On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Matthias-Christian Ott
The rest of my environment consits of several urxvts/uxterms and firefox.
(Please forgive me if the following attempt to extrapolate from your brief response is off target.) It sounds like you are a "dyed in the wool" command-line user. Further, it sounds like you are saying that not only do you _not_ run a mainstream window manager but also that you choose _not_ to run any of the components associated with a mainstream GUI desktop environment. I too am a command-line devotee though I run most of my shells within emacs. That said I am happy to run bits of the gnome GUI in a single bar across the top of my screen (gnome panel and a handful of applets). Within that panel I use dzen2 to displays what would otherwise appear on a title bar if I chose to have my windows so decorated. Again in that panel I have Mod4-p bound run dmenu for launching programs. And much as I love tiling window managers in general and xmonad in particular I still appreciate the Gnome Workspace Switcher's visual presentation of my 9 workspaces. (A picture can truly be worth many key strokes and much searching.) Bottom-line: even after replacing my window manager I find that a desktop environment still offers many reusable components that I would never think of reinventing. I encourage you to read the wiki pages on xmonad integration with Gnome and/or KDE. (I use Gnome because it is Ubuntu's default environment and therefore best supported under that distribution.) /john