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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

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I've done my best to address your requirements. *I have dual monitors, and I can't drag anything between monitors.* This will definitely not be an issue, if you hold the Mod4 key (usually windows key) you can drag windows around in the "grid" of the screen and between screens. *I hate trying

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

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2015-09-08 23:06 GMT+02:00 Ray Andrews : > 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

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The window resizing is slightly different and better imo than regular wm. By default mouse can only interact with the contents of the window, but holding windows key (mod4) makes mouse interact with the window itself. If you hold windows and left-click, you will drag the window around. If you hold

Re: advice

As Alexander said above, just go and try it, really. There is no risk involved. Personally I can say that Awesome is one of two best things that happened to me in the Un*x world in last years (the second one is mastering Vim). But I was immediately hooked to the idea of tiling WM, and just tried

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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

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

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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

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@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.