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345 points splitbrain | 2 comments | 14 Oct 24 13:11 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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OsrsNeedsf2P ◴[14 Oct 24 14:08 UTC] No.41837682[source]▶
I love how simple this is- Barely 100 lines or C++ (ignoring comments). That's one thing that makes me prefer X11 over Wayland.
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sim7c00 ◴[14 Oct 24 15:00 UTC] No.41838181[source]▶
there's very little code because there's very little error handling / sanity checking. not saying X11 isn't hackable and cool, but a lot of code gets bloated and complex (and robust!) by not assuming perfect usage.

for example. run ./clipscreen 1 2 3 4

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splitbrain ◴[14 Oct 24 15:04 UTC] No.41838209[source]▶
True. If something goes wrong this will just crash. But to be fair, the only error handling I could think of would probably just exit with a vague error message... Pull requests to make it more robust welcome anyway!
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1. xrd ◴[14 Oct 24 16:41 UTC] No.41839220{3}[source]▶
To the parent, splitbrain just got you to QA this for him. The true cost of software is the maintenance and QA, and he got you to do free work, and here I am doing free work writing about it. How hard we BOTH just got pwned! </joke>
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2. sim7c00 ◴[14 Oct 24 17:13 UTC] No.41839573[source]▶
will work for food