[Locke]

I've noticed that the more time I spend focused on work the more out of date I get with the cutting edge.

I'm on a 3 or 4 year old thinkpad (love the keyboard!) running gentoo linux. I use fvwm, xterm, gnu screen, chromium, firefox, ruby, rails, postgresql, mysql... Blah, blah, blah depending on the project.

But, please, don't copy me unless you want to be sofour years ago! : )

[pyre]

xterm is 'so four years ago?' I don't remember a time when xterm was 'sexy' and I've running Linux since 2000.

I'd be interested in good resources on fvwm though. I know that you can do a lot to customize it, but whenever I tried looking into it, I never knew where to start. fvwm? fvwm95? fvwm-crystal? Are they forks? Add-ons on top of fvwm? Which are/aren't maintained anymore?

[Locke]

My use of fvwm has become so minimal that I'd probably be better off switching to one of the tiling window managers.

I have chromium occupying an entire page of my virtual desktop with no window decorations. On another I have firefox (mostly for development with firebug). On the others I have 2 xterms side by side running screen.

For every project, I create a new screen config which defaults to opening / launching whatever I need for that project. For example, a rails project might have several zsh's already cd'ed to the models, views, and controllers directories (and probably the public javascripts and stylesheets directories). I'll also have script/console and either mysql or psql running.

In fvwm, I have a menu with an entry for each project that launches xterm and starts / reconnects to the right gnu screen session.

I have a bunch of keyboard shortcuts for navigating my virtual desktops and moving xterms around, etc. I only really use the mouse when I'm working with one of the browsers. Another reason I'd probably be better off switching to a tiling manager.

The nice thing about fvwm is that you can arrive at something that's highly personalized. I'm really efficient / comfortable with fvwm now, but it took a long time to get here. I'm not sure I'd start over with it.

[pyre]

You only use your session for your work? Or are you only talking about the config on your work computer?