I use xscreensaver and like to lock my display when I leave my computer. Here is a snippet from my wmiirc-config.rb file that adds an xlock action to the Alt-a action menu.

    plugin_config["standard:actions"]["internal"].update({
      'xlock' => lambda do |wmii, *args|
            system("xscreensaver-command --lock")
      end
    })

I start my xscreensaver in the .xsession file:

    /usr/bin/xscreensaver -nosplash &

… before launching wmii.

I have recently added a few things to by wmii+ruby configuration that I wanted to share. These are:

• start a program in a given view from bash prompt (authored by Dave O’Neill)
• start a program in a given view using Alt-Shift-p (authored by Jean Richard)
• start an xterm in a given view using Alt-Shift-Return
• cache directory changes in a view, start an xterm in the view’s last directory using Alt-Apostrophe

I am giving a quick overview of wmii+ruby later today.

In case anyone is interested here are the relevant links:

• my presentation pdf, magic point
• my wmiirc config

Links from presentation:

• wmii official site
• wmii+ruby official site
• [my blog entries on wmii]{tag/wmii}

My window managers have changed a few times over the years. I started off with OpenSTEP at Carleton, used that for a year. Then switched to Afterstep, which I used for about 3 years. Next I switched to sawfish/sawmill, and used it for about 4 years. Recently I went through a crisis as sawfish stopped working for me in testing on amd64. I found [ion3]{tag/ion3} to be a nice replacement. I was a happy ion3 user for almost a year and then someone suggested that I try [wmii-3]{tag/wmii}.