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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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Goodbye Big-bloated-OTR-button

September 25th, 2007 pesa

Are you using the Off-the-Record messaging plugin for Pidgin?
Ever get annoyed by the big bloated button?
How many times have you accidently hit that button and annoyed your friends who doesn’t use this neat plugin, which in turn starts asking you what the heck is going on?

If your answer is yes in any of these questions, then this post might be of interest to you!
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