As Alexander said above, just go and try it, really. There is no risk involved.
Personally I can say that Awesome is one of two best things that happened to me in the Un*x world in last years (the second one is mastering Vim). But I was immediately hooked to the idea of tiling WM, and just tried all of those that were available five years ago - I stayed with Awesome as it was best in handling multiple monitors at that time. If awesome won't appeal to you, you can give i3 a try - I remember that I liked it really a lot - in some aspects more than awesome. Paweł 2015-09-08 19:58 GMT+02:00 Ray Andrews <rayandr...@eastlink.ca>: > Gentlemen, > > I use xfce, it's fine, but I want something lighter. All I really want is > the xfwm part of it, and even that window manager has its defects. I have > dual monitors, and I can't drag anything between monitors. I hate trying to > configure things using those stupid pop up dialogue boxes. I'd like text > configuration files that I can edit, save, backup and restore. > > Awesome seems well spoken of. What can you guys tell me? I can't think > what to specifically ask. It would be nice if it worked sensibly out of the > box. I don't need fancy effects. I want windows on screens that I can > resize, maximize, minimize, etc. Nice if they snap to borders to avoid > wasted space. Xfce gives normally six or so desktops than you can change > to, that's good. The mouse has to work. I need custom keyboard shortcuts. > Basically nothing strange. I don't want to have to spend six months > learning Lua. I want a simple, predictable, configurable WM that is usable > but doesn't bother me with bells and whistles. > > Advice? -- To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org.
