Alternative terminal client: top-down terminal tilda

As things develop and you use your computer daily it might happen that you find out that the terminal client you are using gets in the way when it comes down to productivity. I used use lxterminal and gnome-terminal (and even xterm on a rare occasions) but as it is today I have replaced all of them with a nice top-down terminal called tilda.

Explanation: What is tilda?

Tilda is a nice terminal client which can sit on the background of your system. When you press a shortkey it will pop up and disappear once you press the shortkey again. Tilda feels very similar to guake which used to be my default choice in the past. Nowadays guake has however become unusable for me so I switched to tilda instead. I do however encourage to try them both to see which one fits. Continue reading →

How to turn 3D on inside Fluxbox/Openbox?

If you are like me, and like to use lightweight window managers, you will probably face a problem if you want to enable even the basic visual effects  since you cannot run two window managers at the same time (example: Fluxbox conflicts with Compiz). These problems can be however solved quite easily with a program called  xcompmgr which is usually found inside Linux package repositories. Once you install xcompmgr you will have the ability to get some basic effects to your Fluxbox or more demanding effects to your Openbox setup. Continue reading →

Light weight panels: Part I: Tint2

At some occasions a situation may arise where you desire something light weight, yet simple and good looking, alternative to Gnome panel or Kde panel which tend to be getting bigger and more resource demanding as time goes by. In this post a panel called Tint2 is presented with a config that makes it usable in everyday computer life. Continue reading →