Monthly Archives: October 2008

Psuedo Window Tiling with Openbox

Unlike my old lap­top with its 15.4″ screen and max­i­mum res­o­lu­tion of 1024×768, I don’t always run with win­dows max­i­mized on the new lap­top (widescreen, 14.1″, 1280×800). That means I’ve got a lot more room to move win­dows around and use my screen smartly. I’ve been work­ing on ways to do that, and found that some sort [...]
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Broken Operating Systems: OS X and gtk-​​style Linux

This was a orig­i­nally going to be an Aaron–bait­ing rant about how bro­ken Mac OS X is. But as I got to think­ing about it, I real­ized Linux deserved to be hit in the head with the bat, too.  So here goes: Mac OS X and Linux’s gtk are bro­ken. Any time basic file nav­i­ga­tion with the key­board, whether in a dia­log [...]
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