[solved] [dwm] wrong encoding

Question

Hi,
I have a few questions related to dwm:
1.
The titlebar of dwm gives me problems with umlauts (öäü). Its a fresh 2009.08-installation with dwm (5.6.1) as windowmanager.  Instead of umlauts funny symbols and letters are shown. I have the same problem with elinks, but I dont know if that is related.
2.
Is there a possibility to add the pertag-patch in 5.6.1? As far as I understand the patches are versionspecific and therefore I would have to wait for a 5.6.1 pertag-patch?
3.
Where do I have to put the programnames for autostarting programms in dwm? I want firefox, thunderbird, pcmanfm, geany a.s.o. to autostart everytime I invoke X and appear within their special tagspace, so I changed config.h accordingly.
It would be cool, if anybody could help me
Last edited by inknoir (2009-11-23 12:13:26)

Answer 1

1. You either have a font that doesn't have such characters, or you have the wrong encoding. I'm using the standard "fixed" font in its "7x14" variant with a UTF-8 encoding, and umlauts look fine.
2. Someone posted a current version of the pertag patch on the "dev" mailing list at suckless. I applied it. I'll post it as it applied for me, but I have other patches, so it might not apply cleanly for you, in which case, go search the mailing list archives.
--- a/dwm.c Sat Aug 01 20:15:03 2009 -0400
+++ b/dwm.c Sun Aug 02 17:26:12 2009 -0400
@@ -120,25 +120,6 @@
void (*arrange)(Monitor *);
} Layout;
-struct Monitor {
- float mfact;
- int num;
- int by; /* bar geometry */
- int mx, my, mw, mh; /* screen size */
- int wx, wy, ww, wh; /* window area */
- unsigned int seltags;
- unsigned int sellt;
- unsigned int tagset[2];
- Bool showbar;
- Bool topbar;
- Client *clients;
- Client *sel;
- Client *stack;
- Monitor *next;
- Window barwin;
- const Layout *lt[2];
typedef struct {
const char *class;
const char *instance;
@@ -270,6 +252,30 @@
/* configuration, allows nested code to access above variables */
#include "config.h"
+struct Monitor {
+ float mfact;
+ int num;
+ int by; /* bar geometry */
+ int mx, my, mw, mh; /* screen size */
+ int wx, wy, ww, wh; /* window area */
+ unsigned int seltags;
+ unsigned int sellt;
+ unsigned int tagset[2];
+ Bool showbar;
+ Bool topbar;
+ Client *clients;
+ Client *sel;
+ Client *stack;
+ Monitor *next;
+ Window barwin;
+ const Layout *lt[2];
+ int curtag;
+ int prevtag;
+ const Layout *lts[LENGTH(tags) + 1];
+ double mfacts[LENGTH(tags) + 1];
+ Bool showbars[LENGTH(tags) + 1];
+};
+
/* compile-time check if all tags fit into an unsigned int bit array. */
struct NumTags { char limitexceeded[LENGTH(tags) > 31 ? -1 : 1]; };
@@ -1401,7 +1446,7 @@
if(!arg || !arg->v || arg->v != selmon->lt[selmon->sellt])
selmon->sellt ^= 1;
if(arg && arg->v)
- selmon->lt[selmon->sellt] = (Layout *)arg->v;
+ selmon->lt[selmon->sellt] = selmon->lts[selmon->curtag] = (Layout *)arg->v;
if(selmon->sel)
arrange();
else
@@ -1418,7 +1463,7 @@
f = arg->f < 1.0 ? arg->f + selmon->mfact : arg->f - 1.0;
if(f < 0.1 || f > 0.9)
return;
- selmon->mfact = f;
+ selmon->mfact = selmon->mfacts[selmon->curtag] = f;
arrange();
@@ -1427,6 +1472,7 @@
unsigned int i;
int w;
XSetWindowAttributes wa;
+ Monitor *m;
/* init screen */
screen = DefaultScreen(dpy);
@@ -1458,11 +1504,31 @@
XSetLineAttributes(dpy, dc.gc, 1, LineSolid, CapButt, JoinMiter);
if(!dc.font.set)
XSetFont(dpy, dc.gc, dc.font.xfont->fid);
+ /* init tags */
+ for(m = mons; m; m = m->next)
+ m->curtag = m->prevtag = 1;
+ /* init mfacts */
+ for(m = mons; m; m = m->next) {
+ for(i=0; i < LENGTH(tags) + 1 ; i++) {
+ m->mfacts[i] = m->mfact;
+ }
+ }
+ /* init layouts */
+ for(m = mons; m; m = m->next) {
+ for(i=0; i < LENGTH(tags) + 1; i++) {
+ m->lts[i] = &layouts[0];
+ }
+ }
/* init bars */
for(blw = i = 0; LENGTH(layouts) > 1 && i < LENGTH(layouts); i++) {
w = TEXTW(layouts[i].symbol);
blw = MAX(blw, w);
+ for(m = mons; m; m = m->next) {
+ for(i=0; i < LENGTH(tags) + 1; i++) {
+ m->showbars[i] = m->showbar;
+ }
+ }
updatebars();
updatestatus();
/* EWMH support per view */
@@ -1572,7 +1638,7 @@
void
togglebar(const Arg *arg) {
- selmon->showbar = !selmon->showbar;
+ selmon->showbar = selmon->showbars[selmon->curtag] = !selmon->showbar;
updatebarpos(selmon);
XMoveResizeWindow(dpy, selmon->barwin, selmon->wx, selmon->by, selmon->ww, bh);
arrange();
@@ -1592,12 +1658,26 @@
void
toggletag(const Arg *arg) {
unsigned int mask;
+ unsigned int i;
if(!selmon->sel)
return;
mask = selmon->sel->tags ^ (arg->ui & TAGMASK);
if(mask) {
- selmon->sel->tags = mask;
+ if(mask == ~0) {
+ selmon->prevtag = selmon->curtag;
+ selmon->curtag = 0;
+ }
+ if(!(mask & 1 << (selmon->curtag - 1))) {
+ selmon->prevtag = selmon->curtag;
+ for (i=0; !(mask & 1 << i); i++);
+ selmon->curtag = i + 1;
+ }
+ selmon->sel->tags = mask;
+ selmon->lt[selmon->sellt] = selmon->lts[selmon->curtag];
+ selmon->mfact = selmon->mfacts[selmon->curtag];
+ if (selmon->showbar != selmon->showbars[selmon->curtag])
+ togglebar(NULL);
arrange();
@@ -1854,11 +1934,28 @@
void
view(const Arg *arg) {
+ unsigned int i;
if((arg->ui & TAGMASK) == selmon->tagset[selmon->seltags])
return;
selmon->seltags ^= 1; /* toggle sel tagset */
- if(arg->ui & TAGMASK)
- selmon->tagset[selmon->seltags] = arg->ui & TAGMASK;
+ if(arg->ui & TAGMASK) {
+ selmon->tagset[selmon->seltags] = arg->ui & TAGMASK;
+ selmon->prevtag = selmon->curtag;
+ if(arg->ui == ~0)
+ selmon->curtag = 0;
+ else {
+ for (i=0; !(arg->ui & 1 << i); i++);
+ selmon->curtag = i + 1;
+ }
+ } else {
+ selmon->prevtag= selmon->curtag ^ selmon->prevtag;
+ selmon->curtag^= selmon->prevtag;
+ selmon->prevtag= selmon->curtag ^ selmon->prevtag;
+ }
+ selmon->lt[selmon->sellt]= selmon->lts[selmon->curtag];
+ selmon->mfact = selmon->mfacts[selmon->curtag];
+ if(selmon->showbar != selmon->showbars[selmon->curtag])
+ togglebar(NULL);
arrange();