While XMonad can be controlled entirely by the keyboard, it can still be a useful feature to change your workspace with a mouse click. I’ve been looking for this for quite some time and finally figured out how to get clickable workspaces in XMonad with dzen2. You’ll need 3 things: xmonad dzen2 >= rev. 267 [...]
In my pursuit for a fast and functional workstation environment, I am slowly migrating away from GNOME based applications towards less complex and lightweight applications that work well together with XMonad. An obvious candidate for replacement is GDM, the GNOME Display Manager. It’s basically a graphical login program that launches the correct desktop environment and/or [...]
It is time again to keep you in the loop on my desktop’s appearance. This month I’ve switched back to XMonad after using Gnome the last couple of months. Time and time again I’m surprised by the paradigm of tiling window managers and how functional you can make it. All in all I put together [...]
I didn’t have much time lately to post anything here. Exams are coming up so most of time goes to studying, as it should be. It will be like that till the end of june so don’t expect much activity in the next few weeks. But as a sign of me not neglecting my own [...]
To tile or not to tile, that’s the question. GNOME has always fulfilled my needs of a desktop environment. Nothing has ever been able to lure me away from GNOME. Its screensaver, its network manager, its power management and GTK applications, it all perfectly fits together. On the other hand, maximizing the usage of the [...]