High-Tech Rojak

One thing that I did like about using gnome was that for most things, it was very discoverable. You click a few menus, try this and that. But with something like xmonad, it's much more configurable for sure but you certainly have to know your way around. So after seaching the internet, I've finally had a setup which I pretty much like. Here it is for future reference. For ~/.xmnonad/xmonad.hs: import XMonad import XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog import XMonad.Hooks.ManageDocks import XMonad.Util.Run(spawnPipe) import XMonad.Util.EZConfig(additionalKeys) import System.IO myManageHook = composeAll [ className =? "Gimp" --> doFloat ] main = do xmproc <- spawnPipe "xmobar" xmonad $ defaultConfig { terminal = "urxvt" , modMask = mod4Mask , borderWidth = 3 , manageHook = manageDocks <+> myManageHook <+> manageHook defaultConfig , layoutHook = avoidStruts $ layoutHook defaultConfig ,

Recently a small window manager war broke out at the #archlinux irc channel. Not much to say about it because it's been done dozens of times already, but it did got me interested in trying out a tiling wm again. I've tried xmonad before and liked it quite a bit back then so I thought I'd give it another go. And sure enough I LOVE it.. :P Not having to touch the mouse (or the touchpad which is even worse) at all is a great feeling. You just want to go faster and faster. Then I fired up firefox and lo and behold, I have to use the mouse again. That's a cannot. So I installed the vimperator plugin. Now I can navigate and use firefox just like using my favourite editor.. :D But of course that's just the beginning, I had to look for replacement for a lot of other software I normally use too. So now: 1. pidgin -> finch (ym client) 2. xchat-gnome -> weechat-curses (irc client) 3. evolution -> alpine (mail client) 4. exaile -> herrie (mp3 player) 5. nautilus -&g