Re: Lua versus any other programming language
On 12/22/2015 07:49 AM, Julien Danjou wrote: ... It now seems obvious it should have been Lisp (probably Guile), but well, history is history, and Lua is probably good enough! :) Cheers, How refreshingly honest. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org.
Re: advice
Thanks for the replies all. It is also good to know there's a helpful community attached to awesome. On 09/08/2015 01:08 PM, Kristoffer Ryhl-Johansen wrote: ... /The mouse has to work./ The mouse moves around when you move your physical mouse around, and clicks on things when you press the physical button on the mouse. I'm not sure what kind of answer you're expecting here. Just that I can resize by grabbing edges, and drag windows around with the mouse ... all the things I'm used to ... unless of course there are now better ways. /I need custom keyboard shortcuts./ In the configuration file you have a list of keyboard commands, so you can just add your own. They can perform arbitrary lua code. Can they call external programs? I expect so. I wrote something in C for jumping my mouse pointer around, it's very simple but it works and there's nothing like it in xfce, mind I expect that awesome will be able to do the same sort of thing natively.
Re: advice
On 09/08/2015 02:02 PM, Paweł Rumian wrote: If awesome won't appeal to you, you can give i3 a try - I remember that I liked it really a lot - in some aspects more than awesome. Paweł That's the other one I'm thinking of trying. From what I hear, it's 'easier' but less powerful. How would you rate them side by side? They say the docs are better and it's plain text config. But they will not have such a helpful community ;-) -- To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org.
advice
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?
