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User who did this - Roger Gallion (noillagr)
Attached to Project - awesome
Summary - Simplify merging of 'common' rc.lua customizations into new awesome
releases
Task Type - Evolution Request
Category - Core
Status - Unconfirmed
Assigned To -
Operating System - All
Severity - Low
Priority - Normal
Reported Version - 3.4
Due in Version - Undecided
Due Date - Undecided
Details - I love awesome, but merging personal rc.lua customizations into new
releases is often too time-consuming. Perhaps if developers were aware of
common rc.lua customizations users make, then the situation would improve.
Here is a short list of possible customizations:
- Having fewer than 9 tags per screen
- Reducing/re-ordering the 'layouts' table entries
- Having a user-defined default screen layout
- Having no main menu
- Having custom date/time format for the textclock widget
- Defining modkey-0 to cycle through screens
- Adding awful.key entries for special keys (volume/cd/etc.)
- Defining 'floating' apps
- Defining tag-specific apps
This request was trigger by the recent upgrade to awesome 3.4 on ArchLinux. It appears that the default layout for 3.4 is 'floating', but since floating was disabled in my
rc.lua 'layouts' table, problems ensued. Investigation revealed that awful/layout/init.lua returns suit.floating if the layout property has not been defined for a screen tag. Modifying the init.lua file was undesirable. Considerable further investigation was required to discover that the awful.tag.new function has a 'layout' parameter to set the default layout for new screen tags. Unfortunately the rc.lua distributed with 3.4 does not set that parameter.
I would not wish to have rc.lua locked down, since it provides customizable
access to new awesome functionality. But every time my rc.lua customizations
are broken by new awesome releases, I go investigate the state of other tiling
window managers. Perhaps I am not the only one to do so.
More information can be found at the following URL:
http://awesome.naquadah.org/bugs/index.php?do=details&task_id=668
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