March 2011
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Installing Qtile on Ubuntu 10.10
I decided to try the Qtile tiling window manager after hearing so much about it at PyCon. It’s kind of a pain in the neck to install the first time, though, and I thought I’d save everyone else from the mistakes I made along the way.
Building
Starting with the official installation instructions, here are the modifications I made to that process to get it running:
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Installing Ubuntu the hard way
I usually use Ubuntu on my desktop at work. I decided to try Arch Linux a few days ago, but changed my mind and wanted to go back to Ubuntu. Easy, right? Nope.
First, I should mention that my desktop has 3 hard drives and an SSD, and I use LVM to manage all of them. I also wanted to wipe out the root filesystem and replace it with Ubuntu while leaving /home and a couple of other filesystems...
