Ruby-wmii

Question

I recently installed ruby-wmii after reading about what it adds.
Most everything works. But many things have been broken.
- Modkey-Return no longer brings up urxvt
-- For this I looked in wmiirc-config.rb at the keybindings and wmiirrc (from before I installed ruby-wmii) and everything looks the same (albeit in different syntaxes)
- my transparent urxvt blink whenever I do anything wmii related (change tabs, add another urxvt to the tab, etc)
-- turning off urxvt's transparency, shading, and fading in .Xdefaults fixes the problem but I would really prefer it with them
EDIT: -- I've figured out that even with default wmii it blinks just with default wmii its's bery fast.
EDIT: --- I assume that its just updating and with ruby-wmii it is slower when it updatesc
- Modkey-shift-# (# being a tag I want to send something to) no longer works as it should with some programs (firefox for example)
-- with urxvt it works fine but with firefox all it does is makes it so firefox is seen in both the current and the new tag. I want it so it is moved like what it use to do
- feh no longer will set the background.
All this problems cropped up after installing ruby-wmii and ssid. If worse comes to worst I'll just remove ruby-wmii and ssid and use the sh script again. I think I'm noticing ruby-wmii acting slower then plain wmii but that probably is ny mind waiting for various key codes that are broken to work... the darn key codes have spoiled me.
Also: OpenOffice won't work with ruby-wmii or normal wmii. It says " no suitable windowing system found, exiting." (This is not a biggie. I can just use Abiword but I would prefer OpenOffice and want to know if there is a way to make it work)
Last edited by tadada (2008-07-12 11:02:52)

Answer 1

I'm a newbie, too.
Modkey-Return no longer brings up urxvt
I had to change:
plugin_config["standard"]["x-terminal-emulator"] = "x-terminal-emulator"
plugin_config["standard"]["x-terminal-emulator"] = "urxvt -tr"
Also: OpenOffice won't work with ruby-wmii or normal wmii. It says " no suitable windowing system found, exiting."
Does it work with any other WM/DE?
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10680
You could post your wmiirc-config.rb, here is mine:
# {{{ ======== ruby-wmii CONFIGURATION BEGINS HERE ==============
# Set the log level
# It defaults to Logger::INFO.
# Set to Logger::DEBUG for extra verbosity.
#LOGGER.level = Logger::DEBUG
# programs to run when wmiirc starts
# one per line, they're run sequentially right before the main loop begins
START_PROGS = <<EOF
eval `cat $HOME/.fehbg`
EOF
# {{{ WM CONFIGURATION
WMII::Configuration.define do
border 1
font '-*-terminus-medium-r-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*'
focuscolors '#FFFFFF #18185A #4c7899'
normcolors '#888888 #000000 #333333'
grabmod 'Mod1'
rules <<EOF
/Kdict.*/ -> dict
/XMMS.*/ -> ~
/Gimp.*/ -> ~
/imagemagick.*/ -> ~
/nxclient.*/ -> ~
/MPlayer.*/ -> ~
/XForm.*/ -> ~
/XSane.*/ -> ~
/fontforge.*/ -> ~
/gtk-chtheme.*/ -> ~
/Firefox.*/ -> Internet
/gimv.*/ -> ~
/w3m.*/ -> Internet
/mutt.*/ -> Mail
/epdfview.*/ -> PDF
/mocp.*/ -> Musik
/streamripper.*/ -> Musik
/.*/ -> !
/.*/ -> 1
EOF
# Translate the following names in the on_key and use_binding definitions.
key_subs :MODKEY => :Mod1,
:MODKEY2 => :Mod4,
:LEFT => :h,
:RIGHT => :l,
:UP => :k,
:DOWN => :j
# Constant used by the intellisort tag selection mechanism
# set it to 0.0 <= value <= 1.0
# Lower values make recent choices more likely (modified first order
# markovian process with exponential decay):
# 0.0 means that only the last transition counts (all others forgotten)
# 1.0 means that the probabilities aren't biased to make recent choices more
# likely
view_history_decay 0.8
# Favor the view we came from in intellisort.
# 1.0: that view is the first choice
# 0.0: that view comes after all views with non-zero transition probability,
# but before all views we haven't yet jumped to from the current one
view_history_prev_bias 0.4
dmenu_options %(-b -fn "#{font}" -nf "#{normcolors.split[0]}" -nb "#{normcolors.split[1]}" -sf "#{focuscolors.split[0]}" -sb "#{focuscolors.split[1]}")
# {{{ Plugin config
# Uncomment and change to override default on_click actions for the status
# bar
#plugin_config["standard:status"]["left_click_action"] = lambda{ system "xeyes" }
#plugin_config["standard:status"]["right_click_action"] = lambda{ system "xeyes" }
#plugin_config["standard:status"]["middle_click_action"] = lambda{ system "xeyes" }
plugin_config["standard:status"]["refresh_time"] = 1
# Uncomment and change to override default text
#currload = nil
#Thread.new{ loop { currload = `uptime`.chomp.sub(/.*: /,"").gsub(/,/,""); sleep 10 } }
#plugin_config["standard:status"]["text_proc"] = lambda do
# "{Time.new.strftime("%d-%m-%Y %H:%M")} {currload}"
#end
plugin_config["standard"]["x-terminal-emulator"] = "urxvt -tr"
plugin_config["standard:actions"]["history_size"] = 3 # set to 0 to disable
plugin_config["standard:programs"]["history_size"] = 5 # set to 0 to disable
plugin_config["standard:volume"]["mixer"] = "Master"
plugin_config["standard:mode"]["mode_toggle_keys"] = ["MODKEY2-space"]
plugin_config["standard:battery-monitor"]["statefile"] =
'/proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state'
plugin_config["standard:battery-monitor"]["infofile"] =
'/proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info'
plugin_config["standard:battery-monitor"]["low"] = 5
plugin_config["standard:battery-monitor"]["low_action"] =
'echo "Low battery" | xmessage -center -buttons quit:0 -default quit -file -'
plugin_config["standard:battery-monitor"]["critical"] = 1
plugin_config["standard:battery-monitor"]["critical_action"] =
'echo "Critical battery" | xmessage -center -buttons quit:0 -default quit -file -'
# Allows you to override the default internal actions and define new ones:
#plugin_config["standard:actions"]["internal"].update({
# "screenshot" => nil, # remove default screenshot action
# "google" => lambda do |wmii, *selection|
# require 'cgi'
# if selection && !selection.empty?
# selection = CGI.escape(selection.join(" "))
# else
# selection = CGI.escape(%!#{`sselp`.strip}!)
# end
# url = "http://www.google.com/search?q=#{selection}"
# case browser = ENV["BROWSER"]
# when nil: system "ssid /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser '#{url}' &"
# else system "ssid #{browser} '#{url}' &"
# end
# end,
# "foo" => lambda do |wmii, *args|
# IO.popen("xmessage -file -", "w"){|f| f.puts "Args: #{args.inspect}"; f.close_write }
# end
# {{{ Import bindings and bar applets
from "standard" do
use_feature "tag-bar"
use_bar_applet "volume", 60
#use_bar_applet "mode", 900
use_bar_applet "status", 100
#use_bar_applet "cpuinfo", 150
use_bar_applet "mpd", 50 #110
#use_bar_applet "battery-monitor"
use_binding "dict-lookup"
use_binding "execute-program-with-tag"
use_binding "execute-action"
use_binding "execute-program"
(0..9).each{|k| use_binding "numeric-jump-#{k}" }
use_binding "detag"
use_binding "tag-jump"
use_binding "retag"
use_binding "retag-jump"
use_binding "namespace-retag"
use_binding "namespace-retag-jump"
(('a'..'z').to_a+('0'..'9').to_a).each{|k| use_binding "letter-jump-#{k}" }
(0..9).each{|k| use_binding "numeric-retag-#{k}" }
(('a'..'z').to_a+('0'..'9').to_a).each{|k| use_binding "letter-retag-#{k}" }
use_binding "move-prev"
use_binding "move-next"
use_binding "namespace-move-prev"
use_binding "namespace-move-next"
use_binding "history-move-forward"
use_binding "history-move-back"
use_binding "bookmark"
use_binding "bookmark-open"
use_feature "bookmark:actions"
end
# Mail-Plugin
from "temporaer at gmx dot de" do
use_bar_applet "msgs"
end
# {{{ del.icio.us bookmark import
#plugin_config["standard:bookmark"]["del.icio.us-user"] = 'myusername'
#plugin_config["standard:bookmark"]["del.icio.us-password"] = 'mypass'
## WORD OF CAUTION!
## Before setting the sync mode to :bidirectional, make sure
## that your bookmarks.txt file contains all the bookmarks you want to keep,
## because all the del.icio.us bookmarks not listed there will be deleted!
## You can import your del.icio.us bookmarks by setting it to
## :unidirectional and reloading wmiirc ("ALT-a wmiirc" by default).
## Allow some time for the bookmarks to be downloaded (wait until you see
## "Done importing bookmarks from del.icio.us." in
## $HOME/.wmii-3.5/wmiirc.log). You can then change the mode to :bidirectional
## and reload wmiirc. From that point on, the bookmark lists will be
## synchronized, so local modifications will be propagated to del.icio.us,
## and if you remove a bookmark locally it will also be deleted on
## del.icio.us.
#plugin_config["standard:bookmark"]["del.icio.us-mode"] = :bidirectional
#plugin_config["standard:bookmark"]["del.icio.us-share"] = true
## Sets the encoding used to:
# * store the bookmark descriptions in bookmarks.txt
# * present choices through dmenu
# Please make sure your bookmarks.txt uses the appropriate encoding before
# setting the next line. If you had already imported bookmarks from
# del.icio.us, they will be stored UTF-8, so you might want to
# recode utf-8..NEW_ENCODING bookmarks.txt
# If left to nil, bookmarks imported from del.icio.us will be in UTF-8, and
# those created locally will be in the encoding specified by your locale.
#plugin_config["standard:bookmark"]["encoding"] = 'KOI8-R'
# Allows you to override the default bookmark protocols and define new ones:
#plugin_config["standard:bookmark"]["protocols"].update({
# 'http' => nil, # remove default http protocol
# 'ssh' => {
# :open_urls => lambda do |wmii,bms|
# term = wmii.plugin_config["standard"]["x-terminal-emulator"] || "urxvt"
# bms.each do |bm|
# uri = bm[:uri]
# ssh_host = uri.host
# ssh_host = "#{uri.user}@" + ssh_host unless uri.user.nil?
# ssh_port = "-p #{uri.port}" unless uri.port.nil?
# system "ssid #{term} -T '#{bm[:bm].url}' -e 'ssh #{ssh_host} #{ssh_port} || read' &"
# end
# end,
# :get_title => lambda do |wmii,uri|
# title = uri.host
# title = "#{uri.user}@" + title unless uri.user.nil?
# title << ":#{uri.port.to_s}" unless uri.port.nil?
# title
# end
# 'pdf' => {
# :open_urls => lambda do |wmii,bms|
# bms.each do |bm|
# path = URI.unescape(bm[:uri].path)
# LOGGER.info "Opening #{path} with xpdf."
# system "ssid xpdf '#{path}' &"
# end
# end,
# :get_title => lambda do |wmii,uri|
# fname = File.basename(URI.unescape(uri.to_s)).gsub(/\.\S+$/,"")
# [fname, fname.downcase, fname.capitalize]
# end
# {{{ Tag all browser instances as 'web' in addition to the current tag
browsers = %w[Firefox Konqueror Minefield]
browser_re = /^#{browsers.join("|")}/
on_createclient(condition{|c| browser_re =~ read("/client/#{c}/props")}) do |cid|
write("/client/#{cid}/tags", "+web")
end
# {{{ Simpler key bindings --- not defined in plugins
on_key("MODKEY-LEFT"){ write "/tag/sel/ctl", "select left" }
on_key("MODKEY-RIGHT"){ write "/tag/sel/ctl", "select right" }
on_key("MODKEY-DOWN"){ write "/tag/sel/ctl", "select down" }
on_key("MODKEY-UP"){ write "/tag/sel/ctl", "select up" }
on_key("MODKEY-space"){ write "/tag/sel/ctl", "select toggle" }
on_key("MODKEY-d"){ write "/tag/sel/ctl", "colmode sel default" }
on_key("MODKEY-s"){ write "/tag/sel/ctl", "colmode sel stack" }
on_key("MODKEY-m"){ write "/tag/sel/ctl", "colmode sel max" }
on_key("MODKEY-Return") do
term = plugin_config["standard"]["x-terminal-emulator"] || "urxvt"
system "#{term} &"
end
on_key("MODKEY-Shift-LEFT"){ write "/tag/sel/ctl", "send sel left" }
on_key("MODKEY-Shift-RIGHT"){ write "/tag/sel/ctl", "send sel right" }
on_key("MODKEY-Shift-DOWN"){ write "/tag/sel/ctl", "send sel down" }
on_key("MODKEY-Shift-UP"){ write "/tag/sel/ctl", "send sel up" }
on_key("MODKEY-Shift-space"){ write "/tag/sel/ctl", "send sel toggle" }
on_key("MODKEY-Shift-c"){ write "/client/sel/ctl", "kill" }
on_key("MODKEY-r"){ view prev_view }
on_key("MODKEY-Control-LEFT") { write "/tag/sel/ctl", "swap sel left" }
on_key("MODKEY-Control-RIGHT"){ write "/tag/sel/ctl", "swap sel right" }
on_key("MODKEY2-m") {
system("rm ~/.events")
system("urxvt -tr -e mutt &")
on_key("MODKEY2-w") {
system("urxvt -tr -e w3m www.google.de &")
# Hack to tag "next" window from shell or elsewhere
@nexttag = ""
register("NextWindowTags", nil, nil) {|tag,| @nexttag = tag }
on_createclient do |cid|
if @nexttag != ""
write("/client/#{cid}/tags", @nexttag )
@nexttag = ""
end
end
# {{{ ======== CONFIGURATION ENDS HERE ==============
end