On 09:39 Wed 17 Dec , Gregory SACRE wrote: > 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, > ...). Sounds great but when i customize the file and save it in "~/.config/awesome/rc.lua" and reload, nothing seems to happen. I am trying to get working with awesome-3.1. Am i missing anything. > > 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.
That is a required feature because some stupid programs dont go well with the tiling concept. Another neat feature i found in default xmonad was the fact that there was no gap between adjacent windows. I am sure awesome should be able to do that as well, just that the default conf doesnt. But, then again i really haven't dug in. -- Regards, Man Shankar <man.ee.gen(at)gmail.com>
