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Why
What do we want
Accessible with a single key stroke
Available on all virtual desktops
No Title, No border
Transparent background
Not shown on task-bar, task switch, or Alt-Tab
And finally, nice animation
Why
Well we already have many quake like terminals already:
Kuake
Yakuake
Tilda
Stjerm
But what if you don’t like loading the whole KDE libraries to get
this? Or, what if all those programs lacks some […]
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Why
The target
What we need
Yeal, show me the code!
Why
If you have 10+ GUI applications running and spend lots of time
dragging them to the right place, you need a tiling window manager.
On contrary to most modern window systems, which allow you to put one
window on top of another, and mess up your work space, a tiling window
manager […]
Thanks to my wife, I’ve got a new LCD: Dell 2007FP.
I know wide screen are popular these days, but I still prefer this one: It comes with 1600×1200, which is much better than the 1650×1050 of 22′ wide screen LCDs for programming. I know the 1960×1200 24′ is good, but at this time the price […]
Well I said I could rotate my LCD after upgrade my box, it turns to be really handy.
To get benefit from that, the first thing you’ll need is a monitor that supports rotate. I’m using a Dell 1905FP, and there is a lot of others that could do this.
Then you’ll need a good video card […]
I can use xev to see what key I just pressed. Also the Emacs
C-h k runs the command describe-key
which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `help’.
It is bound to C-h k, <f1> k, <help> k, <menu-bar> <help-menu> <describe> <describe-key>, <menu-bar> <help-menu> <describe> <describe-key-1>.
(describe-key key &optional untranslated up-event)
Display documentation of the function invoked by key.
key […]
Stay with fvwm. Ratpoison is not configurable enough. Found PLWM. Maybe I can write my own window manager in Python?
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