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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 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 don't understand this comment ... possibly because I have not used modern X (gnome, KDE, whatever) very much at all ...
How is configuring wifi and power a window manager issue ? Isn't there an application for wifi config that everyone on Linux uses, regardless of WM ?
I use FreeBSD and OSX and my FreeBSD wifi config is all done via the command line, but I always assumed there was a nice "wifi config" app for Linux ... you are saying that is part of the window manager and is different for all of them ?
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 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.
"Eventually I switched to Gnome 3 simply because it made configuring wi-fi and power options easier." I don't understand this comment ... possibly because I have not used modern X (gnome, KDE, whatever) very much at all ... How is configuring wifi and power a window manager issue ? Isn't there an application for wifi config that everyone on Linux uses, regardless of WM ? I use FreeBSD and OSX and my FreeBSD wifi conf…
Some screenshots: * https://awesomewm.org/images/screen.png * http://imgur.com/I7eL5it * http://imgur.com/a/thZiW * https://s15.postimg.org/xo9zg2vzf/pick4.png (disclaimer: I am one of the dev; the first 2 screenshots are not mine)
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.
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"Eventually I switched to Gnome 3 simply because it made configuring wi-fi and power options easier." I don't understand this comment ... possibly because I have not used modern X (gnome, KDE, whatever) very much at all ... How is configuring wifi and power a window manager issue ? Isn't there an application for wifi config that everyone on Linux uses, regardless of WM ? I use FreeBSD and OSX and my FreeBSD wifi conf…
It is on my box. I'm running Ubuntu on this one. Like with Windows, there's an icon for networking. It automatically connects if it's Ethernet. If wireless, clicking it displays a list of access points to use. Clicking on a protected one asks for a password. It saves the password then just connects to it anytime it's near. Pretty simple but probably distro-specific app.
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.