Explain your desktop interface configuration (Page 1 of 2)

You need a tiling wm

how do you do a task menu? could you give me some pointers, even better could you write a tutorial.

thanks

KB

...or PyTyle!

Or that. OT, I'm running the standard scrotwm set of keybinds, with some of the #! Openbox ones, like Win F for Thunar, Win W for Firefox and stuff like that. Also, thanks to the awesomeness of mpd, I mapped the media keys to play, pause, stop, next, previous, so I'm mostly not even running the mpd clients.

^ since explanations only get you so far, you might want to see with your own eyes: http://roald.exul.nl/media/2011-10-29-- … _scrot.png

For a couple of weeks now, I am running scrotwm with 3 workspaces:
ws 1: chromium full-screen
ws2: emacs full-screen
        emacs has its own keybindings to tile to your hearts content.
ws3: 3 rxvt-unicode terminals.
These applications are autostarted in their respective workspaces.
Win + left/right arrow for switching ws
If I need to start another application,I do it in ws3. Then cycle between applications in ws 3 with WIN+space or Win+L to switch one of the applications to full-screen.
No background, No panels. No conky.

Last edited by xaos52 (2011-11-09 20:53:02)

The pastebin is calling out for your .cwmrc...

That was my mistake....
I haven't used tint2 in some time and forgot it comes with a systray and I for some reason thought "systray" was a seperate program like "trayer".

twmn is what I'm looking for, thank you very much!

The task menu is provided in Openbox and I believe available in Xfce if you set it up in the desktop settings.  It's configured to open when you middle click the desktop by default in openbox.  You can set a keybinding for it in your openbox rc.xml, I think it's already configured there as well.  I have

    <keybind key="W-Tab">
      <action name="ShowMenu">
        <menu>client-list-combined-menu</menu>
      </action>
    </keybind>

in mine.

As tiling + composit keeps failing:

Dual head desktop, (2x1366)x768 <- I'll never ever buy something in Mediamarkt again without checking the REAL stats online first...)

Compiz Standalone:
+ Grid plugin for manual tiling.
+ Expo plugin, as I sometimes lose track if more than 10 windows are open
+ Desktop board plugin for viewport switching

Emerald
+ thin borders, just enough for title+buttons
+ some transparency, because I love transparency

Terminator
+ tiling terminal windows
+ looks like this: |-|  | (two smaller tiles vertically arranged and a bigger one on the right)
+ transparent (80%, sometimes 90% opaq), just to to see the wallpaper a bit.
+ Group hotkey, to send the same command to all the windows (monitoring multiple servers)
+ terminator almost always sits on the upper viewport on the left screen maximized

XFCE4 Panel
+ vertical
+ on the right border
+ very small, just enough to display small icons
+ application menu button
+ shortcut to my 3-tile-terminator profile
+ shortcut to geany opening a set of conf, log and doku files
+ Taskbar buttons, icons only, auto-grouped
+ tray section
+ analog clock

Gnome-Do
+ I'm still keeping it, as it is faster than the menu driven application launcher in the panel and simpler than runners, as I can just type the name and hit enter
+ Pidgin integration: Type the name of the contact and start chatting
+ Kupfer somehow doesn't really do what it is supposed to

gmrun
+ well... it's mighty. Alt+F2.

Thunar:
+ Nothing to see here. I'd use Nautilus, because of all the features (if gui, then gui), but the gnome deps...

# Viewports #
+ three viewports (workspaces) vertically, so I have a wall with 3x2 screens.
+ works well with the desktop wall and expo.

Upper viewport
+ Left:
   - maximized Terminator with three tiles
   - floating whatever I need there
   - Fullscreen videos
   - thunderbird when I use it, usually in the tray
+ Right
   - usually the browser maximized, if there are no other windows to tile around it
   - whatever I'm doing that requires a GUI goes there first
Middle viewport:
+ free most of the time
+ gets populated when I have a special project that should not be interrupted by casual browsing/chatting/playing games

Lower viewport:
+ Right
   - Terminator in fullscreen (not maximized, real fullscreen) running htop
+ Left
   - empty unless I have system monitoring to do
   - sometimes I have static windows with terminal output sitting there, eg. the vpn connection to the lab, one terminator per task, not tiled inside terminator
    - most network analysis happens there (e.g. nmap)

XFCE4 notifier:
+ It's the only sane way of being notified about new pidgin messages.
+ Maybe I'll manage to pay attention to the blinking pidgin tray icon and ditch this thing completely

Misc:
+ I often ignore my concept, if the situation demands it. It's just the way I automatically do things.
+ I am a very visual-driven person, most of my thinking is symbolized with items either arranged on a plane or in a room.
+ I rarely see my wallpaper, the screen is usually crowded with windows, that's why I add transparency where it's not a problem.
+ The more windows are open, the more tty sessions I use directly. Nothing emits more peace, than a tmux session in tty1.
+ Once I found a tray that doesn't suck, I'll drop the panel.

i feel, i've reached there! wm nirvana? :-)

for the past few years, i have been using ratpoison and screen. eyecandy is simply a distraction - no tray, no background, no background tasks, nothing, nada! wherever else i go, i seem to come back here. ratpoison is setup simply - all windows maximise, no frames, nothing. meta-w gives me a window list anytime. meta-. gives me the menu. changed my meta-key to "pause" at the top-right corner of my keyb. keybinds are somewhat similar to #! shortcuts.

very easy to carry my $HOME with me, as i travel around.

recently, replaced screen with tmux. thinking of trying scrotwm, but haven't had the time to rtfm and can't understand the def keybinds. could do with some starter tips.