I have been fiddling with my laptop recently and have just set up two must-have programs for minimal users, dzen and dmenu. dzen is a status bar that displays whatever is sent to it on standard input, so it is a useful output for monitoring programs. dmenu displays a simple menu that accepts a list [...]
Filed in Linux, under Arch, dmenu, dzen, Linux, Minimal on May 10, 2008
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It’s amazing how fast we can change, isn’t it? I have gone from loving XFCE and using it exclusively to loving Openbox and using it exclusively in the space of about twenty minutes. I have always been partial to minimalism, and Openbox fits that ideal perfectly. I found that with a few programs and XFCE [...]
Filed in Linux, under Computing, Linux, Minimal, Openbox, Performance, XFCE4 on May 3, 2008
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Soooo, I was bored tonight. I fiddle around with things when I get bored, but just couldn’t think of something to fiddle with. Naturally, this irritated me as I had nothing to do at all, not even homework. I have a book I am reading, but I read after going to bed, that is my [...]
Filed in Linux, under Arch, Computing, Linux, Live DVD, Minimal on April 30, 2008
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