Hi,

Software is young disciple. Bugs happen.
Construction is old discipline. Collapses happen.

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Best regards,
Andrzej Telszewski

dupe.

I know a lot of users through the years have wondered why there is not a tiling wm in stock Slackware. I understand the dependency issue with most tiling wm's but I would personally love to see ratpoison added. It is mature enough to be considered VERY stable IMHO and I have personally installed it on almost all of my Slack boxes through the years. It does not require any outside requirements and is very configurable.

If one was to be added, I'd vote for awesome or i3, since they're the easiest to get into and also the most popular.

I'd argue against awesome as its designed as eye candy, not as a functional or useful window manager. i3 does that a little too, but its much more useful. If any tiling wm is added dmenu should be added too and last time I mentioned this I said spectrwm, but nothing came of it.

Also the developers of i3 have serious documentation issues like linking to reddit for their FAQ and they only made i3 in the first place because they were not competent enough to hack wmii, I would take that as a sign to be weary.

Can't say I agree with awesome being "designed as eyecandy" or that it's not functional or useful (in fact none of the features they list are connected to "eye-candy"). I use it exclusively, and the basic setup is quite plain (and I've not bothered to change it). I tried a bunch of tiling WMs, and awesomewm and i3 were the only two that seemed immediately useable to me (as far as tiling WMs go at least). Anyway, I don't think it's really necessary to add any tiling window manager to stock since they all require customisation, and it would basically be impossible to pick one that everyone would agree on.

This is why if one was added it should be one that is extremely simple and easy to configure, hence the spectrwm suggestion. I'm not sure what other one can do that without bringing in other dependencies. For example awesome would require adding lua too which may not be desirable for one program. That said installing a tiling window manager is easy and if Pat decides to not add one that is entirely fine.

May I suggest taking the tiling WM holy war here?

Heretic! But point taken

The release notes for Thunderbird-45.5.0, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunde.../releasenotes/

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And a package for those who can't wait.

Caveat emptor: it's a repackaging of an official binary (64-bit).

But you get bundled the UI translated in 37 locales at no additional cost.

This works in 14.2, probably also on -current but I didn't check.

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Is there some reason curl is still compiled with --with-ca-bundle=/usr/share/curl/ca-bundle.crt and ships its own CA bundle, rather than using /etc/ssl? Pidgin has, somewhat recently, been converted to the system wide certs, might as well try to make the whole system coherent wrt accepted CA's..

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Request to change the asciidoc-conf files to .conf.new files

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4.8.11/4.4.35 kernels are out.

4.4.35 changelog

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Have it running on x86_64 current with NVIDIA drivers 375.20 and Alien's KDE5. No issues so far.

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