StumpWM Keybindings

Here are some application launchers that do not conflict with the default StumpWM keybindings.

(stumpwm:define-key stumpwm:*root-map* (stumpwm:kbd "d") "exec icedove")
(stumpwm:define-key stumpwm:*root-map* (stumpwm:kbd "T") "exec tor-browser-en")
(stumpwm:define-key stumpwm:*root-map* (stumpwm:kbd "P") "exec keepass")
(stumpwm:define-key stumpwm:*root-map* (stumpwm:kbd "C") "exec icecat")
(stumpwm:define-key stumpwm:*root-map* (stumpwm:kbd "V") "exec vlc")
(stumpwm:define-key stumpwm:*root-map* (stumpwm:kbd "s") "exec slock")
(stumpwm:define-key stumpwm:*root-map* (stumpwm:kbd "W") "exec iceweasel")

The difference between T60 ATI and Intel GPU

This is the ATI chip outlined in red.

This next picture shows the board without a discrete chip.

I would ask the seller if the photo is real or stock.

Configurations

I prevented Emacs from automatically scrolling ERC, yesterday: turned on erc-scrolltobottom-mode. I put this in my .ercrc, but I haven’t left IRC to test it: (erc-scrolltobottom-enable).

Today, I exported an NFS directory and renamed my virtual machines to client and server on a blag.local domain.

Mounting the NFS directory.

The mounted NFS directory is outlined in red.

Fully qualified domain name at login.

Emacs Dired Human-Readable File Sizes

(setq dired-listing-switches "-alh")

How to prevent emacs from showing the splash screen

Alternatively, press Q to quit the startup screen.

The GNU of Life, the Universe and Everything

Emacs‘ splash screen is enable by default, even if it’s started with a argument, like opening a file. So the solution was always in the splash screen but you’ll find out how to remove the splash screen using the essencial dot emacs file

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Trying “Linux”

For those people who are curious about “Linux”, Cygwin/X is a great way to experience GNU without losing their current Windows setup, leaving Windows to boot another OS or sharing their RAM with a virtual machine. It’s also great at work for GNU users if they have the freedom to use Cygwin¹ at work. It gives new users a chance to use the command line in ways that cmd.exe doesn’t support, and it gives a chance to explore a GNU filesystem. There are a whole lot of the same software packages available for Cygwin/X and Cygwin Ports: Emacs, GIMP, Inkscape, Calligra (won’t open for me), etc, so these applications can be integrated with a libre software environment—opening and saving files to and from the home directory, updating them all at once with setup.exe or apt-cyg, and so forth.

¹ pronounced “sig-win”, named after the constellation Cygnus since it had the letters g-n-u

GNU Emacs icon

A sideways Emacs icon looked like the GNU horns to me, so I gave it a face:

Here is the source. The original Emacs icon had a GPLv3 license.

Maximizing and Positioning Emacs

At work, I found myself maximizing Emacs horizontally and putting it at the bottom of the screen, so I decided to set this up to automate itself after Emacs starts. According to the Display Settings, I set the following elisp in a 1280 x 1024 resolution with normal icons on the taskbar:

(set-frame-width (selected-frame) 154)
(set-frame-position (selected-frame) 8 388)

It’s like you need to give a little distance from the left, so the frame border isn’t off the screen. The same is true to get it plumb with the very top of the screen. Here is a shrunk screen capture (click to double its size):

Horizontally-split window with init file and identica-mode

PS—Some of this didn’t work, so I used CLI arguments instead.

identica-mode

I can’t use Gwibber because the scrollbar is way too sensitive, and clicking underneath it doesn’t move it at all. I can’t use Choqok because my GTK theme doesn’t make the links legible, and I can’t figure out how to change the link colors for KDE apps in a GTK theme. Those are why I needed identica-mode again, and I finally got it working with oauth.el because freenode’s #emacs told me it wasn’t something that I manually called. Yes, I cloned identica-mode’s git to avoid some bug that they still hadn’t fixed a couple weeks ago, and I put it and oauth.el in a new elisp directory in ~/.emacs.d; so I could load that directory without loading a bunch of bloat. I copied the directories to ~/.emacs.d and cleaned out the files that weren’t *.el in the “default directory” (elisp).

Adapting Keyboard & Software

I think I’ll just karate-chop the Ctrl keys instead of keeping the left swapped with Caps Lock and swapping the right with something else. Vim’s movement keys aren’t exactly intuitive either: four keys in a line—the left two go up and down; why couldn’t the I and M buttons be up and down, J and K left and right? Another thing that Emacs had against it was its term mode: anything blue was illegible. Except for Cygwin, I could make directories cyan, but output would stay blue and unintelligible. I found this solution: (setq ansi-term-color-vector [unspecified "black" "red3" "lime green" "yellow3" "DeepSkyBlue3" "magenta3" "cyan3" "white"]). That’s also necessary for 24’s tsdh-dark theme.

The industry should encourage Dvorak for new computer users, but that would obviously present a problem for those users when they use most other computers. There hasn’t been enough study on Dvorak and QWERTY to justify a shift, but surely a keyboard designed to slow down typists (QWERTY) should have began phasing out a few decades ago. Split keyboards should become another standard.