My desktop today (zaibatsu.circumlunar.space), 03/02/2020
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It  is fun  to share  about one's  computer setup  from time  to time.
Here's how things look recently:

- Still using openbox/lxde as a manual tiling wm. I like the 
  control, and I have the hotkeys setup to make things quick. If I can
  complete a career shift, I'll be  going to 100% text-only, but right
  now that's not possible, so this still works for me.
- I'm still using a laptop as my main machine.
- I've added two external monitors. One on HDMI, and the 
  other on VGA.
- The monitor on my left has email. I do a fair bit of 
  email, and I like to stay on top of it. There are no unread messages
  in the three accounts that are showing on the screen.
- The monitor on my right has a chat system for one of my 
  clients on  half the screen, and  two terminal windows on  the other
  half. This is my "live data"  monitor. During this covid thing, I've
  had  the "watch"  utility  updating some  headlines from  notfox.com
  pulled with  "lynx -dump" every 5  minutes, in one terminal.  In the
  other terminal  I've had  a cli utility  called "mop"  pulling stock
  values, also  every 5 minutes. I  don't care much about  the news or
  the  markets, but  I've been  interested to  see how  they correlate
  during  these current  events. The  5 minute  update interval  is on
  purpose:  I don't  want to  be looking  at this  nonsense every  few
  sections, I want updates that aren't  pressing on me. If I know that
  they're set that way, I just won't look as much.
- My wm provides virtual desktops. I've configured 5. I've 
  tacked everything on the external  monitors to all desktops, so that
  when I switch between them only the laptop screen changes.
- I still use dmenu to launch programs, because there is no 
  other reasonable way. It works perfectly with openbox.

That is all for now. I've had to  clean the desk up a bit to make room
for the monitors,  so that's a good thing. The  other nice thing about
these external monitors is, I can just  focus on what I want to in the
middle, and let  all the annoying stuff  that I like to  keep track of
take up the peripheral space. I can glance at things as needed.