Hello, I investigated xephyr. Unfortunately, archlinux package doesn't compile for me :(. I will put some effort into that. It might be good way to go but still, my point was different - I think rc.lua approach is sometimes little too difficult.
Anyway, thanks for your opinion. Regards David On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Damien Leone <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello, > > On 22 Jan - 14:15, dante4d wrote: > > I wonder what you guys do when awesome changes it's rc.lua structure and > your > > rc.lua stops working. I always have to hand check and rewrite my rc.lua, > > wasting about 30 minutes of time. Is that intended? > > If awesomerc.lua has changed a lot, I usually start by checking if my > rc.lua would still work by running awesome in a nested X server (such > as Xephyr), thus I won't crash my current session, then I would look > at the X errors log file (~/.xsession-errors, or Xephyr's output) > which will indicate me what lines of my config are not correct and > then compare it with the provided rc.lua. > > This takes me about 5 min. > Cheers, > > -- > Damien Leone >
