On  Ypnose's  web site [1], he says that a blog is "like a bottle into
  the sea". That's a nice idea. I like that.


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  xiate [2] has become my main terminal emulator. As it uses  VTE  as  a
  backend,  I  can  now  use a much larger variety of fonts. Speaking of
  Ypnose: I'm now giving envypn [3] a try.


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  I just realized that I  haven't  even  introduced  xiate  here  on  my
  twitpher.  It's  the terminal emulator I started working on at the end
  of September. I published the repo on GitHub around  2015-10-04.  Here
  [4] is an english blog posting about the program.


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  I'm just reading through old twitpher entries.

  In August 2014, I mentioned that I actually could use a window manager
  simpler than dwm. Hmm. Not much has happened since then. Yes, I kicked
  pixmap borders, but I'm still using my dwm fork.

  On  one  hand, this is good. It means that dwm is stable and reliable.
  It works really well. On the other hand, it means that I'm very  lazy.
  I could have improved the situation.

  I'm  not sure if I'm happy with dwm. Oh, yes, it gets the job done and
  I have greatly customized it to suite my needs. However, I  can't  get
  rid of the feeling that the code could be simplified.

  To be honest, that's my own fault. The last thing I want to do is call
  dwm bad software or overly complex software. dwm is great! But I added
  many  features to my dwm. I did that. Do I really need them all? Plus,
  I still don't use tags as tags but tags as workspaces. This means that
  there is a lot of code in my dwm that I simply don't use.

  When writing xiate, for example, I refrained from adding anything that
  I didn't need -- even if it would have been nice to have.  That's  the
  correct approach. Can I follow this ideology when it comes to dwm? Can
  I clean it up? Or do I really need to start from scratch?

  If I decided to start from scratch, I think the first thing to look at
  should be wmutils [5].

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  1. http://ywstd.fr/me/

  2. https://github.com/vain/xiate

  3. http://ywstd.fr/me/#envypn

  4. http://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2015-10-04/0/POSTING-en.html

  5. https://github.com/wmutils