I am an xmonad user now. I installed awesome once, but didn't try to
understand much details of it, so no comment on awesome.
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Man Shankar wrote:
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.
In xmonad default, the size hint of some programs are ignored. Like
terminal staffs, urxvt, xterm, gvim. So sometimes they will leave
a half line on the bottom after certain resize action, as of new
windows opened.
Solved with an HintedTile tiling mod in xmonad-contrib.
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Regards,
Man Shankar <man.ee.gen(at)gmail.com>
