Hi John,
thank you for the enthusiastic feedback. Happy to have you on board! :)
If any daily users have tips to share, I'll certainly be listening! (If I come up with anything helpful, I will try to write it up for Genodians also.) One thing I am very curious about is the state of the various packages in the depots - some of those look very intriguing!
There are indeed many packages to discover by now. Not all of them are covered by corresponding Genodians.org articles yet, but sometimes a look into the pkg's runtime and accompanied configurations is already quite instructive.
It would be really nice if you write up your findings for other users to learn from. At one point, it would make sense to have an informally curated overview of what's available where.
While we are at it, let me just share one minor but enjoyable feature: By default, the window manager shows the window borders while a window is maximized. When using a VM in full screen, this is a waste of pixels. Now, with the black-hole component, one can simply route the window layouter's request for the "decorator margins" to the black hole, prompting the layouter to position a maximized window such that the window decor stays outside the visible area. I think that's is quite a nice hack.
Cheers Norman