I love awesome! I probably won't use 4.0 for a while as I'm still rocking ubuntu 14.04. But I'm excited for all the new stuff that I'll eventually learn to use.
Awesome window manager framework version 4.0 changes
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Re: Awesome window manager framework version 4.0 changes
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 :(
Yes it does. It's that much code that needs to parse config files and translate it to useful configuration. Oh and of course it needs to be backwards-compatible.
The dwm authors believe there already is something to write your configuration, parse it, test that its syntax is valid and use it to configure the thing: the C toolchain.
Re: Awesome window manager framework version 4.0 changes
#43Using the opportunity to ask other awesome users: How do you configure floating popup windows so that the display decently? The Skype user profile windows, or the firefox ssl certificate warning dialog are the kind of windows I'm talking about. The few other awesome users I know don't have an answer for this either. This is the last outstanding configuration issue I have with awesome.
I had this back when I used awesome (3.5)
https://github.com/gdamjan/dotfiles/blob/master/User/_config...