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 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 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

Bugs when titlebar is on

2013-10-29 Thread Eugen Dedu
Hi again, I turned on titlebars by modifying: local titlebars_enabled = false to this: local titlebars_enabled = true Is this the right thing? With this, I experience two bugs which do not appear otherwise. 1. Opening a gnome-terminal by right-clicking in a gnome-terminal shows a

Order of apps in statusbar

2013-10-29 Thread Eugen Dedu
Hi again, I notice that as apps are executed, their icon in the statusbar are added at left. For ex., the statusbar has a, b and c. When I start d, the statusbar becomes d, a, b, c. I would like to become a, b, c, d. How to achieve that? And why is the default right-to-left instead of

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: surviving as a windows user

2013-10-29 Thread Eugen Dedu
On 29/10/13 16:36, Andre Klärner wrote: Hi guys, as my post to Eugen's thread has reminded me, does anyone of you have to use a microsoft windows (e.g. at work)? I am stuck with it, with no way to get around using windows, but every day I am once again struck again by the stupidity of using

Re: Bugs when titlebar is on

2013-10-30 Thread Eugen Dedu
On 29/10/13 17:55, Eugen Dedu wrote: Hi again, I turned on titlebars by modifying: local titlebars_enabled = false to this: local titlebars_enabled = true Is this the right thing? Anyone confirming that this is the right thing to do to enable titlebars? I also noticed an issue

Re: Order of apps in statusbar

2013-10-30 Thread Eugen Dedu
On 29/10/13 18:05, Eugen Dedu wrote: Hi again, I notice that as apps are executed, their icon in the statusbar are added at left. For ex., the statusbar has a, b and c. When I start d, the statusbar becomes d, a, b, c. I would like to become a, b, c, d. How to achieve that? And why

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 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

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

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: awesome ignores changes in screen resolution

2013-11-20 Thread Eugen Dedu
On 20/11/13 15:30, Kasimir Knallkopf wrote: Awesome awesomely dynamically adjusts to the current screen resolution. For example, when using beautiful or fbsetbg, it correctly scales the wallpaper. However, when changing the resolution, for instance after switching from the laptop screen to an

Delayed autoraise

2014-03-31 Thread Eugen Dedu
Hi all, I have been using awesome since a few months now, but there is one thing I really miss: sloppy focus with autoraise after some delay. I modified rc.lua from client.connect_signal(focus, function(c) c.border_color = beautiful.border_focus end) to client.connect_signal(focus,

Re: Delayed autoraise

2014-03-31 Thread Eugen Dedu
On 31/03/14 12:56, Uli Schlachter wrote: Hi, On 31.03.2014 11:06, Eugen Dedu wrote: I have been using awesome since a few months now, but there is one thing I really miss: sloppy focus with autoraise after some delay. I modified rc.lua from client.connect_signal(focus, function(c