Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Fri 19th Sep 2008 20:25 UTC, submitted by Julien Danjou
After 6 months of development and more than 1000 change sets, the final version of awesome 3.0 has been released. 'awesome' is a frame-work window manager, which also supports tiling window management. This major release brings a lot of new features. The whole configuration file is now write in the Lua language and use a simple API. This allows to modify and control every corner of the window manager. This version is based on XCB, a new low level library which communicate with the X server. Pango usage also enhances text rendering.
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2005-07-08
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.