Sam Danielson

After using the wmii-3 window manager for a while I began to notice that I really didn’t use very many kde-suite applications. The notable exception was konqueror but I have found that I now prefer nautilus (with the—no-desktop option) for its speed. Opening documents in new windows also lets me leverage wmii’s dynamic window management better. I used to hate it when apps opened new windows, preferring tabs or almost any alternative besides having to manage another window on the desktop. Wmii made me realize that most window managers are broken. Apps shouldn’t have to manage tabs. Wmii isn’t perfect. It really needs a second level of tags or perhaps a tree style setup to really be able to replace tabs in the browser. I’ve read Xmonad does something like that. I’ll have to get around to installing that one day.

I’ve also given up konsole for gnome-terminal because it loads as fast as xterm and I really like the highlighting feature for copying or opening urls.

All this gnome love provoked me to start with a fresh install of Ubuntu. I later found a coffee shop in Montreal that had free wifi so I could get my favorite apps up and running. Why do hotels always have unusable Internet connections? Anyway, I can’t think of anything else I need to install for the moment so I figured I kill some time with this post.

PS. I forgot to plug the cafe with complementary wifi. It’s called Pause Cafe. Google it.