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#1 2010-08-14 10:28:43
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Recommendations for a good desktop setup with XMonad?
So I've been using XMonad for the past few weeks on my netbook and I've really come to enjoy it, but the problem is that I've been running an extremely barebones install which essentially consists of urxvtd, jumanji, and some terminal stuff. Now that I have a desktop (with resources to spare), what I feel like I'm missing is a really nice file browser that keeps it light, and a good 256-color terminal that has a sane method for copy+paste (even with the perl script and autocutsel I'm left absolutely infuriated when I try to move text between applications). I'd like to have a file browser which has a reasonable method for mounting drives though: thunar, even with the volume management plugin, gives me some really bizarre behaviour and it's almost completely unusable for mounting drives and manipulating files on them (after finally getting an external to mount on the command line with pmount thunar saw it, but all the files were completely locked up and I spend 2 hours trying to just access my drive and eventually giving up to go to sleep; when I use the KDE file browser, everything works in a sane manner).
Also, is there a good program using curses that essentially replicates seahorse?
I've got a pretty good quasi widget layer using XMonad.Util.Scratchpad going (with some tricks to spawn multiple windows on the floating layer at once), so any ideas there are welcome.
I guess the problem I have is that I want a setup on my desktop that's comfortable, but not bloated, which is a hugely subjective thing. So please, share any good setups like this!
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#2 2010-08-14 14:31:22
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Re: Recommendations for a good desktop setup with XMonad?
normally I'd recommend pcmanfm, but lately it too has issues in being able to mount and unmount drives. pcmanfm2 is probably going to solve all these issues. I simply use udev rules to auto mount my drives and the cli for my file management. I haven't tried xfm in a long while, maybe you can give it a whirl and see if it helps in mounting etc.
There's no such thing as a stupid question, but there sure are a lot of inquisitive idiots !
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