Though soon, in the twilight of Xorg, I am going to switch back. – What sucks a bit is that I can’t go into console, and betimes I do miss some conveniences of my former tiler XMonad, since I am used to that. Almost everything I left pretty default this time, including desktop theme and (solarized?) color scheme, and no extra transparency. So in last fall I was lucky to grab the Manjaro community i3 edition though it works out of the box for me, it’s meanwhile discontinued. Yes, and it’s currently not Arch Linux itself but the popular Arch derivate Manjaro, which comes also as rolling release and got the package manager pacman (I don’t need the extra ones), while being able to use both (most) official Arch packages as well as Arch User Repo stuff and the wiki resources.įurther, I was curious about the window manager i3, since tiling is essential for me – in case of turning to (pure) wayland with sway one day. so far I can approve that for daily tasks and imge editing, just video streaming occasionally lags at high resolutions. In the name of anti-obsolescence I moved my main computer from a server bolide to another oldtimer, a second hand Intel dual core Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo micro tower with 4 GB RAM from 2008, which was said to be silent, “green” and popular for office work. It can be switched to full screen via the hotkey +, hiding the bottom workspace bar, and looks far better in action than in a still! Intermezzo from my soon closing Somnambul project: This is a screenshot of one of my favorite terminal applications when being idle at the desktop: the Perl script asciiquarium invoking colorful nice animations made of letters.
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