Tag Archives: linux

Switched To Musca

Recently, About 3 weeks ago, I switched to Musca. Musca is a fairly new Tiling Window Manager, which tiles manually, just like Ratpoison. Musca was inspired by Ratpoison and dwm. Though it derives a lot of ideas from those two, it’s written from scratch.
Musca’s defaults are, imo, insane. That is the main reason which stopped [...]

Viruses.. Noes

OMG, i just discovered i have 45 viruses on my Archlinux installation!

Now for the real story, my friend linked that site to me telling me it was school project, i wont humiliate him by mentioning his name here, but he should have known i use linux :P . Notice how it repeatedly tries to make [...]

Testing Flock

Hello, Posting this entry from Flock Aka “The Social Browser” on Archlinux. It is based on firefox and therefore, uses gecko to render it has integrated Facebook, Myspace, Flickr, Twitter, Wordpress, Gmail clients and many more.
Here’s a screenshot :)

^ The window manager is Ratpoison
Blogged with the Flock Browser

rpws for Ratpoison

the rpws script for ratpoison allows you to have multiple workspaces, in place of just one. it is quite easy to use it.
Although it should be already installed, if its not, Heres the rpws script – http://paste.pocoo.org/raw/134472/ . place it in /usr/bin and give it executable permissions ( chmod +x /usr/bin/rpws )
Now, you need to [...]

Ratpoison

Lemme start off with a little quote.
<hullap> <3 xfce.
<QwertyM> xfce’s icon is a rat, ratpoison owns rat :P
:D
Now let me explain what Ratpoison really it
Ratpoison is a simple Window Manager with no fat library dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and no rodent dependence. It is largely modelled after GNU Screen which has done [...]