Re: [gentoo-user] Awesome vs Xmonad

[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 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,
...).

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.

I have never tried xmonad, I can just share my experience with awesome.


HTH,

Greg

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 5:51 AM, Man Shankar <man.ee.gen@×××××.com> 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 got thereof.
>
> Currently i am a happy e16 user, but the fact that the tiling WMs
> "manage" the windows makes me attracted to them. Please comment.
>
> --
>
> Regards,
> Man Shankar <man.ee.gen(at)gmail.com>
>
>