2012/4/30 Hans Georg Schaathun <[email protected]>: > I'll have a look at i3, but awesome's claim of complete keyboard control > and the first wm to go beyond Xlib was so promising that I stopped > looking for other wm-s :-) Having the floating layout available > will definitely smoothen the learning curve of awesome... > How is i3 for comparison?
Up to my knowledge i3 is also using xcb, allows floating layout and can of course be driven by keyboard only. The main differences from awesome are: manual tiling (no predefined layouts) and modal operation (like vi). Still I have not used i3 long enough to do a fair comparison, as the lack of per-screen tags was driving me mad and I went back to awesome with a real relief :) > It is not important that the taglist be global per se. What is most > important is a tag can move freely between screens in one operation. Ah, it really looks like a a different thing than global pool of tags :) As my daily workflow is somewhat similar to your example (web browser on one monitor, LaTeX/Python on the second one and live output on the third one) I think I can understand what you are thinking about. I am not sure, but maybe changing screens order in xrandr 'on the fly' would do the job? I do not know how awesome would behave when changing defined primary screen, but you might give it a try. br, Paweł -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
