I haven't used Xmonad myself but with all the talking why hasn't someone ported it to OS X (Cocoa) yet?
Customizing the Mac to behave like Xmonad
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Re: Customizing the Mac to behave like Xmonad
#62Earlier 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…
ThinkPad X1 Carbon (which is their answer to the MacBook Air - similar size to the 13", but 14" with more horizontal resolution), or the 12.5" X230, which is a bit heavier, but has 60WHr+ battery options and IPS display (both missing from the MacBook Air).
Re: Customizing the Mac to behave like Xmonad
#63Comment to the author: use cmd-` while you are command tabbing if you go too far! Similarly useful, hold cmd-tab and it will stop at the end. Also, cmd-esc if you decide not to switch.
I used a 15" MBP for a long time without missing a tiling window manager that much... but the problem was exaggerated when I started using a 27" imac. So I looked around and started using spectacle. Great utility. I use Quicksilver's "open application" custom triggers to get the app switching behavior, so I finally have a use for F15-F19 (on the very left side of my keyboard)! It has made a big difference for me.
One problem I would like to solve is switching between multiple emacsen. I have an 8:00-5:00 job and work on my own stuff after that, and I like to keep my buffer lists separate (so I can't just use multiple frames). Therefore, I open emacs again from the terminal and I wish I could switch between them with quicksilver's shortcut. Alas, quicksilver always brings up the first one. Has anyone dealt with this?
Re: Customizing the Mac to behave like Xmonad
#64A slight tangent, but dmenu-4.5 uses token matching, which allows you to search somewhat fuzzily: "foo rb" will match "foobarbaz". How it looks compared to Alfred and co. is a matter of one's aesthetic... Disclosure: I'm a dmenu developer.
I've always wondered -- is it suckless as in suck less than something else, or as in without suck?
Re: Customizing the Mac to behave like Xmonad
#65A slight tangent, but dmenu-4.5 uses token matching, which allows you to search somewhat fuzzily: "foo rb" will match "foobarbaz". How it looks compared to Alfred and co. is a matter of one's aesthetic... Disclosure: I'm a dmenu developer.
I've always wondered -- is it suckless as in suck less than something else, or as in without suck?
It says right on the suckless.org home page, "software that sucks less," so probably the first.
Re: Customizing the Mac to behave like Xmonad
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Counter-anecdote: I have a T520 and I'm perfectly happy with it. Get the full HD screen, it's worth it. I admit that I'd prefer the old 4:3 screen size, but that's just not the way of the world anymore.
Re: Customizing the Mac to behave like Xmonad
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've always wondered -- is it suckless as in suck less than something else, or as in without suck?
It says right on the suckless.org home page, "software that sucks less," so probably the first.
I've been saying that wrong in my head for a long time now. Thank you :-).
Re: Customizing the Mac to behave like Xmonad
#68Is 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...
On the "move window / switch focus to workspace N" front, there's VirtuaWin (http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net/). You need to set up the Alt-1, Shift-Alt-1, etc. keybindings, but it works quite well.
Re: Customizing the Mac to behave like Xmonad
#69A slight tangent, but dmenu-4.5 uses token matching, which allows you to search somewhat fuzzily: "foo rb" will match "foobarbaz". How it looks compared to Alfred and co. is a matter of one's aesthetic... Disclosure: I'm a dmenu developer.
Thank goodness; been waiting for this forever.
I actually ported dmenu to OCaml solely to add this feature: http://technomancy.us/152
Re: Customizing the Mac to behave like Xmonad
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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 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
> Every computer can do this, its not a function of hardware.
I'm dying to know how a computer in ACPI S3† can execute my ACPI scripts. The only way for it to work is for some hardware to trigger an event that will kick it out of S3, and PCs old and new that do so on external display plug are (if any) apparently rare enough that I never encountered them, so currently I consider them devoid of this feature.
Even if it were so, this would require, as you say, and again as I did already for cases 2) 3) and 4), writing scripts, and such scripts are non-trivial. Calling xrandr (which of course needs DISPLAY and some X magic cookies) from an ACPI handler (which runs as root while the X session runs as you) requires interesting piles of trickery. Then timing issues come in, as drivers take time adjusting themselves and you have no way of knowing when they're ready (in the meantime e.g xrandr redurns/does crap). Also, interestingly enough, all sorts of fun stuff happens on VTs when the primary display vanishes to be thrown into an external one.
I long for the day when KMS supports multiple monitors and I can have VTs left and right, and I can run my favorite phrakture-like no-X setup on bare metal (and my web browser in a lightweight Wayland), but that day is far away so that setup stays in a VM.
† i.e CPU off == no power at all, only RAM and components registered for waking like USB controllers have reduced power.
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