On Tue 29.10.2013 10:46:14, Wayne Werner wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Andre Klärner <[email protected]> wrote: > > as my post to Eugen's thread has reminded me, does anyone of you have to > > use a microsoft windows (e.g. at work)? I am stuck with it, with no way to > > get around using windows, but every day I am once again struck again by the > > stupidity of using windows.. > > > > Has anyone of you to deal with something alike and found a solution, how to > > at least get something awesome-like as a window manager? If there anything > > that can lessen the pain? ;) > > I use WinSplit Revolution and VirtuaWin. > > It gets me "close enough" to not scream in frustration.
Well, I tried things like these two in the past, but they were not really what I'd expected. They are most often only half the way to like awesome works. I think awesome is simply too awesome to be mimicked.. ;) > Of course, if it's not against your corporate rules, I'd just run a linux > VM on top of Windows. Well, I did this. First with only a VM in a screen, later by using the VM with an USB-Displaylink device as graphics output. But the VM was always limited by the slow-as-hell scheduler from windows. Later I swapped the places of windows and linux, ran linux on bare metal and windows within a virtualbox, which worked perfectly until the network security decided to employ a network based security system that locked my laptop out too often, with only the IT support guys being able to unlock it. So I had to switch back to using windows physically. The main bummer with the linux-vm solution were speed (as awesome itself is really fast, but the graphics of the vm couldn't keep up) and the most annoying piece is, that there is no way to disable the Win-L hotkey, which I used too often in awesome.. And I can't to another modkey, as Ctrl is awkward and Alt already used in too many applications. > If you have a dual monitor setup like I do, then the rare occasions that > you actually *do* need something in windows, you can setup something like > tinyvnc so you really don't have to leave the comforts of home. Yeah, the displaylink setup explicitly exploited that by keeping windows in single-screen mode on the laptop and linux with awesome via displaylink on the external screen. I'd love to have something like splittable graphics cards for pci-redirection of only the external connector ;) Regards, Andre -- Andre Klärner
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