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I am an xmonad user now. I installed awesome once, but didn't try to |
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understand much details of it, so no comment on awesome. |
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On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Man Shankar wrote: |
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> On 09:39 Wed 17 Dec , Gregory SACRE wrote: |
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>> Hi Man, |
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>> I was a huge fan of FVWM (loved the flexibility of it) and I tried to |
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>> switch to awesome. |
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>> After trying a bit to understand how the configuration script work |
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>> (about three days in my spare time), I understood how awesome (this |
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>> one was easy :-p) this wm is. |
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>> You can do pretty much what you want as the configuration script, |
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>> which is using the Lua script language, can load system commands (such |
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>> as conky, even thought I couldn't get it to work, but used native lua |
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>> scripts with the wicked.lua library) or run native code (I use this to |
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>> see the disk space, mpd songs, battery life, cpu usage with a graph, |
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>> ...). |
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> Sounds great but when i customize the file and save it in |
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> "~/.config/awesome/rc.lua" and reload, nothing seems to happen. I am |
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> trying to get working with awesome-3.1. Am i missing anything. |
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>> One of the other things I really like in awesome, it's the fact that |
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>> you can mix up tiling windows and floating ones. You can define, for |
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>> certain window titles in the configuration file, the fact that they |
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>> are floating. Then, when you start them, they appear as floating |
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>> windows and not tiled as the rest of them. This is pretty much |
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>> interesting for applications such as Skype, gitk, mplayer, ... |
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>> As for other tiling wm, you can also assign tags (sort of virtual |
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>> desktops) to window titles so when you start it, it goes directly |
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>> there, leaving your actual tag clean with what you were doing. |
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> That is a required feature because some stupid programs dont go well |
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> with the tiling concept. Another neat feature i found in default xmonad |
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> was the fact that there was no gap between adjacent windows. I am sure |
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> awesome should be able to do that as well, just that the default conf |
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> doesnt. But, then again i really haven't dug in. |
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In xmonad default, the size hint of some programs are ignored. Like |
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terminal staffs, urxvt, xterm, gvim. So sometimes they will leave |
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a half line on the bottom after certain resize action, as of new |
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windows opened. |
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Solved with an HintedTile tiling mod in xmonad-contrib. |
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> -- |
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> Regards, |
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> Man Shankar <man.ee.gen(at)gmail.com> |
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