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Experimenting with window managers

July 18th, 2009 pesa

My current window manager that I’m using, and have used for the last two years, is called wmii (window manager improved 2).  Not going into details with wmii, but I experimented and “hacked” around with it quite much in the beginning. The problem was though, while I was doing this I couldn’t keep my regular applications running (browser, mail/chat client, etc.) since I needed to restart the X session regularly.

Then I found out about Xephyr, which basically is an X server which targets a window of another X server as its framebuffer. Making it possible to run a window manager inside of another window manager, for instance.

Xephyr is a great tool to use even if you’re not developing. For instance, it could be used to try out different kinds of window managers. There are quite many out there worth taking a look at.
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About that time, eh chaps?

July 18th, 2009 pesa

… Right-oh!

It has now been quiiite a while since my last (and only) post, and after a couple of pushes from my friend wildcard I’ve decided to give this blogging thing another go.

There is always some cool things that you learn along the road that is worth telling about. I just need to take the time to write them down in order to share them :)

I already got a couple of ideas of some topics that I want to write about, and wildcard has been kind to give me a couple of hints as well. So, stay tuned, there might pop-up some posts in the near future (and by future I do not mean as in ~2 years… I hope ;))

P.S. For you who did not get the initial reference, it’s from the “End of the World” flash movie. D.S.

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