@ray I like the configurations that get installed with Manjaro Awesome respin (https://github.com/Culinax/manjaro-awesome-respin). The initial configuration may be too minimal. I don't know if you need to install packages besides awesome to use this config. use the virtual machine first.
@alexander try searching for "awesome wm" instead of just "awesome" Cumprimentos, Bruno Ferreira 2015-09-08 19:14 GMT+01:00 Alexander Tsepkov <[email protected]>: > Not sure what you want to hear. If you've expecting to hear a sales pitch > on awesome, I don't think there is a need, you're installing a free wm, not > buying a car, just test it in virtualbox first if you're worried. If you're > asking about specific features of a modern wm, they're all there - some not > through vm itself (for example I installed awesome on top of xfce and use > thunar file manager, and several xfce widgets). It's been a while since I > installed awesome, I didn't like the idea of tiling wms at first, but now > got so used to it I installed hammerspoon on my OSX to emulate it. > > Awesome works fine out of the box, I don't remember if I had to do > anything to get my dual-monitors working but xrandr drives that and I > mapped windows+P to switch between display setups via bash script. One > thing to note is that keyboard shortcuts weren't intuitive to me right away > so I switched some around. The default theme is also pretty ugly, but > replacing it with one of preset ones from github is pretty easy ( > https://github.com/copycat-killer/awesome-copycats). It also doesn't come > with a compositor at first (so no shadows or transparent windows you may be > used to), but that's a good thing since it gives you more flexibility. I > use compton as my compositor and really like it. Unless you plan to > customize your look and feel, you don't really need much lua. There are > available widgets like volume, networking, etc. you can plug in (and will > need to do if your theme doesn't already come with them). My only pet peeve > with awesome is it's name, try googling for anything regarding awesome and > see how often the first page contains a relevant result. > > On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Ray Andrews <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Gentlemen, >> >> I use xfce, it's fine, but I want something lighter. All I really want >> is the xfwm part of it, and even that window manager has its defects. I >> have dual monitors, and I can't drag anything between monitors. I hate >> trying to configure things using those stupid pop up dialogue boxes. >> I'd like text configuration files that I can edit, save, backup and >> restore. >> >> Awesome seems well spoken of. What can you guys tell me? I can't think >> what to specifically ask. It would be nice if it worked sensibly out of >> the box. I don't need fancy effects. I want windows on screens that I >> can resize, maximize, minimize, etc. Nice if they snap to borders to >> avoid wasted space. Xfce gives normally six or so desktops than you can >> change to, that's good. The mouse has to work. I need custom keyboard >> shortcuts. Basically nothing strange. I don't want to have to spend >> six months learning Lua. I want a simple, predictable, configurable WM >> that is usable but doesn't bother me with bells and whistles. >> >> Advice? >> > >
