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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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.