Redshift to get some relief for your eyes

I am working in front of computer all day long, and looking at the bright screen hurt my eyes.  I was relied on the plugin ToggleDocumentColors to give me a grey background and black text with browser.  But it does not look good on some web sites and it only works on browser.  Then I came across this Redshift program, and it has a SlackBuilds.org script.  After installing it with sbopkg, found my latitude and longitude and fire up the program, instantly I could feel the stress of my eyes are reduced.

It may take sometime to get used to it as the color on the screen has a little reddish tone.  Unless you are working on graphics or color sensitive work, normal interaction with the web site or application has no problem at all and your eyes got some relief.  Since the discovery of this little tool, I have installed it to all my systems.

It has an GUI front end gtk-redshift that comes with the package.  It will display an icon on your system tray area, allow you to toggle it by a single click.

Highly recommend this little tool to anyone that need to work in front of computers.

gvim and i3 not playing too well together

It seems gvim is not playing nicely with tiling manager.  I encountered this bug.

It seems I am not alone with this problem.  To maximize and restore the window each time doesn't seem to be a good workaround.  The workaround I used are from the stackexchange, add the following line into my .vimrc:

set showtabline=2

It always display the tab bar.  Although it wastes some spaces, it gives me a proper displayed window.

3 days using i3 tiling window manager under Slackware

I have heard about tiling window manager for some time, but lack the initiative to test one.  Recently I finally got fed up with resizing two windows side by side and decided to give titling manager a test.

After some research from the web, I settled on i3 tiling window manager for its simplicity.  With the help from SlackBuilds, I got the window manager installed and run without hassle (I did recompile the cairo with xcb support (from current) and use the latest i3 release version 4.5.1).

It took me a while to get familiar with the key bindings.  Thanks for the good documentation, I got used to it quickly and customized the configuration to suite my own needs.  No longer do I need to fight with the mouse to place the window to gain the last pixel.  Wow, I wish I should try it earlier.  It just simply awesome! Oh, and awesome is another good tiling window manager too ^_^.

I have used various window mangers and DE during the years of using Slackware.  From the beginning, it was fvwm, fvwm2, IceWM, window maker, GNOME, KDE, XFCE, LXDE, blackbox, EDE, E16, E17, fluxbox.  Now I am simply sold to the tiling manager and won't go back to the normal one.