August 9, 2008 by Vincent
You see:
I made some changes I planned on for a while. The biggest one is the switch form xmobar to dzen+conky-cli. Much more versatile. Also i cleaned up my xmonad.hs. It’s just how I wanted.
All my configs are found here.
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August 6, 2008 by Vincent
I was bored a couple of days ago. I installed xmonad and everything worked like it schould. So I started browsing the ArchLinux wiki searching for something new to install. I heard about zsh-completion being wonderfull but I never understould what zsh was. Zsh is a shell, an alternative to bash. I never had problems with bash but I never founf it really good. I liked it’s completion but I heard zsh’s completion was better.
Zsh is in ArchLinux’ extra repository. You can change from shell using the usermod command. You just do
usermod -s /bin/zsh USERNAME
You have to login and logout to activate the shell. Basic configuration is done in .zshrc. It works like .bashrc with some other commands. My .zshrc is bits and pieces from other people and form my .bashrc. You can find my .zshrc on my git branch. Gentoo’s documentation on zsh is rather good.
Since I now have succesfully installed and configured zsh I am looking for a new project, anyone tips? And also, i would love to see your .zshrc
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August 4, 2008 by Vincent
From today I am on a different server. About 1,5 years ago I registered www.vincentkriek.nl for the first time. It was a sale wich gave me one year hosting and the domain for 1 euro. Then I wanted more so I started looking for a nice reseller hosting plan. And I found it at www.sorcer.nl.
Now i got a decent control panel, DirectAdmin instead of a home made thing that my previous ISP had, my email hasn’t got a hour delay and I can register different domains on one hosting package. So far I am extremely happy about sorcer. They respond very fast have a nice site, and are not too expensive. They are third in the top 25 of dutch hosting providers.
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August 3, 2008 by Vincent
Last week, I wrote that i was still looking for a window manager that I really like. I have tried all the mayor tiling ones and I finally settled with Xmonad. Yes, the window manager with the 300Mb haskell compiler dependecies. I’m okay with it now.
The way xmonad handles two (or more) screens is the way all window managers should do it. You have one set of workspaces. The screens are portals to these tags. So you can have workspace one on screen one and workspace two on screen two. Then you can have workspace two on screen one and workspace four on screen two. A picture to demonstrate:
The configuration file is easy to edit and I like it a lot. Even more so then the config file of awesome. It sounds scary to edit a haskell file but haskell is a nice, easy to understand language. My config file is found here.
So the reason I sticked with it were the multiple screen support, config file and the simplicity. I know a 300mb dependecy for a ~1 mb window manager is not really KISS but the way XMonad works is really KISS. That is because only manages your windows. You can choose youre own panel(if any). I like it!
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