On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:52:37 +0530 Man Shankar <man.ee....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 09:39 Wed 17 Dec , Gregory SACRE wrote: > > 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. > Look at point 3.3 in http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/index.php?title=FAQ Like Gregory, I really like awesome but I have never tried xmonad. However I have recently switched from Ion3. Cheers, Dede
