Re: Some questions from an awesome beginner

2013-10-30 Thread Eugen Dedu
On 29/10/13 19:42, Paweł Rumian wrote: suspend2ram when closing the lid (see below for others)? Use/configure acpid I suppose that many people there use a laptop which suspends when the lid closes. I looked on Internet for maybe one hour without finding how to do it.

Re: Some questions from an awesome beginner

2013-10-30 Thread Paweł Rumian
2013/10/30 Eugen Dedu eugen.d...@pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr: On 29/10/13 19:42, Paweł Rumian wrote: Use/configure acpid Can someone share with me his solution to make suspend on lid closing? I'm not with my laptop right now, but I remember I've used this solution

Re: Some questions from an awesome beginner

2013-10-30 Thread Eugen Dedu
First, thank to all who answered. Next, see below... On 29/10/13 20:14, Andre Klärner wrote: On Tue 29.10.2013 19:42:59, Paweł Rumian wrote: 2013/10/29 Eugen Dedu eugen.d...@pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr: On 29/10/13 14:31, Paweł Rumian wrote: Most of the tasks that you've mentioned above are

Re: Some questions from an awesome beginner

2013-10-30 Thread Gabe Martin
a tag is just a group of applications. rather than minimising and maximising things, you can assign applications to different tags. then, when you want to view those things, you can toggle the tag to be visible along with your current tag, and, when you're done, toggle that tag to be invisible

Re: Some questions from an awesome beginner

2013-10-30 Thread Gerald Klein
Tags in the awesome sense are basically 2 things, one you see them and can use them as something similar to workspaces, 2 you can assign a tag to an app for a tag/workspace it is not currently on and it will appear there also, the fun thing about this is, that the app is not a seperate instance

Re: Some questions from an awesome beginner

2013-10-30 Thread Eugen Dedu
On 30/10/13 16:33, Paweł Rumian wrote: 2013/10/30 Eugen Dedu eugen.d...@pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr: On 29/10/13 19:42, Paweł Rumian wrote: Use/configure acpid Can someone share with me his solution to make suspend on lid closing? I'm not with my laptop right now, but I remember I've used this

Re: Some questions from an awesome beginner

2013-10-30 Thread Eugen Dedu
On 30/10/13 16:49, Gabe Martin wrote: a tag is just a group of applications. rather than minimising and maximising things, you can assign applications to different tags. then, when you want to view those things, you can toggle the tag to be visible along with your current tag, and, when you're

Re: Some questions from an awesome beginner

2013-10-30 Thread zhtlancer
Well, for me, the most benefit would be that I'll always know exactly where an specific application should be, and I can switch to it immediately just by switch tags. For a canonical WM, you may need to use alt-tab and stare to find where one application is... On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:47 PM,

Re: Some questions from an awesome beginner

2013-10-30 Thread Gabe Martin
^ exactly. you can configure awesome to automatically assign an application to a specific tag whenever it's launched. if your work flow is typically less structured than that, you can also use them similar to workspaces, just tossing up whatever things you happen to want on a screen together in

Re: Some questions from an awesome beginner

2013-10-30 Thread Andre Klärner
Hi Eugen, On Wed 30.10.2013 17:01:35, Eugen Dedu wrote: On 30/10/13 16:33, Paweł Rumian wrote: 2013/10/30 Eugen Dedu eugen.d...@pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr: On 29/10/13 19:42, Paweł Rumian wrote: Use/configure acpid Can someone share with me his solution to make suspend on lid closing? I'm not

Re: Some questions from an awesome beginner

2013-10-30 Thread Andre Klärner
Hi Eugen, On Wed 30.10.2013 17:47:58, Eugen Dedu wrote: On 30/10/13 16:49, Gabe Martin wrote: a tag is just a group of applications. rather than minimising and maximising things, you can assign applications to different tags. then, when you want to view those things, you can toggle the tag to

Re: Some questions from an awesome beginner

2013-10-30 Thread Marshall Mason
Hi Eugen, From your work flow, it sounds like awesome is perfect for you. The arrangement of the windows you described sounds ideal for tiling. Find a tiling scheme that works for you, and just let awesome do the arranging for you. Never move or resize windows ever again. It's hard to tell from

Some questions from an awesome beginner

2013-10-29 Thread Eugen Dedu
Hi everybody, I come from gnome fallback and am new to awesome. I am a bit disoriented by the new interface. Is there a gnome-ish style ready? Instead of adding one by one each icon and application, is there an gnome-ish style already written? For ex. with nm-applet, nautilus started for

Re: Some questions from an awesome beginner

2013-10-29 Thread Paweł Rumian
Hello, before I will answer some of your questions, I'd point you to a fundamental difference - while Gnome is a complete desktop environment, awesome is just(?) a window manager. You will need to use some additional tools to get the results you have out-of-the-box in gnome. Gnome also probably

Re: Some questions from an awesome beginner

2013-10-29 Thread Gabe Martin
another thing you could do would be to run awesome on top of a desktop environment, replacing its default window manager. this solution tends to be a bit messy, but can also save a lot of time. i've had a good deal of luck running awesome on top of the MATE desktop, for example.

Re: Some questions from an awesome beginner

2013-10-29 Thread Serge van Ginderachter
intergrating awesome with the gnome backend is fairly easy: http://blog.flowblok.id.au/2012-11/awesome-gnome-configuration.html On 29 October 2013 14:44, Gabe Martin shm...@gmail.com wrote: another thing you could do would be to run awesome on top of a desktop environment, replacing its

Re: Some questions from an awesome beginner

2013-10-29 Thread Enric Morales
On 29 Oct 2013 12:15, Eugen Dedu wrote: Hi everybody, Hi Eugen, I come from gnome fallback and am new to awesome. I am a bit disoriented by the new interface. Is there a gnome-ish style ready? Instead of adding one by one each icon and application, is there an gnome-ish style already

Re: Some questions from an awesome beginner

2013-10-29 Thread Eugen Dedu
Thank you first for your answers. See below. On 29/10/13 14:31, Paweł Rumian wrote: Hello, before I will answer some of your questions, I'd point you to a fundamental difference - while Gnome is a complete desktop environment, awesome is just(?) a window manager. You will need to use some

Re: Some questions from an awesome beginner

2013-10-29 Thread Eugen Dedu
I suppose that you use gnome-panel, is that right? The problem with me is that it is exactly gnome-panel which does not work on my computer, and this since several months now. Now, gnome flashback does not even start on my computer. On 29/10/13 15:14, Serge van Ginderachter wrote:

Re: Some questions from an awesome beginner

2013-10-29 Thread Serge van Ginderachter
On 29 October 2013 16:03, Eugen Dedu eugen.d...@pu-pm.univ-fcomte.frwrote: I suppose that you use gnome-panel, is that right? The problem with me is that it is exactly gnome-panel which does not work on my computer, and this since several months now. Now, gnome flashback does not even start

Re: Some questions from an awesome beginner

2013-10-29 Thread Andre Klärner
Hi Eugen, On Tue 29.10.2013 15:58:12, Eugen Dedu wrote: I noticed how to add some of this *manually*. I searched for a gnome-ish style with all this inside, so that I do not spend hours for it. And, since it uses external programs developed independently of awesome, I fear that I will run

Re: Some questions from an awesome beginner

2013-10-29 Thread Eugen Dedu
On 29/10/13 16:29, Andre Klärner wrote: Hi Eugen, On Tue 29.10.2013 15:58:12, Eugen Dedu wrote: I noticed how to add some of this *manually*. I searched for a gnome-ish style with all this inside, so that I do not spend hours for it. And, since it uses external programs developed

Re: Some questions from an awesome beginner

2013-10-29 Thread Arthur Lugtigheid
On 29 Oct 2013, at 12:08, Eugen Dedu eugen.d...@pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr wrote: Thank you very much for your encouragements and sincere feeling. I am in the same situation like you. I prefer to be in the 3rd attempt... Right now awesome 3.5.1 (last debian version) has some major bugs on

Re: Some questions from an awesome beginner

2013-10-29 Thread Paweł Rumian
2013/10/29 Eugen Dedu eugen.d...@pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr: Thank you first for your answers. See below. On 29/10/13 14:31, Paweł Rumian wrote: Hello, before I will answer some of your questions, I'd point you to a fundamental difference - while Gnome is a complete desktop environment,

Re: Some questions from an awesome beginner

2013-10-29 Thread Paweł Rumian
One more thing - take a look at other tools available at http://suckless.org/ They fit perfectly to a tiling manager, and if one day you'll decide to make a change and use - for example - i3, you can stay with them. Paweł -- To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org.

Re: Some questions from an awesome beginner

2013-10-29 Thread Eugen Dedu
On 29/10/13 19:42, Paweł Rumian wrote: I also notices that the keyboard time before repeating key has changed. Is that right? These things are configured by xset. Since in gnome and in awesome this setting is different, this means that gnome itself modifies this setting, I suppose. Ok, I

Re: Some questions from an awesome beginner

2013-10-29 Thread Andre Klärner
On Tue 29.10.2013 19:42:59, Paweł Rumian wrote: 2013/10/29 Eugen Dedu eugen.d...@pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr: On 29/10/13 14:31, Paweł Rumian wrote: Most of the tasks that you've mentioned above are perfectly doable by simple programs that adhere to Unix philosophy (that 'do one thing good' one).