Hi Man,
I was a huge fan of FVWM (loved the flexibility of it) and I tried to switch to awesome. After trying a bit to understand how the configuration script work (about three days in my spare time), I understood how awesome (this one was easy :-p) this wm is. You can do pretty much what you want as the configuration script, which is using the Lua script language, can load system commands (such as conky, even thought I couldn't get it to work, but used native lua scripts with the wicked.lua library) or run native code (I use this to see the disk space, mpd songs, battery life, cpu usage with a graph, ...). One of the other things I really like in awesome, it's the fact that you can mix up tiling windows and floating ones. You can define, for certain window titles in the configuration file, the fact that they are floating. Then, when you start them, they appear as floating windows and not tiled as the rest of them. This is pretty much interesting for applications such as Skype, gitk, mplayer, ... As for other tiling wm, you can also assign tags (sort of virtual desktops) to window titles so when you start it, it goes directly there, leaving your actual tag clean with what you were doing. I have never tried xmonad, I can just share my experience with awesome. HTH, Greg On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 5:51 AM, Man Shankar <man.ee....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I want to try out the tiling window managers. I would want to know the > experiences of the users about awesome and xmonad. Primarily i would > like to know which of those two tiling WMs has worked for you guys. The > hurdles you encountered and the gains you got thereof. > > Currently i am a happy e16 user, but the fact that the tiling WMs > "manage" the windows makes me attracted to them. Please comment. > > -- > > Regards, > Man Shankar <man.ee.gen(at)gmail.com> > >
