On Tue 29.10.2013 19:42:59, Paweł Rumian wrote: > 2013/10/29 Eugen Dedu <eugen.d...@pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr>: > > On 29/10/13 14:31, Paweł Rumian wrote: > > Most of the tasks that you've mentioned above are perfectly doable by > simple programs that adhere to Unix philosophy (that 'do one thing > good' one). > No worries.
Couldn't agree move. For me the gnome-sound-applet does the trick for controlling the master pulseaudio volume, and everything else is done using pavucontrol. > After some time icons seem to be absolutely redundant when you have > command line with tab completion just one keystroke away. > Screensaver? Take this, in 7kb there aren't many things that could > interfere with other programs > http://tools.suckless.org/slock Or back to the good old xscreensaver which has the coolest hack ever: xmatrix ;) > > I exaggerate a bit, but it is like now we cannot buy assembled computers > > anymore. One has to choose each of the pieces to have a computer. It is > > useful to have customisation, but is there a customisation ready to use, > > familiar to people coming from a desktop manager? > > For me it would be like buying an already-built LEGO model ;) > Assembling your own desktop environment can be fun... Oh, and what a fun it is. > > Well, I noticed several people are happy with that. But I am too habituated > > to have some applications at fixed size and at fixed locations, and minimise > > them when I do not need them. > > Perhaps you are among those people who would never adopt to tiling, > but honestly speaking, I doubt it. > Instead of minimizing applications, just switch to a fresh tag... Yeah, that might take a little getting used to. I also starting using mostly two or three tags like I did with workspaces under gnome. But now I always have 10-15 tags open, each with it's specific set of applications. > > Well, I still use gnome-terminal, so the settings are the same as in gnome. > > Still, in gnome there was a bell, now there is not. And "terminal bell" is > > checked on in terminal settings. > > Hmm, a bit strange... Perhaps Gnome configured sound system in some > way at start? > Do you have any sounds at all? I guess you might need to take a llok > at alsa/pulseaudio/whatever else is there... I'd guess it's some kind of xbelld thing within gnome. Regards, Andre -- Andre Klärner
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