archlinux ftw!

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 1:00 PM, dante4d <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>>
>
>

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