On Fri, 05 Feb 2016 19:09:04 +0100, Axel Beckert wrote: > > > Nah. Awesomewm is much better! ;-) > <serious> > Unfortunately no more. I still have awesome on hold on 3.4.15-1 > because 3.5.x is incompatible with the no more updated awesome-extra > package. And without awesome-extra, awesome is far less awesome... :-(
And because 3.5 changed configuration file syntax.
Anyway, good to see I'm not alone:
% apt-cache policy awesome
awesome:
Installed: 3.4.15-1+b1
Candidate: 3.5.6-1
Version table:
3.5.6-1 990
500 http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
990 http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
*** 3.4.15-1+b1 500
500 http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian stable/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
3.4.13-1 500
500 http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian oldstable/main amd64 Packages
> So I wonder if I should switch to i3 which is properly maintained and
> seems to have all the features I need since 4.x...
Same here. My current opinion is: use aweseome as long as it works,
then switch to i3. (I was also late to switch from ion3 to awesome.)
Cheers,
gregor
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