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I always wanted to try out awesome but never had the motivation. Yesterday gnome3 packages started popping up in unstable so I gave it a whirl on an old machine

by dfc 15y ago

I always wanted to try out awesome but never had the motivation. Yesterday gnome3 packages started popping up in unstable so I gave it a whirl on an old machine. The only good thing I can say about gnome3 is that it finally gave me the incentive to make the leap to awesome...its truly awesome.

william42 15y ago
I didn't hate Unity, but I did hate that compiz started randomly crashing my GPU, so I ended up switching to xmonad and then awesome, and I couldn't be happier with awesome.
davidhollander 15y ago
I'm very happy with Awesome running on top of arch linux. If you like the configurability of awesome, also check out luakit: http://luakit.org/projects/luakit/ http://luakit.org/projects/luakit/ It's a lua binding to webkit that allows you to fully customize your web browser as well, with a configuration scheme similar to Awesome. By default it's configured with VIM bindings, imo better than the vimium or vimperator plugins.
- william42 15y ago
  Luakit is definitely an interesting project. I'm checking it out, but I'm not ready to make it my primary browser, if only because the user documentation is bad enough that the best way for me to figure out how to open a URL is to read the configuration files.
  - davidhollander 15y ago
    Search this ArchLinux thread, lots of great tips: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=97375 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=97375 "o" or ":open" plus a url, "t" or ":tabopen" plus a url. "d" closes a tab. Press tab to autocomplete. "B" to add a bookmark. "H"\"L", back\forward in history. To perform a search, simply start your open or tabopen command with "google " or "duckduckgo " etc. If you are on a site that uses javascript keyboard controls, press CTRL-Z to enter pass through mode. ":wq" saves your session (pages that are open will be reloaded next time) and quits. If Javascript doesn't work in gmail or google plus, change > "AppleWebKit/%s.%s+" to > "AppleWebKit/%s.%s+ (KHTML, like Gecko)" in globals.lua and it will.

by dfc 15y ago

william42 15y ago

I didn't hate Unity, but I did hate that compiz started randomly crashing my GPU, so I ended up switching to xmonad and then awesome, and I couldn't be happier with awesome.

davidhollander 15y ago

I'm very happy with Awesome running on top of arch linux. If you like the configurability of awesome, also check out luakit: http://luakit.org/projects/luakit/ http://luakit.org/projects/luakit/ It's a lua binding to webkit that allows you to fully customize your web browser as well, with a configuration scheme similar to Awesome. By default it's configured with VIM bindings, imo better than the vimium or vimperator plugins.

william42 15y ago
Luakit is definitely an interesting project. I'm checking it out, but I'm not ready to make it my primary browser, if only because the user documentation is bad enough that the best way for me to figure out how to open a URL is to read the configuration files.
- davidhollander 15y ago
  Search this ArchLinux thread, lots of great tips: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=97375 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=97375 "o" or ":open" plus a url, "t" or ":tabopen" plus a url. "d" closes a tab. Press tab to autocomplete. "B" to add a bookmark. "H"\"L", back\forward in history. To perform a search, simply start your open or tabopen command with "google " or "duckduckgo " etc. If you are on a site that uses javascript keyboard controls, press CTRL-Z to enter pass through mode. ":wq" saves your session (pages that are open will be reloaded next time) and quits. If Javascript doesn't work in gmail or google plus, change > "AppleWebKit/%s.%s+" to > "AppleWebKit/%s.%s+ (KHTML, like Gecko)" in globals.lua and it will.