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Comment WindowMaker is awesome. (Score 5, Interesting) 192

Personally, I've used WindowMaker since the early '00s, and I'm still sticking to it. As a power user, I find its customization abilities extremely helpful. Also, I like that it's sticking to what it does best -- window management -- without eating up most of my CPU and GPU resources and bloating my memory. That's great news, keep up the good work!
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Researchers Pooh-Pooh Algae-Based Biofuel 238

Julie188 writes "Researchers from the University of Virginia have found that current algae biofuel production methods consume more energy, have higher greenhouse gas emissions and use more water than other biofuel sources, such as switchgrass, canola and corn. The researchers suggest these problems can be overcome by situating algae production ponds behind wastewater treatment facilities to capture phosphorous and nitrogen — essential algae nutrients that otherwise need to come from petroleum."

Comment Shortcuts for terminals (Score 1) 2362

10 years ago I built a custom piece of furniture for my home PC. Well, the basic flaw was that the mouse position was somehow uncomfortable. At the time I was using twm as a window manager, and took advantage of using different shortcuts to focus directly on each of the terminals I had opened (like F1 for the first terminal, F2 for the second, etc). That solved the mouse problem.

10 years after that, I still mostly ignore my mouse (although it's definitely more approachable) and speed-change between at least 4 terminals with the F keys... A lot of modern window managers have kept up support for shortcuts, but I'm sticking with WindowMaker, which has the additional perk of not bloating the system beyond redemption.

Some of my coworkers have got jealous of that, but discovered their own way: Konsole can open multiple virtual terminals, and you can hop directly on them using specific shortcuts.

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