Re: random wallpaper without in .xinitrc

2011-03-30 Thread Sammy Fischer
check https://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Cycling_Random_Wallpaper_Or_Xscreensaver (I apologize for any seizure due to the awefull coding style) if you don't need the whole timer things, you just need this line in your rc.lua : os.execute(awsetbg -T -r /usr/share/wallpapers) On Wed, 30 Mar

Re: XCB support in cairo phased out?

2011-03-21 Thread Sammy Fischer
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:07:07 +0100 Mika Fischer mika.fisc...@zoopnet.de wrote: Hi, it seems that in the latest versions of ArchLinux and OpenSuSE (and maybe others), cairo is being built without support for xcb. This makes it impossible to build awesome on these distributions. The

Re: advices for a presentation of Awesome

2010-05-27 Thread Sammy Fischer
One of the things which impresses people constantly when I show Awesome is the way tags work more akin to layers in photoshop or gimp than to ~standard~ virtual desktops. I must confess that it's also my favourite feature. Another thing that impresses is the ability to work both, as a standard