the bus. There is plenty of good humble experts and developers making it happen over there.

[pidsley]

There are fanboys and jerks everywhere. Some Gentoo users think they are superior because they build from source. The people on the Arch forum are knowlegeable and helpful -- they just have a very low tolerance for stupid. Much like here.

But we are off-topic and heading for the dumpster.

[ivanovnegro]

But we are off-topic and heading for the dumpster.

That.

I already wanted to intervene but we just stop here.

No distro bashing in this forum! It is one of the rules no matter what.

[ChefIronBelly]

^ Nothing but love here :)

I wanted to do a source install and after going back and forth between LFS, Gentoo or Sabotage I decided on Gentoo. I have done LFS a couple times in the last 10 years and maybe Gentoo 4 times over that time.

I went with a stage 3 mostly generic install and for now just a console with tmux, alsa, mpg123, mc, links, fbterm, fbgrab. I will eventually add x and the rest but with the nice weather coming this weekend it wont be in the next few days.

(scrot or it didnt happen)

[wuxmedia]

^ all that font work on the forum and you use elinks! :)
nothing sweeter than a nox with audio, irc and tmux