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Minor geeky notes
Jul. 27th, 2005 09:12 pmFirefox users: If you are using the Tabbrowser extension, try uninstalling it and giving Tab Mix a shot instead—it seems to have most of the functionality (it now does everything I wanted from my tabbed browsing extension, anyway), but is free of Tab Browser's godawful sluggishness (hopefully it'll prove more stable, too).
Internet Explorer users: What on Earth are you thinking? Go get Firefox now. Then get Tab Mix.
Also, I decided to forego Gnome in favour of Xfce for my laptop, because Gnome is kind of large and clunky (I don't mind it on my desktop, which is fairly powerful and has oodles of space, but I don't want it on this machine), and Xfce is nice. Other than being a much lighter but very usable desktop environment, its window manager already supports the X.org Composite extension—of course, not many applications are able to make use of features like transparency yet (I want a terminal emulator with a transparent content window, damn it!), but the foundation is there; window drop shadows are there (and other than being eye candy, they do add a visual cue to window layering ... extremely minor detail, I concede, but I quite like it); and the dock is transparent. (Which doesn't do much, but shows that, yes, it does indeed work.)
Addendum: skippy (or skippy-xd for us with working composite managers; Gentoo users, get your ebuilds here for the nonce) is kind of neat; an Exposé-like program.
Internet Explorer users: What on Earth are you thinking? Go get Firefox now. Then get Tab Mix.
Also, I decided to forego Gnome in favour of Xfce for my laptop, because Gnome is kind of large and clunky (I don't mind it on my desktop, which is fairly powerful and has oodles of space, but I don't want it on this machine), and Xfce is nice. Other than being a much lighter but very usable desktop environment, its window manager already supports the X.org Composite extension—of course, not many applications are able to make use of features like transparency yet (I want a terminal emulator with a transparent content window, damn it!), but the foundation is there; window drop shadows are there (and other than being eye candy, they do add a visual cue to window layering ... extremely minor detail, I concede, but I quite like it); and the dock is transparent. (Which doesn't do much, but shows that, yes, it does indeed work.)
Addendum: skippy (or skippy-xd for us with working composite managers; Gentoo users, get your ebuilds here for the nonce) is kind of neat; an Exposé-like program.
