Hello, Marco!
Speaking about keyboard layouts you should take a look on this:
http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Keyboard_layouts_with_kbdd . It
remembers the keyboard layout per each window.
On 09/25/2011 01:21 AM, Marco Gergele wrote:
Hello,
a collegue of mine just convinced me of awesome. So who could resist a
nearby fan of a WM - now I have to try it seriously. Most of it is
quite cool!
I have a few problems still with it. I have to admit that my last
linux-times where at fvwm and mingetty, and in between I used Win XP
in the classic layout - merely I used a happy mixture of GNU-Tools and
configured commandline under win-xp. I do really like to do things
with keyboard, but in some situations there has to be a short and easy
mouse-way (for example, I prefer gvim over vim, but without the
buttons, just for the menus and graphics).
My lua.rc is http://pastebin.com/i4bbTVEz, just a bit modified from a
friend's version. The only "creative" part is a start of a
Keyboard-layout per tag, but if i switch in one tag to the secondary
layout, then all tags have "the other one". But that just should be an
adjustment.
The keyboard switching is now a bit fat: Instead of starting a System
program I would prefer to send my Shift-Alt (to whatever client,or to
the main menu, that should switch the language), but couldn't find a
way to do it.
I hope that most of my problems are solvable in rc.lua.
- If a window is newly created and sent to another tag, it is in that
tag optically in the foreground, but the cursor is in background. I
send the commands to the wrong window
- sometimes the screen get splattered in layout.max, that means only
part of the client is repaint. I would like to be able to send a
"repaint"-event.
- I would like to have a few simple menu widgets without any image,
just the name. In winxp I just put a folder down there, one left and
one right, that did the job. I mean a menu "Terms" for the different
target machine terms (sshs), one "sqls" for the mysql-sessions etc.
- some kind of window should be "loyal" to their parent window, i.e.
when firefox opens a popup for fullscreen-Youtube-video or other app,
that should stay in the web-tag
- some sort of clients should open in foreground, I mean the tag where
the client went to should be activated.
The more advanced stuff would be to react on file system changes in a
certain folder, but that still has some time.
I do read often about the good api-doc of awesome, but I often get no
clue. Say, beautiful.awesome_icon may or may not have a few "friends",
as other icons. Or signals can be emitted via awesome.emit_signal, but
how can I emit a Keyboard event like Shift_l - Alt? "name, ..." are
the parameters.
I do like to receive some help, also short help, or even a short
example. Or the right doc place. If I get something working cool I
would give it back.
Are there known plans to keep the configuration schema unchanged for a
while now? Some seem to have lost a bit of time with the format changes.
Thanks to all readers and helpers!
Marco.
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