OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/20304/awesome_3_0_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:02:16 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Great news! http://osnews.com/thread?330857 http://osnews.com/thread?330857 I use awesome for some month now, and it is really the best windows manager when you have 2 screen. It handle them almost by itself and windows never appear on both screen at the same if you dont move them manually that way. It also look really good, is fast, customizable and look nice!

My desktop (awesome 2.3)
http://img135.imageshack.us/my.php?image=snapshot25lp9.png Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Elv13) Comments Comment by BSDfan http://osnews.com/thread?330863 http://osnews.com/thread?330863 I said it once, I said it twice... awesome isn't awesome.

Fluxbox > all. Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (BSDfan) Comments RE: Great news! http://osnews.com/thread?330871 http://osnews.com/thread?330871 Very nice desktop.

I see conky lists some of the processes. Can you post your "ps aux", so that we can see the memory consumpton of Awesome and X?

Thanks. Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tupp) Comments Awesome with Gnome is great http://osnews.com/thread?330872 http://osnews.com/thread?330872 I converted to Awesome about six months ago, and never want to go back to manually fiddling with window sizing or placement again.

Awesome works very well as a window manager with Gnome (echo 'export WINDOW_MANAGER=/usr/local/bin/awesome' >~/.gnomerc , and add padding for gnome toolbar in config). This lets me keep the Gnome Panel conveniences and menus. While Awesome has toolbar plugins to offer, they aren't as mature and are much more difficult to configure.

I look forward to trying the new release. Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (braddock) Comments RE[2]: Great news! http://osnews.com/thread?330873 http://osnews.com/thread?330873 I got hundred of firefox tabs open and many X server running with many apps in each virtual desktop, X take -a lot- of memory, but I don't care because I got some. I may edit this post when I will reboot to display a clean one. Sat, 20 Sep 2008 01:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Elv13) Comments RE: Comment by BSDfan http://osnews.com/thread?330876 http://osnews.com/thread?330876 I've never used awesome, but I think that is just *your* opinion. Sat, 20 Sep 2008 01:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (turrini) Comments RE[3]: Great news! http://osnews.com/thread?330879 http://osnews.com/thread?330879 root 8949 5.9 0.8 393356 35804 tty7 RLs+ 21:52 0:06 X :0 -nolisten tcp -br -auth /home/lepagee/.serverauth.8932 -deferglyphs 16 (X= 34mb)

lepagee 8955 1.3 0.4 160872 19756 tty1 S 21:52 0:01 awesome (Awesome with all my script, widget, icons and event = 19mb)

lepagee 8961 0.4 0.8 118084 33960 tty1 S 21:52 0:00 idesk (idesk with the background (3360x1050 uncompressed PNG + 30 png icons) = 33mb)

lepagee 9447 0.2 0.1 38852 8060 pts/1 Sl 21:53 0:00 /usr/bin/ruby18 /usr/bin/amazing (system monitor = 7mb)

lepagee 8958 5.6 0.0 50420 3684 tty1 S 21:52 0:06 conky -c /home/lepagee/.conkyrc5 (conky = 3mb)

Most of this memory is shared (according to ksysguard) awesome use 8mb if I remove shared mem from the count. It is a lot compared to DWM, but I loaded a lot of pixmap and like all "useless feature" (according to suckless group) that they added. Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Elv13) Comments RE[2]: Comment by BSDfan http://osnews.com/thread?330894 http://osnews.com/thread?330894 Right, but my opinion > your opinion. ;) Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (BSDfan) Comments Tiling windows in traditional desktop environments http://osnews.com/thread?330900 http://osnews.com/thread?330900 (A bit off-topic but) I've been hoping that traditional window managers and desktop environments could implement more and better window tiling features too.

A minimalist tiling window manager like Awesome could be a bit too much for me (might be interesting to try it as the window manager of GNOME, however) but of its features I could find lots of use for better window tiling, also in GNOME, Xfce or KDE.

Consider the situation when you have many (GNOME; KDE; Xfce) windows open - on top of each other or at least not using all the desktop space efficiently by default - and you would want to tile and see all the windows simultaneously. What if you could just press a button and tile the windows instantly and automatically - instead of using lots of time dragging the many window borders to make all the windows sit nicely by each other?

Just my € 0.02 worth.

(EDIT: the euro sign I used above didn't show correctly except after replacing the sign with its HTML special character code.)Edited 2008-09-20 17:24 UTC Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (irbis) Comments Using it since 2 monthes http://osnews.com/thread?330901 http://osnews.com/thread?330901 I use AwesomeWM since 2 monthes now, I was searching a nice looking, resources efficient, and screen space optimising WM for my eeePC running debian lenny, and now, I installed it on all my computers excepted the Mac (which runs OS X).
Only thing that disappointed me was the fact that config files are now in lua language instead of the config files of the 2.3.x versions, but it's just a matter of 30 minutes to get used to and get back to a similar configuration.
Efficient, small size, fast, can be entirely keyboard-driven, easily configured if you take some time to learn the syntax, I shouldn't go back to classicals overlapping WMs, especially on the eeepc little screen.

Edit : yeah, i'm an enthusiast ;) Edited 2008-09-20 17:40 UTC Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lidstah) Comments RE[3]: Comment by BSDfan http://osnews.com/thread?330904 http://osnews.com/thread?330904 This is not what our scores show. Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (turrini) Comments RE: Tiling windows in traditional desktop environments http://osnews.com/thread?330906 http://osnews.com/thread?330906

What if you could just press a button and tile the windows instantly and automatically - instead of using lots of time dragging the many window borders to make all the windows sit nicely by each other?


When you start to use a tiling window manager, you find that it is far more than just a layout helper. Much of the utility comes in the ability to instantly manipulate the layout.

Work on three gnome-terminals, the left half of the screen for one, the right half for two others. Instead of shifting focus to a small terminal, shift the windows so that the terminal you are currently focused on is in the large left half of the screen.

Switching between two side-by-side firefox windows, but the left page stubbornly needs more width? Win-l to shift the centerline to the right, Win-h to move it back.

Combine with window "tags" (=virtual desktop, with extras), and a keystroke will throw a window to some other desktop, where it will be nicely laid out for you when you want it later. Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (braddock) Comments RE: Great news! http://osnews.com/thread?330909 http://osnews.com/thread?330909 That's a really nice background / wallpaper, is it downloadable from somewhere? Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (hausesantaclause) Comments RPM? http://osnews.com/thread?330922 http://osnews.com/thread?330922 Does anyone know where I can find a Fedora 9 RPM for this? Or at least know the "yum install" string I can use to install the .tar.gz's compile dependences? Sun, 21 Sep 2008 08:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (frood) Comments