a better keyboard experience

geek I've been really busy at work last week; we attended at a fair, and a huge amount of time was devoted to the preparation of the event and the physical presence at it. With near no spare time, I took the chance to focus on side things, and most of all to think about how to improve my virtual working environment.

I am a great fan of tiled window managers, and been a long time user of dwm. I also love to work with my keyboard most of the time, and except for graphic and web surfing, I hardly need a pointing device (I use a trackball, by the way).

What I was looking for was a tiled window manager with a more flexible approach to layouts, and some kind of keyboard driven web browsing interface with the same rendering capabilities that firefox provides. For the window manager I gave awesome a try, and after some configuration I am pretty satisfied with it. For the web browsing interface I decided to install the vimperator firefox extension; it seems to be very powerful once you get used to key mappings (which in the end are the same that vim uses).

I'm going to post more impressions on both tools as soon as possible.

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