dnkl :emacs: / is on Nostr

Professional software developer, working mostly in C.

My public projects are usually Wayland related.

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2024-07-25 07:43:52

Decided to spruce up fnott just a tiny bit; I'm working on adding:
* XDG activation support (sending a token back to the notifying application)
* dismiss and trigger default action at the same time (will be the new default for left clicking, and a new fnottctl command)
* x-canonical-private-synchronous hint support (alternative to replacing a notification with e.g notify-send's --replace-id)

2024-07-25 04:09:30

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A number of people suggested 'fyi', and I decided to go with that.
https://codeberg.org/dnkl/fyi

2024-07-24 17:50:25

Sigh, hedwig *will* be renamed to something else. Something that doesn't already exist.
Haven't decided what yet; it's surprisingly hard to find a meaningful name that isn't already in use...
https://codeberg.org/dnkl/hedwig

2024-07-24 14:14:49

Hedwig it is, for now. Available at
https://codeberg.org/dnkl/hedwig
Status: it works, and code quality isn't _too_ bad... could definitely use some cleanup.
* No documentation, yet.
* Name _may_ change.
* Output format may change.
* Syntax may change.
If the above doesn't deter you; I've spent roughly 4-6 hours on this so far. Expect bugs.

2024-07-24 11:50:35

Ended up writing my own notify-send after all.
Written in C.
Depends on dbus only (i.e not libnotify).
Supports everything notify-send and dunstify combined supports.
What's a good name for it (if I decide to publish it)?

2024-07-19 07:01:19

There's an open PR for #neovim to add support for the new private mode 2048 - in-band window resize notifications.
If done properly, this _should_ get rid of all size mismatches between neovim and the terminal window, when, for example, starting neovim together with the terminal (i.e. terminal-app -e nvim) on, say, a tiling VM.
Lets hope more applications adopt this!
And yes, #foot has support for mode 2048 (master branch, not yet released).

2024-06-27 17:30:44

Suggestions for terminal applications that make use of styled and colored underlines I can test in #foot ?
Would love to hear about something *other* than syntax errors in LSP...

2024-04-16 05:38:20

/me is stalking a foot issue on the WSLg issue tracker.
I know foot works, kind of, on WSL. But last time I checked it was way too buggy; WSL sucks/sucked at subsurfaces. There's also a bunch of Wayland protocols they don't support. Makes me wonder who would want to use foot on WSL...

2024-02-26 15:25:42

You might experience slightly larger, or smaller, fonts in e g #foot after upgrading #fcft to 3.1.8 (just now tagged and released).
This is expected, as fcft is now using FreeType size-setting APIs with higher-resolution parameters.
A simplified explanation is that fcft used to round the size (the pixel size, not the point size) to the nearest integer. Now it doesn't.
For those interested: here's the fcft patch: https://codeberg.org/dnkl/fcft/pulls/63

2023-10-11 17:32:48

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@npub1m26…2jhh one of my most wanted too...

2023-10-11 05:07:13

I somehow convinced my boss to get me a 200+ DPI monitor.
For the first time in my life, I can comfortably use vector fonts... I've always used bitmap fonts because I get headache of fuzzy, antialiased fonts.
This monitor has a high enough DPI that vector fonts actually look good.
So, what are good, crisp monospaced terminal/coding fonts? Using IBM Plex Mono for now, and like it so far.
It has to have italic and bold variants, and legible oO0lII, obviously.

2023-08-30 11:07:46

What's the idiomatic way, in #voidlinux, to install software from versioned controlled sources? That is, building "latest main/master"rather than a specific release?
Something similar to "foo-git" AUR packages.
As far as I can tell, xbps doesn't really support this use case (though I hope I'm wrong, and have missed something obvious)?
So what do people do?