Comment by dryicerx | Hacker News Reader

Comment by dryicerx | Hacker News Reader

I will start.

My two primary work horses include a desktop computer and Thinkpad with Fedora core 10.

Desktop server:

- Gnome -> 8 workspaces on two monitors { Web (regular), Web (work), Emacs, Emacs, Emacs/Compile, Emacs/Debug (GDB/DDD), 4 shells, Thunderbird/IM/IRC/Music }

- Fluxbox on VNC with 4 virtual { 4 Shells, ServerStats, Void, Void }

- Screen session just in case I want to drop in

Laptop:

- Gnome -> 5 Virtual { Web, Emacs, Emacs/Compile/Debug, Void, Thunderbird/IM/Music }

Both:

- Emacs (all instances are new-frame so shared buffers, heavily use gdb-mode, and for compiling)

- Synergy desktop sharing Keyboard/Mouse with Laptop

- Zsh + scripts for common tasks (backups, syncs)

- NFS shares mounted both ways

Other

- Pencil Sketch pad (no rules) as my idea pad, doodling, I keep several of these everywhere

- Post-it's for quick notes

- Emacs/C/C++/Python cheat/reference sheets printed and posted

This is modest if not simple by hacker standards, but it makes me feel comfortable for my usual tasks and most at home

This is modest if not simple by hacker standards

I'm not so sure about that ;-) My setup is simpler than yours:

I do all my development on one machine - a macbook pro (Tiger, haven't got around to upgrading yet).

I run only three applications pretty much all the time, and they're all full-screen - Firefox, Emacs and iTunes, and alt-tab between them. Occasionally I also start a Terminal, if I want to ssh into a server somewhere.

Usually my Firefox tabs are gmail, yammer, ganglia, http://irc.justin.tv, and often some documentation to help with whatever I'm working on.

Typically I have a dozen or so Emacs buffers open - mostly python, javascript and haxe source code.

I never write notes by hand. I either write them in an Emacs buffer, or I send myself an email.

This is where I work (at justin.tv): http://abstractnonsense.com/workspace.jpg

Don't forget to tell everyone about the half-dead plant! ;-)

Do you actually work from that couch all day? I can't imagine that being comfortable for more than a few hours.

I have the smaller version of that couch (Ikea) and I can attest to the fact that it is a uncomfortable piece of shit. But it was cheap.

- Gnome -> 8 workspaces on two monitors 8 workspaces? I can't even manage to fill 6 workspaces; anyways I thought I'd share my 8 most abused keybinding combinations for multiple [3x3] workspaces. Switch to workspace <Ctrl><Alt>[Up, Down, Left, Right] and move active window to workspace <Shift><Alt>[Up, Down, Left, Right].

I actually binded it to Ctrl-Alt-(Left/Right) instead of the default, I think comes from the days I was a Enlightenment E16 user.

Also binded the change desktop to the Mouse's (Previous/Forward page buttons that's usually reserved for browser access). This came to be because at one point several years ago, I couldn't get Firefox to accept those buttons... but now I cannot live without it.

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