I personnaly try but the result is that I keep using my mouse. An other convenient stuff with wmii is the possibility to switch betwin equally sized window to one fullcolumn window and the other minimized in each column
My understanding of awesome is quite weak. Is there any howto or documentation about creating a layout? 2009/2/23 Aaron Grattafiori <[email protected]> > I recently switched from wmii using a custom wmii-python a month or so > ago to dwm. I tried using dwm but, because of the lack of a different > layout > per workspace (or whatever you want to call it) and non-column system, I > was > never fond of dwm (besides for the simple code and minimalism). Wmii is > great but the developers are stuck on plan9 stuff (the bash script is > always changing and neglected) and development is slow, community small. > I switched to awesome a few weeks ago too and haven't looked back. > > So far, I'm enjoying awesome a lot but I do miss being able to select > left, right, up and down via h-j-k-l. (For non-wmii users if I have a > screen with 6 terminals, all equally sized on my screen, 3 on each > "side" of the screen... with wmii I was able to directly go from the > "center" terminal on the left side to the "center" terminal on the right > side with a simply MODKEY-l. With dwm, awesome, x-modnad and almost > every other tiling window manager, you've gotta use the mouse or press > 'j' or 'k' until you've got the right window. > > I've thought about writing my own layout tracking thing or something to > do this to support switching virtual columns or something but I'm seeing > if I can get used to just cycling through with j and k. Maybe I'll work > on this tomorrow, as I too found it convenient. > > -Aaron > >
