Just a quick note that I picked up a brand new Acer Aspire One AOD150-1676 here in Canada. This is meant to replace my primary workstation and I must say that so far I’m very impressed.
The 1024×600 screen is brilliantly bright and colourful. The 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor is snappy and the new touchpad/buttons are a welcome change from the first generation of the AA1.
It’s not without it’s annoyances however…the Canadian models ship with an international EN/FR/NL keyboard, which features a half-size Shift key and moves the Enter key vertically under the backspace rather than horizontally above the right Shift. Also, the Acer recovery partition and related software made it a real bitch to add Arch Linux partitions without completely wiping Windows XP. I’ll post my workaround for that soon.
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A 1024×600 netbook as a primary workstation?! How are you optimising the use of your screen’s (minimal) real estate?
I haven’t done much optimizing yet to be honest, but my standard config of dwm seems to be working pretty good. I may change the default layout to monocle and add the client count patch, but that’s about it for the time being. As you mentioned in your recent TWM revisit, it’s hard to go back once you’ve gone tiling.
This all said, I plan to keep my eye on the netbook-centric application GUIs as they mature.
Hi. I have an acer one too, but i have a problem with firefox and dwm, maybe you help me.
Always then i open firefox, the windows is with short dimensions, i added NoDDC and displaySize on xorg.conf but i don’t no what happen…. thanks :)
lol. I use the same one, also as my primary workstation for almost a year now.
I wiped the recovery partition. No need for it.
Arch 4.3
OpenBox3
tint2 (the panel is only 10px high)
Using one of your themes now. Still want to collapse the titlebar more, so it doesn’t exist.
You got the Canadian Acer? :P I like the original Taiwan’s better, their shift key is so BIG lol
I did yes, but actually these days I’m using an MSI Wind U120. It was one of the only netbooks I could find with a matte finish screen. Thankfully, it has a standard US keyboard with larger shift key as well. My son now has the Acer =)