I finally got around to installing Arch on my desktop yesterday. At first I installed XFCE, and then Xmonad, and then I decided to dump XFCE altogether and just use Xmonad for all my computing needs. Xmonad is tricky to configure, so I only have a very basic xmonad.hs file (it’s the template config file found on the Xmonad wiki pages, minus the parts that give me errors on Xmonad 0.8.1).
I think tiling window managers like Xmonad are really the only way to go. I was getting sick of doing ALT+MOUSE2 to resize my windows to make most of my screen real estate on XFCE. I really like how my windows perfectly line up into neat groups. I haven’t even touched any of the great extensions out there for Xmonad yet.
In other news: I started using vimperator. It’s really neat once you spend 1 day with it. The biggest advantage for me: I don’t have to click on History -> Recently closed tabs -> tab to open up a tab I accidentally deleted. All I do instead now is just type ‘u’! And I don’t do CTRL+T, CTRL+K to do my searches — instead it’s now just ‘t searchterm’ or ‘t a packagename’ (where the ‘a’ is a keyword for the Arch Package Repository search engine). Woohoo!
Arch+Xmonad is one sweet combination, personally prefer conkeror myself to vimperator, but for normal firefox right clicking on the tab bar will give an option to undo last close
Comment by notthinking — February 8, 2009 @ 5:13 am