Just discovered a goldmine

scottro said:
That's NapoleonWils0n, I link to his stuff from some of my pages. He's a forum member and will usually notice if you ping him. For me, his stuff on Nvidia and the dwl Wayland manager were VERY useful.
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Yes, he has helped me lots of times, but I wasn't aware of his extensive set of videos.

I have so much to learn, although watching a video of something makes it much easier than reading docs. Usually you can follow an example to see if you can recreate what is shown.
 
He's got kind of a yorkshire accent, but not very broad. He doesn't sound like a Leeds or Bradford accent to me, maybe south yorkshire. I'm not completely sure he's from yorkshire. Hmm, maybe I'm wrong about him being a forum member, not certain.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxF4nIxp8xo

This what it used to be like.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F8l_6Hzvxc

I used to notice there were different accents in different areas of the larger cities, like Leeds, that originated in the villages that used to be there before they joined up into a city in the last two centuries. I could tell which part of the city they were from by their accent. Bradford had quite a distinct accent of its own, and Ilkley and the dales were different again.
 
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Yes we are all from the UK

Funny thing is i actually get more views from
the US, Germany, India and Brazil than the UK

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This is where i keep all my notes

github.com

GitHub - NapoleonWils0n/cerberus: cerberus code library

cerberus code library. Contribute to NapoleonWils0n/cerberus development by creating an account on GitHub.
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atax1a said:
wrong, *this* is what a gold mine looks like
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wrong. That's more some kind of a romantic idea of a gold mine. That's how medieval goldmines looked.
*this* is what a gold mine looks like:
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The average quota of today's mined gold resources is ~5 g gold per ton rock.
One can say, per a single goldring 20 t rubble is produced and dumped along with tons of mercury or sodium cyanide and other very toxic waste into the landscapes, causing large substantial destruction of whole landscapes.
Combimed with diamond mining it's a neat idea that every couple must have two goldrings first for engagement and then two again for marriage, beause it's so very romantic, but above all tradition.
Tradition: Doing inconsidered stupid things without asking just because others also do it.

While a ring made from paper-mâché would last longer than an average marriage. 😁
 
Alain De Vos said:
Sorry, you joke but can you expplain ,your idea in two lines , please.
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Nope.
I did not joke.
Only the last line was the joke. Count it: one - 1 - line.
Not everybody is capable to understand one-word-statements in every occasion.
And some may think, because they grasped it, so does anybody else.
Alas, that's not always the case.
 
Just going to add to this thread, because I think it's worth mentioning somewhere :). I've mentioned that my issue with dwl, NapoleonWils0n 's favored Wayland window manager, and, I think the subject of many of his videos, was that it didn't support Japanese the way many Wayland window managers did. It seems, judging by https://codeberg.org/dwl/dwl/commit/2f3fe0671df9fd9aee34acc6ef2471a76b4cece6, that this is going to change soon. I realize that this only affects a few (maybe only me?) users on this forum. and I haven't confirmed it yet, the port will have to be updated, as I'm too lazy to patch myself--but I'll also mention that the FreeBSD dwl maintainer, has been VERY responsive to my various complaints, sometimes fixing things faster than they get fixed at codeberg.

I thought a thread about NapoleonWils0n s videos, so many of which include dwl, was a good place to mention it.
 
To continue to add to this, I downloaded dwl on Feodra (latest, which was 0.9 or so) and tried with Japanese. Seems to be fine. I also did a git clone on FreeeBSD and it built without problem but then, if I used my custom config.h it failed. So, I'll have to redo my custom config.h but I think that once FreeBSD upgrades to 0.9, it will be fine with various IMEs. (I use fcitx5-anthy). I may add to this again once I redo my config.h and fix whatever was wrong.

Addition. It was quite simple to redo my custom config.h. I didn't go line by line to see what the differences were, but if you just get the git clone from codeberg, and do your config.h which is easy if you're used to it, and then run make and make install you can have the latest release of it, which will work with IME. I don't think anyone on these forums uses dwm (or dwl) with Japanese or other language requiring an IME, but if they're lookijng for it and a web search takes them here, now they'll know. I also emailed the developer, and perhaps the port and package might get updated too. It doesn't seem to require a lot of coding, but of course, it's overly easy to say "It's now work at all," to someone who has to actually do that work. :)
 
And to answer myself again, the maintainer has updated to dwl-0.9 which handles IMEs. I just tried with Japanese, but I'm guessing it would now work with Chinese and other Asian language. One does have to redo custom config.h but that is common with various versions of dwm as well. NapoleonWils0n just pinging you to let you know dwl is now up to 0.9, though depending on any needs of yours might not be worth updating. It was for me because I needed Japanese.
 
scottro thanks for the heads up

I just updated to dwl version 0.9
There is a change needed to build with xwayland support

you now need to build with

Code: 
gmake CC=cc CFLAGS+='-std=c11 -Wno-strict-prototypes' XWAYLAND="-DXWAYLAND" XLIBS="xcb xcb-icccm"

and you need wlroots020-0.20.2

dwl v9 has support for the ext-foreign-toplevel-list protocol

which allows you to list open windows,
but it doesnt work with wlrctl

so looking for a way around that
 
I didn't play with that. My main interest was the IME support. I think it pulled in the wlroots020 automatically, and then, when I did an autoremove got rid of the older version.
 
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