Victor Nitu: > On 11/15/2011 08:42 AM, George wrote: > >> Might I suggest "awesome" window manager? It uses almost no resources, >> can be manipulated entirely with the keyboard (although it also has >> complete mouse support), can be customized extremely easily (although >> the defaults are sane so it is by no means necessary to customize), it >> even has a lua API. > > As far as I remember, this is a tiling WM,
Julien Danjou, the (initial?) lead developer and Debian maintainer tries
his best to avoid that impression. AFAIR, awesome's default
configuration was even changed to a non-tiling layout recently. But yes,
awesome supports tiling very well.
> I had a lot of fun (and frustration) in the past trying out many of
> them, and tiling window managers always seemed the most amazing simple
> pieces of software in the whole ecosystem. It's like running
> byobu+screen, but with X windows.
ACK. My primary machine is a laptop with a 12", 1280x800 screen. I only
use awesome's "max" layout. All programs are simply always maximized.
This makes "managing windows" a complete non-issue for me which is,
surprisingly, quite a relief.
OTOH, while awesome's config file provides for great flexibility, it is
a pain in the rear to set up initially.
J.
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