Topic: Awesome window manager (Page 1 of 1)

Hey inmates,

since my new job endowed me with a 24" wide screen monitor,
I've had to get rid of my habit to just maximize everything.
And since I've switched to ubuntu at the same time
(@reiso: finally needed so much scientific software that apt-get alone
outweighted the costs to retrain my muscle memory),
I needed a solution that did not require me to fiddle with window positions & size
all the time.

Enter: Awesome - a tiled windows manager
(in a way replaces your genome desktop) that does it for me .

Basically:
one window => maximized,
two windows => side by side (or win+space later, top/bottom),
three windows => one large, two small...

Plus 'pseudo virtual desktops' called tags (0...9), which have the additional ability to display more
than one tag at once, add in gnome-do and a real filemanager, and I finally have a dream desktop...

(I use the ubuntu packages from Arnaud Guignard on jaunty)

so, what do you guys pimp your linux boxes with?

so long,

->Tyberius Prime

You're in trouble now. Use Wicked at all?

Grab recordmydesktop and show us some action video!

I haven't quite settled on a favorite tiling/dynamic window manager, but I think I might prefer dwm over awesome just a tad (that's right, I'm reductionist even when it comes to tiny wm's!). Still testing all the waters. I probably would just be using Ion if not for the author going batshit crazy. One thing I absolutely cannot stand is focus following the mouse, and tiling window managers seem to love it, so I always have to reconfigure that. :/

On my main computer i'm pretty boring really, just plain Gnome. I have a laptop that I mostly use openbox on with Thunar for the file manager. I like Thunar. It does everything and is pretty lightweight. I do use WMII from time to time on it though. A lot of the people that I speak with use Awesome though and love it.

I had Arch installed on it, updated it and totally lost X. Wasn't a good day. Am thinking about putting Slackware on it now though.

What file manager are you using?

I can't remember what it was about Awesome that I didn't use it much and went for WMII.

@reisio : I'm going to have to give wicked a try. Looks pretty cool. What are you running these days? You used to run Gentoo right?

Later,

C:\

Still Gentoo. Still Xfce until I get unlazy.

haven't played around with wicked yet.

as for focus-follows-mouse; after i've added a script
that makes the unfocused windows partially transparent,
i've grown to like the feature.

I see it as they've made a lovely keyboard-centric wm and then they go and try to handicap people into using the mouse again.