On 29 Oct 2013, at 12:08, Eugen Dedu <eugen.d...@pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr> wrote:
> Thank you very much for your encouragements and sincere feeling. I am in the > same situation like you. I prefer to be in the 3rd attempt... Right now > awesome 3.5.1 (last debian version) has some major bugs on window movement > and resizing. Also, some applications look bad, such as ugly colours in > ekiga call window. I will try to "fix" them, hope I will succeed... Hang in there, Eugen! A colleague showed me Awesome WM about 3 months ago — first time I saw a tiling window manager and I was impressed by the ease with which my colleague changed everything (e.g. window size, window placement, which tag applications run under) using the keyboard. I ran it on Arch, first using it to replace xfwm4 in Xfce. It didn't take me too long to change it to pure Awesomeness, because the dock in Xfce didn't play nice. I love it, and I have finally converged to a configuration that is worth keeping. I wanted to have a minimal configuration, so the only things I have in my status bar is a clock, battery indicator, a gmail indicator, a volume indicator. I made my own icons for these and just used the systray to show the wicd-gtk applet and dropbox. The theme of my applications is done through GTK. I found that — initially — there wasn't much documentation about coding the widgets and many of them were actually not compatible with 3.5.1: I think the way to really learn about the features of Awesome is by checking out the configurations of other users - some users have done some really cool stuff. Scrolling through the Awesome forum over at Archlinux is a great way to start (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=88926&p=54 - my config is the last one there at the moment) and the copy-cat themes (https://github.com/copycat-killer/awesome-copycats) are a great resource for both theming and implementing widgets. Good luck! Arthur -- Arthur J. Lugtigheid , PhD - lugtigh...@gmail.com Centre for Vision Research, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON M3J1P3, Canada -- To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org.
