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I used XMonad for many, many years. During these years it served me well and I really loved it. However I switched to AwesomeWM about 2 years ago and couldn't b
by Sembiance 10y ago
I used XMonad for many, many years. During these years it served me well and I really loved it. However I switched to AwesomeWM about 2 years ago and couldn't be happier. I was able to easily make Awesome behave just like xmonad for parts I cared about, so the transition was pretty painless.
Top 3 reasons I switched:
1. Multi monitor support is far better with awesome and it worked perfectly out of the box with my 3 displays.
2. Programs that were a bit glitchy under xmonad had no such glitches under awesome.
3. LUA configuration files make it far easier for me to customize behavior and extended it. With Xmonad's Haskell I always felt like a noob.
- jon-wood 10y agoIn what way is multi monitor support better? In my opinion nothing comes close, I've not used anything else which considers each display an independent workspace and let's you move those workspaces between displays.
- monsieurbanana 10y agoIt's been years since I used AwesomeWM and haven't tried xmonad (yet). But if I remember correctly, those are the exacts features why I liked awesomewm, independent workspaces that you can move between displays.
- dualogy 10y ago> Programs that were a bit glitchy under xmonad had no such glitches under awesome What sorts of programs, what kinds of glitches?
- Symmetry 10y agoFor certain Java apps you have to set an environment variable to tell them that your window manager has a different name for them to run properly. Mostly things based off of old versions of Eclipse.
- Symmetry 10y agoI used to run AwesomeWM and liked it a lot. But I decided I wanted to go back to running a desktop environment and run a tiling WM within one. There are things I miss but I actually like XMonad's approach to multiple displays better.