Musca Window Manager Review

my thoughs on a great wm for X, in fact I use it.
sorry it cut out, we had hardly any time plus i've been awake for about 40 hours now
i hope for better, longer videos in the future

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• musca
• window
• manager
• dwm
• ratpoison
• Xorg
• windows
• linux
• freebsd
• bsd
• gnu
• tiling
• stacking
• floating

[djdubadelic]

yeah im on awesome and i know what u mean with syntax change, might try musca one of these days, does it allow on-the-fly recompiling? next time throw in a demo vid (with recordmydesktop or somethin) of the wm, keep going thanks

[kolbycrouch]

it doesn't have on-the-fly recompiling, but since musca only requires make to ran for compiling it, you could make a very trivial script to do it, in fact i have one made if you ever need it, and i will record next time, thanks for the suggestion.

[013108today]

I understand being minimal, but you need a bigger apartment mate.

[mathume]

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[thisusernameistaken2]

16?! Did your parents feed you growth hormones?

[quickfished]

Was this recorded in the washroom?

[aisbaa]

It would be great if some one make video tutorial on how to use musca..

p.s. how to un_minimize minimized windows ?

[ilembitov]

Anyways, making things visual and narrated this way is a good things. There is a plenty of articles and other kinds of written reviews, and not so many proper screencast, so you're taking a right direction. Just try experimenting a little more.

[ilembitov]

Actually, I would doubt how adequate it is to review something like a WM in a form of a video podcast. It's pretty hard to understand the things you're talking about, like the layout system, or how the manual tiling works, or how one performs the configuration of musca. It's all pretty concrete, and so should you be, making everything you do illustrative. I would suggest you make a screencast next time. You might even wanna try to remake this one in a screencast.

[siljrath]

luv yer tight mini review. more o that kinda vid please. ;)

i been with 'nix since '04. tried ion, dwm, xmonad, jwm, openbox, etc etc etc. yet to try musca, ya didnt really tell me much more than i already read up n found out, but it was good ot hear someone talk about it. also pleases me to see the next generation (you teens) taking up open source software. amen bruvvas! :D

[chobrocoli]

Well, an electron is so much lighter than a proton, but they are still both light...

[warezakias1admin]

But musca is so much lighter.