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+#dotfiles
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+##Current Utilities
+
+###MATE
+i'm using mate as a backend to handle all
+that dconf garbage etc. apart from a few
+daemons, everything is launched from
+mate-session
+
+###herbstluftwm
+i was using awesome for a while, but dealing with all
+that lua got annoying. herbstluftwm has the really
+interesting concept of allowing manual tiling of frames
+and then providing automatic layouts for inside the
+frames. in theory, it's the best of both worlds, but
+gets kind of confusing, so i've just set the layout
+to always be max so frames basically just have multiple
+tabs for me that can by cycled through. it's really
+neat for saving screen space! (try splitting a screen
+with both an editor and a terminal on one side and
+all your documentation on the other)
+
+###urxvt
+yay for mouseless copy-pasta!
+if you've never seend it, check out
+[urxvt-perls](https://github.com/muennich/urxvt-perls).
+
+###ranger
+yay for everything about ranger!
+
+###sxiv
+were it not for being completely cut off from any
+file management, sxiv would be the best thing to
+ever happen to images. i've been looking into
+adding a feature of some sort for it to communicate
+selections to the outside world.
+
+###pentadactyl
+if you've never heard of it, try pentadactyl NOW.
+suddenly a browser is no longer a thing that necessarily
+breaks your workflow when you have to refer to it for
+information. oh, and try [setting your hint keys](http://5digits.org/pentadactyl/faq#faq-hintkeys).
+
+###dunst/dmenu/stalonetray/compton/dzen2/nitrogen
+useful things all around. i haven't bothered with
+any fancy-pants dmenu configs just yet. maybe after
+finishing up with dzen2 and (maybe) switching to
+zsh (now that i have an ssd and completions don't
+take forever to load).