Re: advice

2015-09-08 23:06 GMT+02:00 Ray Andrews : > The mouse has to work. >> The mouse moves around when you move your physical mouse around, and clicks >> on things when you press the physical button on the mouse. I'm not sure what >> kind of answer you're expecting here. > > Just

Re: advice

As Alexander said above, just go and try it, really. There is no risk involved. Personally I can say that Awesome is one of two best things that happened to me in the Un*x world in last years (the second one is mastering Vim). But I was immediately hooked to the idea of tiling WM, and just tried

Re: [ANNOUNCE] awesome 3.5.4 relased

Thanks Uli, it's been so long since the last release that I thought the development has stalled... Great job :) 2014-04-02 10:10 GMT+02:00 Uli Schlachter psyc...@znc.in: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi everyone, it's been a long time already and here it finally is! Uli

Re: Some questions from an awesome beginner

2013/10/30 Eugen Dedu eugen.d...@pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr: On 29/10/13 19:42, Paweł Rumian wrote: Use/configure acpid Can someone share with me his solution to make suspend on lid closing? I'm not with my laptop right now, but I remember I've used this solution https://wiki.archlinux.org

Re: Some questions from an awesome beginner

Hello, before I will answer some of your questions, I'd point you to a fundamental difference - while Gnome is a complete desktop environment, awesome is just(?) a window manager. You will need to use some additional tools to get the results you have out-of-the-box in gnome. Gnome also probably

Re: Some questions from an awesome beginner

2013/10/29 Eugen Dedu eugen.d...@pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr: Thank you first for your answers. See below. On 29/10/13 14:31, Paweł Rumian wrote: Hello, before I will answer some of your questions, I'd point you to a fundamental difference - while Gnome is a complete desktop environment

Re: Some questions from an awesome beginner

One more thing - take a look at other tools available at http://suckless.org/ They fit perfectly to a tiling manager, and if one day you'll decide to make a change and use - for example - i3, you can stay with them. Paweł -- To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org.

Re: How to change Awesome WM's DPI from 96 to 120?

2013/2/20 WANG Chao wangchao19890...@gmail.com: Fonts on taglist/tasklist/wibox/naughty/... still uses DPI 96. Isn't this a matter of selecting a font with higher DPI? -- To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org.

Re: Run command with an ipython-like history - possible?

2012/8/20 Massimiliano Brocchini massimiliano.brocch...@gmail.com: You can use CTRL + Arrow Up, CTRL + Arrow Down to search the history for commands starting with the characters you typed. Wow, great! Exactly what I was looking for. Paweł -- To unsubscribe, send mail to

Run command with an ipython-like history - possible?

Hello, I am wondering is it possible to make the 'run command' history behave like ipython? That means that after entering the first characters, the history would be restricted to commands starting with the chars entered. For those not familiar with ipython - the same thing can be achieved in

Re: Run command with an ipython-like history - possible?

No, it is all about the history. Paweł 2012/8/17 Diep Pham Van i...@favadi.com: dmenu? On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:21:08AM +0200, Paweł Rumian wrote: Hello, I am wondering is it possible to make the 'run command' history behave like ipython? That means that after entering the first

Which is the 'proper' repository to fetch lgi from?

hello, as the git/master version of awesome requires lgi, I'd like to ask: should we fetch from the original pavouk repository, or from the forked Uli's one? br, Paweł -- To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org.

Re: Which is the 'proper' repository to fetch lgi from?

OK, all clear :) Paweł -- To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org.

Re: [ANN] Definitely Awesome - the latest news about awesome wm

Thank you again! -- To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org.

Re: error message on startup from awsetbg

2012/6/22 Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@gmail.com: This is no big deal, but annoying. Any suggestions what is going on? I was facing the same problem and my suspection is that there is some kind of race condition with the default command 'awsetbg'. In my case it was happening when using 2 or 3 display

Re: New lgi dependency and older Ubuntu LTS

2012/6/17 Uli Schlachter psyc...@znc.in: Short version: You need /usr/lib/girepository-1.0/Pango-1.0.typelib (in debian this is in package gir1.2-pango-1.0). Uli, you are absolutely great. Now I not only have my awesome working again, but I understand the whole 'introspection' thing :) Thank

os.setlocale stopped working in git?

Hello, after recent update of awesome I had troubles starting it with my config file (it worked fine with the default one). Some investigation lead me to the first line of my rc.lua: os.setlocale(os.getenv(LANG)) With this line, awesome crashes at start with:

Re: os.setlocale stopped working in git?

OK, it works when I call os.setlocale after local awful = require(awful) I guess it is one of the recent changes in awful that causes this. Still a very minor problem, as awful does not need to use my locale and I can call setlocale after loading awful. Paweł -- To unsubscribe, send mail to

Re: Stretching window over both screens?

2012/6/15 Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@gmail.com: Simple question: is there a way of stretching a window over two screens? Something like this maybe? http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/FullScreens -- To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org.

Re: Setting a specified gap between windows

2012/6/4 Nicolas G. Querol nicolas.gque...@gmail.com: Hello awesomers, Sorry if this question has already been answered, but how would one specify a consistent gap of a few pixels between tiled windows? I'm using awesome-git at the moment. Hello, check the parameter theme.border_width in

Re: Setting a specified gap between windows

2012/6/4 Nicolas G. Querol nicolas.gque...@gmail.com: 2012/6/4 Paweł Rumian gork...@gmail.com Hello, check the parameter theme.border_width in the file theme.lua (of your current theme). BR, Paweł Thanks for your suggestion. It kind of does what I want, but would it be possible

Re: Setting a specified gap between windows

2012/6/4 Nicolas G. Querol nicolas.gque...@gmail.com: Thanks again Paweł! I'm glad I was able to help :) Paweł -- To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org.

Re: Awesome Development Version vs Awesome 3.4

2012/5/2 Hong Shick Pak hongshick@gmail.com: I am currently using awesome-git-20120214-1 and there are changes with the config that I can't find documented. http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Awesome_3.4_to_git_master -- To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org.

Re: Any tag on any screen

2012/4/30 Hans Georg Schaathun ge...@schaathun.net: It would be very convenient if all screens could share one list of tags, such that any tag could be picked up by any screen at any time. (...) I cannot see any reason not to let all screens use the same global list of tags. I am not

Re: Scrollbar width?

W dniu 26 marca 2012 20:44 użytkownik Vladimir Todorov inspell...@gmail.com napisał: Anyone knows how I can change the width of the scrollbars? I searched the rc.lua file and the theme.lua file but I didn't find anything. I also tried google again without success. I want to decrease the width.

Re: Scrollbar width?

Sorry for the look of my mail - now I see that gmail has massacrated it horribly :/ I hope it is somehow readable anyway... -- To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org.

Re: Scrollbar width?

W dniu 26 marca 2012 23:05 użytkownik Vladimir Todorov inspell...@gmail.com napisał: Hi, Oh, I guess that this was just a noobish question then... ; ) Actually I make difference between a DE and a WM but I don't know why I decided that the WM takes responsibility of drawing the scrollbar...

Re: Scrollbar width?

W dniu 26 marca 2012 23:27 użytkownik Vladimir Todorov inspell...@gmail.com napisał: But for now it seems that gnome-color-chooser is my best solution (yes the name is misleading but there is an option to change the width of the scrollbar there). Ah, so I guess that it simply modifies the

Re: Layouts

AFAIK there is no 'purpose' of a layout. Just try them all (Mod4+Space) and use the one which suits your needs at a specific time. I, for example, mostly use the 'columns' layout, but on a pivoted screen 'rows' is better. When working with Gimp I use floating, and so on. Spiral and zigzag are not

Re: Layouts

W dniu 24 marca 2012 17:59 użytkownik Gerald Klein j...@zognet.com napisał: I wasn't looking for a direct application of a layout as much as functional description, like what is dwindle, how are the frames laid out etc? Also which icons go with which names? Is that the master to the left? When

Re: Client Movement between screens

Hello, Matthew has done it _almost_ right, because awful itself handles wrapping. Something like this will be enough: function(c) local prevscreen = c.screen - 1 awful.client.movetoscreen(c,prevscreen) end function(c) local nextscreen = c.screen + 1

Re: Client Movement between screens

As I was also unable to find the information some time ago, I have edited the wiki and added this solution: https://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Move_Client_to_Monitor_Left/Right BR, Paweł -- To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org.

Re: External storage devices not showing up in filemanagers

Hello Satoshi, Diep Pham Van is probably right, I suppose this may be somewhat connected with gvfs. The link below is about Gentoo, but you should be able to adapt it to Arch http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-858965.html I do not have personal everyday experience with such configured system

Re: [ANN] Definitely Awesome - the latest news about awesome wm

W dniu 25 lutego 2012 22:40 użytkownik Alexander Yakushev yakushev.a...@gmail.com napisał: What do you think? Hmmm Awesome :) No, really :) Paweł -- To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org.

Autostart application on specific tag (not permanent with awful.rules.rules)

Hello, is it possible to place application to a specific tag of specific screen when autostarting, but not making it permanent for all similar applications? E.g. I want to open terminal at tag 4 of screen 2, but obviously auto-putting ALL further terminal windows there makes no sense. I

Re: Autostart application on specific tag (not permanent with awful.rules.rules)

You forgot to CC the list :). Indeed, sorry :) Doesn't `-name` option of urxvt help?  For a terminal launched as: $ urxvt -name foo you can match it in awesome with: { rule = { instance = foo }, ... } Yes, this probably could make it! I totally forgot about -name :) Opening three

Re: Too Large Notification Icon?

2012/2/14 Sebastian Bachmann m...@free-minds.net: I had the Problem with some Notifications, but the most anyoing ones come from Banshee (or maybe some other programms too), because Banshee puts the cover of the current title as icon into the notification... I'm not sure if I understand this

Re: Small gap at the bottom of some applications

2012/1/27 Marco net...@lavabit.com: Some of my applications (e.g. urxvt, xterm) don't take the space they should. There's a small border at the bottom, a few pixels, maybe 8-14. I already tried to set the  border to zero, then I have no border, but the gap remains. How to remove this gap?

Re: Management of disconnected Monitors

hello, I suppose (but probably Uli, Julien or anxrc will be able to clarify it) that awesome takes info about monitors straight from RandR. You can check that even after the monitor is switched off, 'xrandr -q' still reports it as connected. I don't know how i3 handles that. As for the driver -

Re: Management of disconnected Monitors

2011/11/15 andreas herza...@gmail.com: On 11/15/2011 01:00 PM, Paweł Rumian wrote: I suppose (but probably Uli, Julien or anxrc will be able to clarify it) that awesome takes info about monitors straight from RandR. You can check that even after the monitor is switched off, 'xrandr -q' still

Re: Management of disconnected Monitors

I use gentoo with -xinerama useflag :) So xdpyinfo says XINERAMA extension not supported by xdpyinfo. Strange, because on my gentoo box with USE='-xinerama' I have: $ xdpyinfo -ext XINERAMA | tail -n 5 XINERAMA version 1.1 opcode: 150 head #0: 1280x1024 @ 2960,0 head #1: 1280x1024 @ 0,0

Re: Management of disconnected Monitors

I'm afraid I cannot help you further, because my experience is limited to system running open drivers, which seems to behave totally different - especially it still reports the monitor as connected even if it is switched off and has more clear reports on Xinerama (in your list of extensions it is

Re: Awesome crashing over night

Have you checked uptime and/or dmesg? Maybe the machine reboots? -- To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org.

Direction of moving windows between screens (monitors)

window to left monitor, sometimes to the right one. Is there a simple way to achieve this, or do I need to modify the movetoscreen function in awful? I see it has the 's' parameter, but from what I see it allows only to pass the screen numberm not the 'direction' itself. thanks for help, Paweł