I've been using Mac OS X for the last few months, and I've forgotten how much I like WindowMaker. What I miss most is having popup menus readily available from the mouse or keyboard (F11 and F12). I also miss having a lot of little utilities running in xterms.
Here's a little recipe that I keep filed under "Hacks > Monthly Calendar". It brings up a teensy-tiny xterm, and waits for a carriage return before it dismisses itself:
rxvt -fn fixed +sb -bg black -fg grey -geometry 20x9 -title "This Month" -e sh -c "cal && read wait"I've also got a recipe for bringing up a 2002 calendar:
rxvt -fn fixed +sb -bg black -fg gray -geometry 65x33 -title "2002 Calendar" -e sh -c "cal 2002 && read wait"(Getting the terminal window sized properly was the hardest part. This hides the '2002' at the top of the calendar display, because that information is repeated in the title bar.)
I like to use dc when I need a calculator. I don't know why, but I've always used it. Here's the hack I use to keep it handy:
rxvt -fn fixed -bg white -fg black -geometry 20x20 +sb -title dc -e dcI've got a top-level menu that has a bunch of xterm aliases to ssh into a bunch of machines where I log in frequently. I've used that technique for so many years now that bringing up a shell is hardwired to the key sequence F12+Right Arrow+up/down arrow a few times+return. (Yes, I'm right handed. :-)
Much as I like the Dock, the Eye Candy, the iApps and *BSD in the belly, I'm now starting to see that not having a very configurable NeXTSTEP-like global menu in OS X is really annoying. The lack of cheap, omnipresent xterms is also a PITA. (No, Terminal.app doesn't count.)
