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+ :title "StumpWM on Debian Wheezy"
+ :date (make-date* 2013 07 20)
+ :tags '("stumpwm" "common lisp" "debian" "wheezy" "wsu")
+ :summary "First steps with StumpWM on Debian Wheezy"
+
+ (p [Everyone that's ever talked to me about software development
+knows that I am in love with Emacs.  Emacs has a wonderful keyboard
+driven interface and is almost infinitely customizable via Emacs Lisp.
+I've done a lot of programming in Emacs from my not-so-great laptop
+lately.  My laptop has a rather poor 1280x800 resolution and low
+performing integrated graphics chip.  Until today, I was running the
+GNOME 3 desktop environment on it.  Unlike most people (or perhaps
+just a loud minority), I like GNOME 3.  However, I wanted something
+that was both less graphics intensive and more keyboard driven than
+GNOME Shell and Mutter.])
+
+ (p [Someone on IRC told me about
+,(anchor [StumpWM] "http://www.nongnu.org/stumpwm/"),
+a window manager written entirely in Common Lisp. I had heard of
+StumpWM before, but back then I wasn't an Emacs user and I've never
+really stuck with any tiling window manager that I've tried (DWM,
+Awesome). Now that I know the power of a fully programmable
+environment thanks to Emacs, I decided to give StumpWM a try. After
+some initial pains trying to get it to run, I am now using it very
+happily.])
+
+ (p [Here is what I had to do to get StumpWM running on Debian Wheezy.])
+
+ (ol
+  (li [Install StumpWM] (source-code "sudo apt-get install stumpwm"))
+
+  (li [Create an ,(code [.xinitrc]) file in my home directory with the
+following text]
+      (source-code "exec stumpwm"))
+
+  (li (p [Workaround clisp "component not found" errors])
+      (p [I could not get StumpWM to start until I created the
+following symbolic links:])
+      (source-code
+       "ln -s /usr/share/common-lisp/source/stumpwm/stumpwm.asd \\
+      /usr/share/common-lisp/systems/stumpwm.asd
+ln -s /usr/share/common-lisp/source/cl-ppcre/cl-ppcre.asd \\
+      /usr/share/common-lisp/systems/cl-ppcre.asd"))
+
+  (li (p [Start the X server])
+      (source-code "startx")
+      (p [I use the GNOME Desktop Manager, so I also created a session
+file for StumpWM in ,(code [/usr/share/xsessions/stumpwm.desktop.])])
+      (source-code
+       "[Desktop Entry]
+Encoding=UTF-8
+Name=StumpWM
+Comment=This session logs you into StumpWM
+Exec=stumpwm
+TryExec=stumpwm
+Icon=
+Type=Application")))
+
+ (p [I hope this brief installation guide can be of use to one of you
+out there in Internet land.  Perhaps in the future I will write an
+article about customizing StumpWM with Common Lisp.]))