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Customizing the Mac to behave like Xmonad

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Re: Customizing the Mac to behave like Xmonad

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Post by culturestate »

faulty wrote: post #38
culturestate wrote: post #34

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>How does one use a data projector from an Apple laptop these days? I carry Thunderbolt-to-VGA, DVI, and HDMI adapters with my laptop at all times. It's kind of a pain, to be honest.

Which hardware does use thunderbolt? Never heard of anything that used it. Except for apple stuff, of course.

At the moment, not much - Apple's displays and some third-party external drives. There are announced plans from Sony and Asus (I think) to add it to their laptops toward the end of the year, and Intel is close to adding support to their chipsets. I'm interested to see if Apple's approach (partnering with Intel) will help it avoid Firewire's fate.

Re: Customizing the Mac to behave like Xmonad

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Post by pyre »

josephkern wrote: post #48
pimeys wrote: post #29

I use Arch + Xmonad at work and I simply love it as the OP does. Sometimes I need to work from home and I don't want to keep two laptops here, so I need to use my old 2008 unibody Macbook. Working in OSX with Vim and console is painful after the Linux experience. Installing lots of utilities might help, but I chose to install Ubuntu with Xmonad and after couple of hours I had my favorite environment ready for product…

Thinkpad. Great build quality, Linux friendly.

Depends. I have a X41, which gets flakey with the headphone jack when you put the laptop to sleep (requires a reboot to get it working again). Other than that, I can't remember having any issues with it.

One of the nice things about it was that the volume / brightness hotkeys were hooked into the BIOS so I could use them even when the OS was locked. I believe all ThinkPads are like this. I miss this on my current laptop.

Re: Customizing the Mac to behave like Xmonad

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Post by to3m »

julioc wrote: post #7

Is there anything like xmonad for Windows? Edit: found [some options on wikipedia][1], but maybe you have any other sugestions. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager#3rd_party...

I wrote a program for use with AutoHotKey that helps create tiled layouts. I haven't used xmonad, so I don't know how it compares, but I've found it useful.

https://github.com/tom-seddon/align_window2

If you like align_window2, you might also like dispswitch:

https://github.com/tom-seddon/dispswitch

(dispswitch and align_window2 will coexist.)

Re: Customizing the Mac to behave like Xmonad

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Post by tuananh »

flou wrote: post #43
pudquick wrote: post #3

I see you found SizeUp. That's also my application of choice. But it doesn't look like you did a lot of research into the available choices, or at least didn't bother listing them. Here's but a handful, for others who are interested: ShiftIt: https://github.com/fikovnik/ShiftIt TileWindows: http://www.carsten-mielke.com/tilewindows.html Mercury Mover: http://www.heliumfoot.com/mercurymover/ ... Or if you like mouse c…

I just recently discovered Spectacle and it's really awesome. It's open source and free, doesn't take up a lot of memory. http://spectacleapp.com/ https://github.com/eczarny/spectacle

Great app, however I need to remap some shortcuts, they are not very intuitive though.

Re: Customizing the Mac to behave like Xmonad

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Post by tomlu »

nickbarnwell wrote: post #24
tomlu wrote: post #17

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To chime in here, IMO what sets Tyler apart is that it takes control of a window as soon as it is created, whereas AFAIK all other offerings leave the windows alone until you use keyboard commands to resize them. It is indeed promising, but like you I cannot recommend it to anyone until they have fixed several critical bugs.

Could you elaborate on what some of the bugs you ran into were? I came across it the other day and was eager to try it, but reticent to spend the $10 without a demo (currently in between jobs)

Oh, stuff like windows becoming unmanaged, Tyler becoming disabled until a restart, windows moving around without you wanting them to. It's pretty much an alpha product - don't spend yet, wait a couple months and see how it goes.

Re: Customizing the Mac to behave like Xmonad

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Post by freyrs3 »

lloeki wrote: post #46
jrockway wrote: post #26

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The Linux kernel is capable of commanding individual devices to power off. Run powertop and it will show you what's using power and offer to turn it off. My experience with Thinkpads (from two or three years ago) is that running Windows gives you about 10 hours of battery life while doing essentially nothing, while running Linux gives you 8 hours. Both are so high that it doesn't really matter. My X220 has never run…

> The Linux kernel is capable of commanding individual devices to power off. Run powertop and it will show you what's using power and offer to turn it off Oh I perfectly know that, the problem is that it's manual . With OSX I play a song, soundcard comes alive from its powered off state and plays sound, song stops, soundcard powers down after a little idle timeout. The same goes for the webcam, ethernet board and var…

> Find me a single PC that can do this

Every computer can do this, its not a function of hardware. You'll have to write your own scripts to do it but thats just part of the Arch Linux ethos.

To wake and reconfigure displays on in your example (1), you can poll for ACPI events for on:

    /proc/acpi/ibm/video:video_switch

Re: Customizing the Mac to behave like Xmonad

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Post by peterwiese »

pimeys wrote: post #50
josephkern wrote: post #48

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Thinkpad. Great build quality, Linux friendly.

I've been watching Thinkpads very closely. I used to own X40 until it broke and before 600x (which never broke, but it's kind of old now). What model is preferable nowadays? There are not lots of shops to test them at least in Berlin. I want 13" and lightweight, but still powerful enough laptop. Lots of ram, i7 CPU and a SSD disk. The most important thing is an excellent keyboard and touchpad. I heard Lenovo is not u…

Don't take the t series. Lenovo basically transformed this to pure trash. The only thinkpad series that lives up to ibms quality is the x series. Truthfully I wouldn't by thinkpads anymore. The only notebook you can by nowadays is the MBA.

Re: Customizing the Mac to behave like Xmonad

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Post by peterwiese »

pimeys wrote: post #50
josephkern wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thinkpad. Great build quality, Linux friendly.

I've been watching Thinkpads very closely. I used to own X40 until it broke and before 600x (which never broke, but it's kind of old now). What model is preferable nowadays? There are not lots of shops to test them at least in Berlin. I want 13" and lightweight, but still powerful enough laptop. Lots of ram, i7 CPU and a SSD disk. The most important thing is an excellent keyboard and touchpad. I heard Lenovo is not u…

Don't take the t series. Lenovo basically transformed this to pure trash. The only thinkpad series that lives up to ibms quality is the x series. Truthfully I wouldn't by thinkpads anymore. The only notebook you can by nowadays is the MBA.
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