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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d028ac7 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +#dotfiles + +##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). |