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I am an Xmonad user that tried Awesome, and the main thing that didn't work for me is that it seemed that Awesome workspaces (tags) were tied to particular moni
by daniel_solano 15y ago
I am an Xmonad user that tried Awesome, and the main thing that didn't work for me is that it seemed that Awesome workspaces (tags) were tied to particular monitors. Perhaps I just didn't take the time to figure out how to do it properly, but that was a deal-breaker for me.
In Xmonad, I have configured twenty different workspaces, and I can easily swap them in and out of any given monitor. With a triple-monitor configuration, this is quite handy.
- dfc 15y agoThat's what did it for me too. I'm sure there is a way in awesome to do it but its not as easy as xmonad. Xmonad seems to not get in the way as much as awesome. For my purposes xmonad is just a lot simpler, but I am sure I am barely scratching the surface feature wise. A lot of the awesome docs/screenshots reminded me of enlightenment-porn back when e17 seemed like vaporware. I don't need crazy graphs/apps/eye-candy just help me arrange organize my windows and go away.
- Symmetry 15y agoThe crazy stuff doesn't come with a base awesome install, that's stuff people added on their own. The base install looks like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Awesome_screenshot.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Awesome_screenshot.png XMonad _is_ simpler, since awesome comes with a taskbar, system tray, and clock by default.