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Awesome window manager framework version 4.0 changes

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Re: Awesome window manager framework version 4.0 changes

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Post by peatmoss »

mlgh wrote: post #8

If you think that awesome wm is bloated, try dwm on which awesome wm was historically based. The key bindings look the same. After I've noticed that I haven't used 90% of awesome wm functionality, I moved to a dwm which is basically 2k lines of readable C code in a single file and never looked back - it's so easy to configure it to do exactly what you need.

I discovered that my mostly vanilla XMonad was basically the same as DWM. My only gripe with DWM is that I needed to patch the code, compile, and install my own to turn my worthless windows key into the magic window manager key.

I feel like DWM takes non-configurability literally one key too far.

Re: Awesome window manager framework version 4.0 changes

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Post by keithpeter »

petepete wrote: post #2

I used to use and love AwesomeWM for years, super fast, moderately easy to customise and very lightweight. Eventually I switched to Gnome 3 simply because it made configuring wi-fi and power options easier.

I, too, am currently using Gnome Shell (Fedora 25) after some time on dwm [1]. If you have got used to hitting a meta-key and typing a command, then Gnome Shell actually seems quite normal. I used to set the dwm meta key to mod4 for convenience.

These days we have nmtui for wifi and powertop for power management profiles. dwm/awewsome with a desktop file launched from a desktop manager might make more sense these days.

[1] http://www.sohcahtoa.org.uk/pages/linux-dwm-window-manager-o...

Re: Awesome window manager framework version 4.0 changes

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Post by eugeneionesco »

peatmoss wrote: post #11
mlgh wrote: post #8

If you think that awesome wm is bloated, try dwm on which awesome wm was historically based. The key bindings look the same. After I've noticed that I haven't used 90% of awesome wm functionality, I moved to a dwm which is basically 2k lines of readable C code in a single file and never looked back - it's so easy to configure it to do exactly what you need.

I discovered that my mostly vanilla XMonad was basically the same as DWM. My only gripe with DWM is that I needed to patch the code, compile, and install my own to turn my worthless windows key into the magic window manager key. I feel like DWM takes non-configurability literally one key too far.

I agree, it makes no sense NOT to have a ~/.dwm.conf :(

Re: Awesome window manager framework version 4.0 changes

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Post by hashkb »

hsitz wrote: post #6
petepete wrote: post #2

I used to use and love AwesomeWM for years, super fast, moderately easy to customise and very lightweight. Eventually I switched to Gnome 3 simply because it made configuring wi-fi and power options easier.

I use i3 wm and I like it a lot, don't ever want to go back to a non-tiling WM. But I do understand complaints about the hassle of configuring wifi, power options, and other stuff, e.g., sound, display brightness. All of this is done automically by desktop environments; none of it is done by a mere window manager. I wonder whether Awesome is similar to i3 in this regard. On the i3 help forum a good number of question…

Everyone in the i3/etc community is capable of filling in those gaps themselves, or they give up and go to a full DE. I appreciate that these users are leveling up their skills and asking fewer dumb questions. Nothing stopping anyone from releasing something like Spacemacs for i3, but once you spend a little time on your configs, it just gets easy (and fun). YMMV.

Re: Awesome window manager framework version 4.0 changes

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Post by Elv13 »

BeetleB wrote: post #13

Oh dear. Last month I updated awesome on my Gentoo machine, and it broke a lot. Now I'll have to deal with this again !

Well, 3.5 was released in 2012, that's a long update span. Sorry if you were unlucky enough to hit both updates in a row. However note that there isn't as much breaking changes to the API this time around. Most of them just prints a warning.

See the https://awesomewm.org/apidoc/documentation/17-porting-tips.m... . I advice to start from the new rc.lua. This way, the (almost) totality of your changes can be copy pasted back.

(disclaimer: I am one of the dev)

Re: Awesome window manager framework version 4.0 changes

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Post by echelon »

I used to use Awesome during college, and it was as the name suggests, an "awesome" experience.

I am required to use a Mac at work, and I don't have the time to invest in maintaining a config file for a tiling WM on my personal machine anymore. I really miss having a tiling window manager, though...

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