Re: [gentoo-user] Awesome vs Xmonad

2008-12-30 Thread Christian Franke
On 12/17/2008 05:51 AM, Man Shankar wrote: > I want to try out the tiling window managers. If you're not already fixed to "Awesome or Xmonad" you might also want to have a look at ion. [1] I am using it on my notebook which has a relatively small screen resolution of 1024x768, so most time I was r

Re: [gentoo-user] Awesome vs Xmonad

2008-12-30 Thread Man Shankar
On 17:11 Mon 22 Dec , Andreas Niederl wrote: > Hi, > > Man Shankar wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I want to try out the tiling window managers. I would want to know the > > experiences of the users about awesome and xmonad. Primarily i would > > like to know which of those two tiling WMs has worke

Re: [gentoo-user] Awesome vs Xmonad

2008-12-22 Thread Andreas Niederl
Hi, Man Shankar wrote: > Hello, > > I want to try out the tiling window managers. I would want to know the > experiences of the users about awesome and xmonad. Primarily i would > like to know which of those two tiling WMs has worked for you guys. The > hurdles you encountered and the gains you g

Re: [gentoo-user] Awesome vs Xmonad

2008-12-17 Thread Dake Wang
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Awesome vs Xmonad

2008-12-17 Thread Dede
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:52:37 +0530 Man Shankar 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Awesome vs Xmonad

2008-12-17 Thread Man Shankar
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 > on

Re: [gentoo-user] Awesome vs Xmonad

2008-12-17 Thread Gregory SACRE
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 wan

[gentoo-user] Awesome vs Xmonad

2008-12-16 Thread Man Shankar
Hello, I want to try out the tiling window managers. I would want to know the experiences of the users about awesome and xmonad. Primarily i would like to know which of those two tiling WMs has worked for you guys. The hurdles you encountered and the gains you got thereof. Currently i am a happy