On 8 July 2012 10:35, Jim Cheetham <[email protected]> wrote: > > That looks like a goot tool for a floating-windows user to use, to > learn the discipline of fixed windows :-) > > Or you could all hop over to XMonad or qtile ... and just run cssh to > open multiple xterms all hooked to the same input (by default, they > can be run independently if you like), with the window manager making > sure that you can see everything properly ... > > -jim
My personal recommendation list atm for Desktop environments are 1. awesome - http://awesome.naquadah.org/ - A dynamic floating and tiling window manager. - It lives up to its name, its light, its quick, its low on dependencies, and its configured/scriped in LUA. - And LUA is a very fun language =). - Handles multiple-desktops nicely and plays nice with most KDE/Gnome targeted apps. - Its great if you're a screen or TMux user and the amount of practicality you can achieve with it is pretty decent, even without a mouse. - Only downsides are you get used to the Start button being your go-to for doing everything with regard to window management, and then you go to other desktops ( or windows ) and everything breaks. ( Its worse than the middle-click-is-paste thing :( ) - I believe its much like XMonad, just I have not much love for the very heavyweight Haskell/GHC toolchain, and I've tried it, but it never played nicely with/for me for some reason. 2. compton - A minimalist standalone compositor for giving things like alpha-blending,transparency and shadows. - Very simple transition effects ( fading ). - A grandchild of ye' ole `xcompmgr` - https://github.com/chjj/compton 3. URxvt - lightweight, but fast and featureful terminal that people who love Xterm are likely to love also. - implements more of the ANSI Terminal spec than any other terminal I've managed to research including: - Full UTF-8 - italics - bold italics. - underlines - multiple font-faces with individual font-face codes via the ANSI escape mechanism - Dynamic "dual screen" scrolling mechanism that solves that pesky "I ran a program with my window at 20 px wide, and I resized my window, but the text stayed wrapped and I had to re-run-the-program" issue. ( Really, its magical ) - Bizarrely customizable. - Note: the stock configuration is not to my tasting, and I have an .XDefaults file that tunes it how I like, and it works wonderfully. - Contents of my ~/.XDefaults file here https://gist.github.com/3077990 - http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html Screenshot of all 3 of the above in action ( its very boring, but functional! ) http://i.imgur.com/kY7Tb.png -- Kent perl -e "print substr( \"edrgmaM SPA NOcomil.ic\\@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, 3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );" http://kent-fredric.fox.geek.nz _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
