the arc of software bends towards understanding
Another half year, another Ubuntu upgrade. This upgrade went essentially smoothly: the only things that stopped working were my xbindkeys bindings for volume and suspend, which were easy to fix.
If you previously had:
#Volume Up
"pactl set-sink-volume 0 -- +5%"
m:0x10 + c:123
Mod2 + XF86AudioRaiseVolume
this syntax no longer works: you must place the double dash earlier in the command, as so:
My usual laptop setup is I have a wide monitor, and then I use my laptop screen as a secondary monitor. For a long time, I had two XMonad layouts: one full screen layout for my laptop monitor (I use big fonts to go easy on the eyes) and a two-column layout when I’m on the big screen.
But I had an irritating problem: if I switched a workspace from the small screen to the big screen, XMonad would still be using the full screen layout, and I would have to Alt-Tab my way into the two column layout. To add insult to injury, if I moved it back, I’d have to Alt-Tab once again.