Sean Dague wrote: > Joe's last email made me think, every Linux user has a slightly > different desktop environment. Maybe sharing some of our configurations > and favorite apps will help folks find what works for them. So I > encourage people to do that. > > My current setup: Ubuntu 14.04 (finished all the upgrades this past week) > > Desktop Env: Unity > > My pinned apps on the Unity Bar (so that they are always easily available): > 1. Chrome > 2. Thunderbird > 3. Emacs > 4. Pidgin > 5. XChat > > Though there is 6th app that I use as much as any of those which is > Tilda (a pop over Terminal). F1 toggles Tilda visibility. So I largely > live in a world with maximized windows and a terminal overlaying them. > > My favorite new recent find for an app is http://peterlevi.com/variety/ > which rotates your desktop wallpaper on a regular basis. > > What's your setup look like?
I'm still on Curmudgeon-OS: I'm using the Notion tiled window manager (the fork of ION3, which has been dropped from Ubuntu). I've played with Unity briefly but haven't seen anything about it I like enough to switch. All of my home and work systems (laptop and workstation) are configured roughly the same (modulo placement variations depending on how much screen real-estate I have): 1) shell and editor panels (editor is SpugEdit - http://www.mindhog.net/~mmuller/projects/spugedit/index.html) sit side by side at the core (either as workspace zero or at the center of workspace zero). The shell panel is set up like a notebook, with other shells retaining context occupying the panes. A screen session containing my (also home-grown, "spugmail") e-mail client typically ocupies one of them. 2) Chrome typically occupies all of the secondary workspace. 3) The non-laptop systems have a couple of chat windows in workspace zero. One is irssi (configured to go through a znc proxy), the other is a crypto-chat system I've been gradually developing since the beginning of last year which I mostly only use to chat with my wife. The only other things that typically show up are games (mostly Minecraft and Nexuiz) and the music programs I work with (lately ardour3, zynaddsubfx, and my own AWB sequencer). > > -Sean > > -- > Sean Dague > http://dague.net > > ============================================================================= michaelMuller = [email protected] | http://www.mindhog.net/~mmuller ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you are not willing to control your own mind, there are plenty of other people who are willing to do it for you. ============================================================================= _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org https://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College May 7 - Personal 3D Printing Jun 4 - Samba: Can We All Just Get Along? Jul 2 - Mad Science Fair IV
