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Xmonad/awesome (haven't tried i3) are absolutely fantastic, however, in my experience, you need to spend some days tweaking configuration files in order to achi
by mercurial 14y ago
Xmonad/awesome (haven't tried i3) are absolutely fantastic, however, in my experience, you need to spend some days tweaking configuration files in order to achieve a satisfying experience (especially if you want dual-screen support to work in a less... interesting way in Xmonad). From what parent was writing, this is exactly what s/he does not want to do.
- icambron 14y agoFunny, the default dual-screen behavior on Xmonad was what sold me on it.
- regularfry 14y agoI found the awesomewm defaults good enough to be useful out of the box on Squeeze. I've made some minor tweaks since then, but nothing major.
- jlgreco 14y agoYeah, the only thing I have ever customized with Awesome is changing the default terminal to xterm. After that it just does exactly what I expect, and doesn't get in my way; I don't know what more I could ask for.
- spion 14y agoIn my experience i3 doesn't require any tweaking. It has really sane defaults about pretty much everything. If you do want to configure something, the configuration file is extremely simple and the documentation is really excellent. The default behavior when using a dual screen setup is each screen having some of the workspaces.
- wting 14y agoComing from Metacity, Xmonad's handling of dual screen is definitely different but I prefer it now. Instead of treating both screens as an extended single desktop, each screen is on it's own desktop. This allows me to mix and match desktops at will (most common with documentation), or I love swapping the two screens with each other with this line in my xmonad.hs (https://gist.github.com/2657206 https://gist.github.com/2657206): ("M4-<Esc>", swapNextScreen)