I now have a perfect use for the rarely-used numpad! Because I have three monitors connected and am an exwm/winum user to navigate all those screens from the keyboard, I have bound that rarely-used numpad to quickly allow for switching between screens, up to 9 (I am not sure my brain could handle more than 9 decisions on viewports, anyway…). The magic is that numpad numbers are a different keycodde than the normal numberline at the top of the keyboard.

I recently shuffled things with my office and found that I have hardware and ports for a third monitor to connect to my exwm setup. So, without further ado, how to get it going and registered with Linux/EXWM? Edit [2022-01-02 Sun] an easier way with arandr Downloading and installing arandr made this whole configuration much simpler than using the raw randr output. I finally made the jump when I was receiving an error at my attempts to load it manually: xrandr: Configure crtc 2 failed.

Emacs is really an endless world of commands, options, and use-cases, especially for dealing with text. Sorting text is a really common thing and often plain-old M-x sort-lines does the trick in one fell swoop. But what if you want something more sophisticated? It turns out my eyes have been opened and emacs has led me to think about sorting things in ways I never even thought about before.

What ghosts/anomalies do you encounter in the Chtulhu Mansion that is your emacs setup? Emacs is the closest thing now existing to the vaunted “lisp machines” that were originally prescribed to make lisp run effectively. This seems all the more true of exwm users like myself, who are taking the proposition of “emacs as operating system” somewhat literally (at least, to those who don’t consider the difference between a window manager and an operating system.

I love the advocacy for a custom-less setup given here. Mind you, I have no desire to go without the customization family of helper commands like customize-group and customize-variable: the ability to rapidly explore the options available for plugins, libraries, and styles feels like a “killer feature”. But as software engineering has grown over the decades we are in a place to better understand the values in locating those customization in the same place where they can be associated, shared, and simultaneously deleted/edited.

Previously I’ve talked about the inability to refer to my code screens from within exwm if I’m on a video call in my browser; it shows the option fo other browser windows, and the option of the whole screen, but not an emacs buffer. The solution is simple and beautifully recursive: run emacs within your exwm emacs. Do what? Run emacs within your main exwm emacs session. M-S & emacs.

Using exwm with emacs-in-emacs I sometimes make a mistake and start a shell-process going that I need to stop. However, C-c is grabbed by my parent exwm session and so doesn’t send anything to my shell. How can I do this manually? Answer C-c C-c is short for comint-interrupt-subjob Resources https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/ja97xs/weekly_tipstricketc_thread/g8xu647?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

I find myself going back to regular WMs (my favorite from the past being KDE) because certain tasks are just deeply punishing in EXWM. When I’m doing my regular daily work I can usually make EXWM work for me. But here are the facts I experience with/without emacs as my window manager. Life is worse without EXWM Winum. Looking at a screen and hitting the num to focus there; I miss it dearly and cringe when I need to reach for the mouse.

I use exwm so M-TAB is available to me without being hijacked by the OS, but rebinding this failed in surprising places. I want it globally to be set to iflipb-next-buffer (giving familiar alt+tab functionality to exwm), but if any of the buffers I’m travelling past happen to inherit magit or gnus, my tab-sequence gets broken because they have it bound to their own thing and I can’t seem to rebind it.

By default ivy/swiper/counsel (not sure which) will visit all results as I scan through a list, e.g. when going through my buffers. I thought I liked this until working on my exwm with multiple monitors and non-emacs buffers are only allowed to appear once, meaning that simply moving down my selection list caused screen to be stolen from my other monitor. Answer Buffer-changes are apparently an effect of using counsel-switch-buffer, which I had bound to C-x b.