User:Aerosuidae

From Musca

sean dot pringle at gmail dot com

How I Use Musca

I have two monitors on my main desktop box:

• 24" Dell 1920x1200 - main monitor. It has no panels or dzen of conky or anything like that, however it does run superswitcher on caps lock. My most common frame layouts here are full screen, hsplit 50% or hsplit 70%. I rarely vsplit on this monitor unless I have a heap of terminals running.
• 21" Samsung 1280x1024 - background tasks (IRC, email, music, system stats, etc). It usually runs fbpanel so I have a tray, a clock and a rarely used menu. My frame layout here will be fairly complex to give all the background tasks some screen real estate.

I really only use the same three group names on both monitors: default, work and stuff -- great names, right? :) -- and these are triggered by Mod4 + F1/F2/F3. If I'm really feeling organized while hacking on Musca, I might rename default to dev.

I also run Musca on a Dell laptop and an Asus Eee PC.

My desktop backgrounds are usually:

• Plain black, or
• Invisible behind windows, so I don't care, or
• Displaying some neat Hubble Space Telescope picture.

Favourite apps:

• vim. No, I'm not a hard core vi user. It needs the trailing m.
• irssi because it works and I'm too lazy to go fiddling with other cli alternatives.
• xterm. I change the font and the colours, but that is about it.
• pcmanfm because not everything suits a terminal.
• uzbl when I'm feeling geekish and firefox when I need to get work done.
• xosview because it just works.
• mplayer without any GUI.
• gimp in stacking mode.
• screen just because.