#fvwm #fvwm3 #wayland

Let's play spot the difference!

One, both, or none of two screenshots are from fvwm3.

Can you guess which?

If not, could you maybe guess is one of the screenshots is based on wayland? ;)

In all seriousness, I'm trying to emulate the fvwm/mwm look in #hikari -- and I think the results are impressive, especially if you can't tell which image is from which #wm.

#cow #stpatricksday

As it's St. Patrick's Day soon, my wife thought she'd dress Angus:

Moo!

#tmux portable release 3.6

This has now been released.

Some really great stuff in this release. For the nitty-gritty, see:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tmux/tmux/3.6/CHANGES

For me, there's a myriad of interesting things in there. The big one is pane-scrollbars, as shown in the screenshot attached...

Enjoy!

#keyboards #keyboardlayout #programming #workmanlayout

Hey all.

I was made aware of this earlier:

https://workmanlayout.org/

This is a very interesting read. I once tried the #dvorak layout for about a day and decided it wasn't for me.

But I never stopped to consider that there would be other layouts besides QWERTY and $OTHERS -- even Dvorak -- although popular -- isn't "mainstream".

For me, I've always found QWERTY easier because I used to use my late grandmother's typewriter -- and I tend to do more "writing" than programming these days.

That said -- it got me thinking -- for anyone reading this who does use an alternative keyboard layout from QWERTY -- how's that working out for you, and which one do you use?

I am also very curious to know from a programming perspective how a non-QWERTY keyboard layout is like with modal editors -- (neo)vim for example -- does this help, hinder, or do you end up having to use a bunch of key mappings to make it work?

In terms of a specific keyboard, I'm using a Keychron Q11, as per the image in this post.

If the keyboard itself is relevant to the keyboard layout for some reason, I'd be interested to know!

#cow #autumn

As is tradition, Angus has become Angus Autumnton...

#moo

Due to technical difficulties, I’m still at CGD waiting to go home.

This time, I spotted a dot matrix #printer in use.

Amazing!

I’m sat at CDG airport waiting to go home to England.

When we were in France, I saw the following in the photo attached.

Not sure what the ‘ba’ command is, but it’s definitely spawning ‘sh’ afterwards.

#sh #bash

#ruler #terminal #tmux #ded

I've had this idea of having a ruler in the terminal. Such a ruler would allow me to see how far across the terminal a character or word is.

Why? Not sure yet, I just liked the idea of it. You know, this is one of those solutions looking for a problem. ;). Still, it was fun.

What I came up was this:

(ruler1.png)

This is achieved using tmux, where it's possible to create a split where the output is taken from stdin (rather than spawning a shell):

% ruler | tmux splitw -dI -l2 -b &

Here, this creates a split window two lines high (-l2), puts on the top (-b), and puts the output from the`ruler` command in the window.

Then I can use text using whatever against the ruler to see where on the screen it is.

We can take this a step further though and make use of tmux's `popup-display` command to have a ruler floating on the screen:

(ruler2.png)

... and even make it borderless:

(ruler3.png)

This can be moved using the mouse, by holding Alt down and dragging with mouse-1.

It turns out that using a ruler in an application isn't new.

Thomas Dickey (of #xterm fame) wrote #ded (https://invisible-island.net/ded/ded.html) which has a ruler on it:

(ruler4.png)

#ded is an interesting program of itself and I had to tweak it slightly to make ot use ncursesw to display nicely in tmux (ACS fallback for drawing the ruler), which I might discuss in a separate thread on here.

I'll have to email Thomas to find out what the "workspace ruler" (as it's called) does, and what it's useful for.

As for my ruler, well, I think I have the measure of it now, so I think I'll re-write the quick shell script into something with bells-and-whistles.

Maybe I'll give it conversion options to display inches, feet, cubits, etc... ;)

#uk #govwarning #alerting

The UK has just had another mass-public testing of its "severe alerting" mechanism, which makes most phones vibrate and make a sound even if the phone is on silent.

Last time this was done (2023) it didn't go very well (no Government project the UK undertaken *ever* works, it's always a f**king disaster). This time though, it seemed to go well.