wmiirc-lua v0.2 has suspend and raw modes

bartman
2007-10-13

[wmiirc-lua]{tags/wmiirc-lua} is a replacement for sh-based wmiirc that ships with the wmii window manager.

The big improvement in version 0.2 is the client tracking support; this enables raw and suspend modes…

in raw mode the wmii key-bindings are ignored and all input is passed to the application.
in suspend mode, the process that created a particular window will be sent the STOP signal when the window is not in focus. I wrote this with firefox in mind; even when idle and off-screen my firefox gets woken up 100 times per second.

There were also several bug fixes in this release. You will still need to build libixp and wmii from hg [as detained here]{wmiirc-in-lua-v0.1.1}.

To build you can then run:

    sudo apt-get install lua5.1 liblua5.1-0-dev liblua5.1-posix0 git-core
    
    git clone git://repo.or.cz/wmiirc-lua.git/
    
    cd wmiirc-lua
    make install-user

Also, visist #wmiirc-lua IRC channel on oftc.net.

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