Alex mentioned compositors, which reminded me of a question I should have asked ages ago:
The last time I tried enabling compositing (to get transparent terminals so I can see my wallpapers), I found that using compton led to the terminal text not refreshing fast enough (e.g. while scrolling in ranger or newsbeuter), so I had to disable it. I notice that I can enable transparency in the awesome wm interface itself without problems (using rgba), so I'm not sure exactly what went wrong. Is there currently a solution to this, or has anyone else even had this problem? On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Bruno Ferreira <chal...@chalkos.net> wrote: > @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 <atsep...@gmail.com>: > >> 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 <rayandr...@eastlink.ca> >> 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? >>> >> >> >
