Fragmented Development

I've recently transitioned myself over to a Openbox-based desktop by installing Xubuntu and pulling out most of the XFCE stuff. It's been quite the learning experience, and I've discovered a couple things that I thought I should share:

• Both Tint2 (a panel application) and Nitrogen (an application that displays background images) support dual-monitor setups in very cool ways.
  • Tint2 splits your window list into two separate lists. At first I thought I had discovered a bug, but after a couple minutes I realized that all windows open on monitor 1 were showing up in the list on the right, and all of monitor 2's windows were on the other side. Awesome.
  • Nitrogen allows you to set one background image that spans across the entire desktop, or two separate background images in a way that makes sense on two physical monitors. I would have been much happier using Gnome if they had gotten this right–way to go Nitrogen guys! Awesome!
• If you want to close a window that's show on your tint panel, you can simply right-click on it. AWESOME!

At first, I was running Openbox without any panel at all, but in light of Tint2's awesomeness, I can't see doing without it. These are the kind of little things that make me love Linux and Free software so much.