Wisdom is the prime thing

I was having difficulty with the “Smart Pinyin” input method for scim: it kept locking up my computer.

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Lately I’ve been using a tiling window manager, which presents a different paradigm for window management. Instead of having to manage your windows yourself, with a tiling window manager, you are given a default arrangement that maximizes your use of screen real estate. As you open and close windows, it places and resizes windows appropriately. » Read the rest of this entry

I’ve been running enlightenment for a few years now, and have never seen any better window manager to make me consider switching. It’s lightweight, configurable, and just plain beautiful. I’ve been using e17 for probably a year now, and it has in general been stable. I upgrade every month or so to the latest cvs build, using the ArchLinux community package.

Lately, though, a couple bugs have been irritating enough to me that I’ve thought about switching. So, today I reloaded e16. It’s still a beautiful window manager. Here is a screenshot of my desktop. And here’s how you set it up.

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