Well, after a day of playing I’m starting to get something resembling a decent system again. I think I’m trying to do too much in one weekend though. Instead of just instaling a new distro I’m also learning how to use a new window manager.
The WM I’m using now is Xmonad. If you’re a Linux user and have never looked at it, it might be a good idea to. It’s a tiling window manager so it changes the way you do things. I have never liked using a mouse for most tasks and have always used lots of keybindings to make things faster for me. In this sense this is an excellent window manager. Everything is pretty much done with the keyboard and you let the window manager take care of placing windows for you.
There is different algorithms available for window placement and resizing. I haven’t looked into it much yet, I’m just trying to get things going and working. I hope to have a post int he future on configuring Xmonad but that won’t be until I’m comfortable using it.
Here’s a quick screenshot of what my desktop looks like right now. This is my virtual desktop that I do my coding in.
I’m going to have to change the fonts yet but I think I’ve done enough for one day. I’ll post some updates as I continue this journey and hopefully I get everything installed so I can encode the long overdue screencast.
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3 Responses to “Getting There”
I love XMonad too. What console and problem do you use to archive transparency?
Looking forward for more posts on XMonad.
Awesome screenshot. Can’t wait to see more info about the config and any tricks you find out. I recently moved to a Mac desktop for work and haven’t gotten XMonad working in X yet, but plan on it.
Going back to read your Arch Linux posts now
I’m using unicode-rxvt or urxvt for the terminal. My settings for it are in ~/.Xdefaults
URxvt.termName: rxvt
URxvt.transparent: true
URxvt.scrollBar: false
URxvt.savelines: 500
URxvt.urlLauncher: firefox
URxvt.cursorBlink: true
URxvt.fading: 25%
urxvt.shading: 25
urxvt.background: rgba:0000/0000/0000/dddd
urxvt.foreground: grey80
urxvt.tintcolor: #262626
URxvt.font: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-10.5