Ask HN: What do you use? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by pyre » Tue, Nov 09, 2010, 5:31 AM UTC

Locke wrote: post #125

pyre wrote: post #92

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xterm is 'so four years ago?' I don't remember a time when xterm was 'sexy' and I've running Linux since 2000. I'd be interested in good resources on fvwm though. I know that you can do a lot to customize it, but whenever I tried looking into it, I never knew where to start. fvwm? fvwm95? fvwm-crystal? Are they forks? Add-ons on top of fvwm? Which are/aren't maintained anymore?

My use of fvwm has become so minimal that I'd probably be better off switching to one of the tiling window managers. I have chromium occupying an entire page of my virtual desktop with no window decorations. On another I have firefox (mostly for development with firebug). On the others I have 2 xterms side by side running screen. For every project, I create a new screen config which defaults to opening / launching wh…

You only use your session for your work? Or are you only talking about the config on your work computer?

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by swah » Tue, Nov 09, 2010, 1:00 PM UTC

xenophanes wrote: post #127

swah wrote: post #41

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Do you really need the smaller display?

Yes I really need two displays! It generally has aim, skype, irc, torrents, activity monitor, and my terminal windows.

When I try to do something like that the second display just demands attention and I end up less productive than using something like Spaces. Also, a second monitor makes my eyes tired faster, even when I'm not looking at it (just the brightness bugging me).

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by hallmark » Thu, Nov 11, 2010, 10:50 AM UTC

spektom wrote: post #121

It's an idea for startup! WhatYouUse? or WhatOneUses? User registers on a site, then a special agent collects info from his computer. Thus, you can see most used hardware and software, compare, rate, find potential friends (VIM lovers), etc... What do you think?

Not sure about a startup. Maybe a side project.