On 11 October 2012 04:53, Jacek Generowicz
Pablo Olmos de Aguilera C. writes:
and after a while dzen was totally filled, so I couldn't keep track of everything.
Well, yes, as the number of workspaces grows, it does become more difficult to keep track of things. But it's much *more* difficult to keep track of all those things if you have to stuff them all on a mere 7 workspaces with names like 'files' and 'various'.
Of course it's hard if you aren't in my mind O_o. I know perfectly what's in each workspace.
I totally admit that XMonad is just a crutch I need because of the limitations of my brain. My poor little brain just can't keep track of all of this (certainly not efficiently), if yours can, then I send a little nod of admiration in your general direction.
But I find it hard to believe that anyone who can keep track of N (for large values of N) windows on a single workspace, would find it *more* difficult to keep track of the same windows, when spread out over several named workspaced containing related windows. But then experience tells me that people's brains can be wired up completely differently.
The thing is that actually I don't have many windows opened =P. Remember that I do power off my computer.
But seriously, rebooting my computer feels like taking all my belongings out of my house and then putting them back into place. I can't fathom why anyone would want to do that voluntarily.
I don't have a workstation, only my laptop and a 24'' monitor. So I have to turn off my computer every day.
Huh?
I don't have a workstation, only my laptop and a 26'' monitor. I have a laptop as my main workstation precisely to enable me NOT TO SWITCH IT OFF AT ALL, even when I have to move physically to another country. Yes, I might suspend or hibernate it, but switch it off? Why on earth would you want/need to do that?
Hibernate has never worked ok with my laptops and I move my laptop almost everyday. Even though, I proposed myself (once again) to try to get it working! (I have faith on TuxOnIce).
configuration to open the pane configuration I want. Sadly, that's impossible to do with xmonad.
Granted, I haven't found anything like that in XMonad, but then I haven't really looked, because I don't really need it, becasue I never switch my computer off.
Afaik it's impossible =(.
Thanks for your kind words. They brightened up my morning.
Was that ironic?
No, why?
I interpreted your remarks as laughing with me rather than laughing at me. I enjoyed sharing the laugh, and thanked you for sharing it.
<3.
Yep, though some things you have written are good ideas that I'm probably going to implement in the near future.
Cool, it tickles me pink to have some positive influence on people.
You xmonad configuration is really "sui generis", I've seen a lot of them, but no one to that level of details. It's well commented and has the best hotkey configuration I've ever seen. I totally fell in love with it and I'm prolly going to make a big mix between mine and yours.
Oh, thanks, though I'm still used to gmail web interface =(.
That's something else that I find unfathomable. Email is essentially text. To deal with it efficiently, I want to use the most efficient tool I have for dealing with text. That would be the text editor I use daily, and whose actions have been imprinting themselves into the core of my nervous system over the course of many years. Regardless of what your choice of editor is, I can't fathom why you would want to relinquish all that in favour of a slow, cumbersome, inefficient, pointy-clickety interface.
I use the hotkeys which helps a bit, but after started using xmonad and then pentadactyl reaching the mouse it's a pain that I try to avoid at all costs.
OK, maybe managing your mail, as opposed to writing it, is something that only Emacs users would understand/want/appreciate. But *writing* your mail? Surely *everyone* would want to write their mail in their standard text editor, rather than some ad-hoc one. (So that, for example, if you want to prepend the author's initials to each of his quoted lines, there's nothing to wonder about: it just happens naturally.)
Yeah, I somehow do that. In fact this email is being written in a gvim window. I use pentadactyl so after a couple of keystrokes (<C-i>) on a textarea throws me here. The only issue with that is that I still can't make xmonad understand that all these windows should be floating and not tiled =/. I wrote in this list a while ago but every attempt to make a "generic" declaration with a managehook failed.
Personally, I just can't stomach any mail interface that is not Embedded in Emacs. But then Emacs is pretty much my OS.
I don't know if I can "embed" a mail interface in vim (I haven't searched), but I guess that mutt is the closest thing to that. Anyway, once again I felt motivated to get rid of the gmail web interface :) Regards, -- Pablo Olmos de Aguilera Corradini - @PaBLoX http://www.glatelier.org/ http://about.me/pablox/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/pablooda/ Linux User: #456971 - http://counter.li.org/