Beginner tutorial: Awesome WM, a tiling window manager

hhh · 2019-04-29 05:09:50

PackRat wrote:

Lovely. What's the code to keep the window-list in the panel @ ~200px like you have it? Is it possible to just display icons with no title text?
That's xfce4-panel; so unchecking the "show labels" for the window button item will show icons only. The button width is in the gtk theme isn't it? User should be able to use tint2 instead if desired.

Lol, nice config. I thought it was tint2.

I'll troubleshoot later, tough day at the office. Thanks for the suggestions!

hhh · 2019-04-29 05:22:24

PackRat wrote:

For that conky clock, you may just want to go with "own_window = false" and let it draw directly to the desktop.

Cannot recommend, both awesome and openbox WMs went all Five-0 with the blinking and the flashing, I had to drop to the console to fix it.

PackRat · 2019-04-29 12:09:36

Lovely. What's the code to keep the window-list in the panel @ ~200px like you have it? Is it possible to just display icons with no title text?

Regular tint2 taskbar button configuration.

If a user runs awesome as the window manager for xfce4 desktop enironment, the default BL tint2 should work out of the box.
No, tint2 location still messed up.

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bigbenaugust · 2019-04-29 16:05:32

I use awesome, but have stuck with the Debian defaults, only changing the font to Terminus-12, adding Alt+Win+L to lock, and disabling a few of the tiling options (but not all of them like upthread).

wrobat · 2019-06-26 01:57:00

I just installed awesome and was able to login but after I made the 3 config files I get kicked back to the login. I did a copy and paste on the files and made sure the names are correct. Once I remove the files I can login again. I feel like I did something really stupid.
I appreciate all your help. Thank you.

deanr72 · 2021-03-28 08:22:35

This is great.

I've been playing with awesomewm over the last month or so and there's something about it I really like. I'm only on #3 of your thread so far but wanted to say here and now that I really appreciate the time and effort you've put into this.

Much obliged.

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sleekmason · 2021-03-28 22:27:36

deanr72 wrote:

This is great.
I've been playing with awesomewm over the last month or so and there's something about it I really like. I'm only on #3 of your thread so far but wanted to say here and now that I really appreciate the time and effort you've put into this.
Much obliged.

Thank you for finding this! @hhh this looks . . . great:) Bookmarked.

PackRat · 2021-03-29 00:08:44

wrobat wrote:

I just installed awesome and was able to login but after I made the 3 config files I get kicked back to the login. I did a copy and paste on the files and made sure the names are correct. Once I remove the files I can login again. I feel like I did something really stupid.
I appreciate all your help. Thank you.

@wrobat - did you ever figure out what the error was that caused this?

DeepDayze · 2021-03-29 01:25:01

PackRat wrote:

hhh wrote:
PackRat wrote:
Users need to keep in mind that lua (and therefore awesome) is not always backwards compatible
Just erring on the side of caution. I originally mentioned jessie as a marginal case, anyway.
lua code is also not necessarily compatible from one rc.lua to another even though the versions of awesome/lua are the same. I'm finding that out right now trying to port some keybindings for window movement over from the ArchLabs config to my own config. Can't bring the bindings and helper function over directly; going to need to translate some additional lua to get them working.
Curse you for getting me started on this 8o

Even different versions of Lua will trip you up.

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