[aklug] Re: Crunchbang 11 Waldorf

Welp.. i3 is rather simple, like xmonad, and very light. I use it to offer
me multiple 'workspaces' per monitor regardless of twinview/xinerama
status. It allows me to easily segregate screens as a collection of
workspaces. The ability to move windows around between them with a quick
meta shortcut is about the most valuable tool I've ever had in a window
manager.. and the 'scratchbox' mode allows me to park windows in an
invisible magical hole in space and time for use later on.

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Robert Crowe <crowe.robert@gmail.com>wrote:

> Nice! I never heard of i3wm-which has been one of those dragons I've been
> trying to slay in x. I use screen on my P3's and it is efficient-just a
> flick o the keyboard and I had alpine, nano, and mplayer right there for my
> viewing pleasure.
>
> It stood to reason I could do the same with x. I bljorked my #! Statler
> install twice a couple years ago while trying to get xmonad to play nice
> with Openbox. I finally made the face-palm permanent and settled down with
> xfce-terminal and screen within openbox.
>
> And that is what I was looking for! Efficient (low resources and doesn't
> get in the way) with oob use. I'm warming up virtualbox as we speak. :)
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:14 PM, Shane Spencer <shane@bogomip.com> wrote:
>
>> I mostly run Debian Testing and set the default release to "testing" for
>> apt preferences. I occasionally `apt-get -t unstable install something`...
>> but otherwise I'm pretty content with Debian Wheezy (Testing) and i3wm,
>> rxvt-unicode, and chromium. :)
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 9:28 AM, Robert Crowe <crowe.robert@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Happy Monday!
>>>
>>> I made the move this weekend on my "high-end" machine (Dell Inspiron 14r
>>> i3) from Crunchbang Statler to Waldorf (Squeeze to Wheezy.) All I can say
>>> is "Bob like."
>>>
>>> Just enough utilities to setup and forget, but little to no overhead. I
>>> am finding myself drifting more to terminal apps and lately even some bash
>>> scripts. One recent example was a script using gpg to encrypt/decrypt
>>> files-made it executable then pointed Thunars custom actions towards it.
>>> Right click encryption. Easy. Another was a script to convert pdf to html
>>> so I can view it with elinks. The same ease (mixed success because it sends
>>> the html to home...sometimes. It's still fun to figure things out however.)
>>>
>>> I especially appreciate the community. Some have created scripts<http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=188514%23p188514#p188514/>to strip #! down and turn it into fast Sid box while others even got
>>> Netflix <http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=23958> streaming
>>> to work. And everything in between. Just outstanding. I have virtualbox on
>>> the dell because I want to tweak a post-install script before installing on
>>> the netbook. And just for fun-I limited the ram to 256mb. The stock #!
>>> functioned nicely.
>>>
>>> One of the better reviews<http://log.animeshb.in/2013/02/a-crunchbang-experience-year-later.html>echo my sentiments. For the record, I gave Xubuntu 12.04 and my very first
>>> Distro (Opensuse) in it's 12.3 flavor a fair shake-Crunchbang just fit the
>>> bill for me. Based on Debian (no radical changes,) Minimal interface, no
>>> crashes, and everything just works.
>>>
>>> I'm going to switch my netbook over this week to Waldorf, and keep my 2
>>> P3's x-less but upgrade to wheezy. Unless the allure of the snappy and
>>> bleeding edge Sid cannot be resisted anymore...
>>>
>>> Then settle in for a long and stable computing experience. :) I highly
>>> recommend this distro.
>>>
>>> --
>>> ΨΦ! μ~πζ≈∞Ωא
>>> "Listen to me! When you die in Alaska you die in real life!"
>>>
>>> "Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet."
>>> African Proverb
>>>
>>> "When in charge, ponder. When in doubt, mumble. When in trouble,
>>> delegate."
>>>
>>> I make chaos
>>>
>>> Powered by #!Crunchbang Waldorf stable encrypted sda Ultra fast and
>>> lean-never phear the Penguin ;)
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> ΨΦ! μ~πζ≈∞Ωא
> "Listen to me! When you die in Alaska you die in real life!"
>
> The Other person is never the problem.
>
>
> "When in charge, ponder. When in doubt, mumble. When in trouble, delegate."
>
> I make chaos
>
> Powered by #!Crunchbang Waldorf stable encrypted sda Ultra fast and
> lean-never phear the Penguin ;)
>

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Received on Sun Feb 24 16:17:39 2013