Tiling Window Management with Fvwm

 
Contents

Why
The target
What we need
Yeal, show me the code!

 
Why
If you have 10+ GUI applications running and spend lots of time
dragging them to the right place, you need a tiling window manager.
On contrary to most modern window systems, which allow you to put one
window on top of another, and mess up your work space, a tiling window
manager […]

rotate the screen

Well I said I could rotate my LCD after upgrade my box, it turns to be really handy.
To get benefit from that, the first thing you’ll need is a monitor that supports rotate. I’m using a Dell 1905FP, and there is a lot of others that could do this.
Then you’ll need a good video card […]

win key and menu key

I can use xev to see what key I just pressed. Also the Emacs
C-h k runs the command describe-key
which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `help’.
It is bound to C-h k, <f1> k, <help> k, <menu-bar> <help-menu> <describe> <describe-key>, <menu-bar> <help-menu> <describe> <describe-key-1>.
(describe-key key &optional untranslated up-event)
Display documentation of the function invoked by key.
key […]

tried ratpoison vs fvwm

Stay with fvwm. Ratpoison is not configurable enough. Found PLWM. Maybe I can write my own window manager in Python?

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