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Does anyone know if Awesome has a one-workspace-per-monitor option yet? That's one of the things that drew me to xmonad instead. When you have multiple monitors

Does anyone know if Awesome has a one-workspace-per-monitor option yet? That's one of the things that drew me to xmonad instead. When you have multiple monitors, being able to change the workspace on each one individually is very useful.

tessellated 14y ago
Have not used this functionality. As I understand it's allready there, but a pain to configure, judging by the countless threads that come up on the mailing list about it.
- gizmo686 14y ago
  I'm running awesome 3.4. In this version the functionality is there by default.
mediocregopher 14y ago
As long as I've used awesome (probably 6 months to a year now) I've been able to change my different monitor's workspaces independently using the default rc.lua. Edit: Based on tessellated's response I may not be understanding the question. By workspace are you referring to the different "desktops" you can reach through the numbered boxes on the upper left (in the default config)?
- w1ntermute 14y ago
  > By workspace are you referring to the different "desktops" you can reach through the numbered boxes on the upper left (in the default config)? Yes, it looks like awesome's "desktops" are equivalent to xmonad's "workspaces". From awesome's home page: > Real multihead support (XRandR, Xinerama or Zaphod mode) with per screen desktops (tags); It looks like support is there. I might give it a shot again, but tessellated's comment about the difficulty of configuration isn't encouraging, particularly when I already have a working xmonad configuration with most of what I want.
  - mediocregopher 14y ago
    In that case I (and tcoppi it seems) have never known it to not work. But I'm using the nvidia driver/xorg setup scripts, so maybe it does require some fiddling if you're doing all that by hand.
tcoppi 14y ago
It's been like that for as long as I have used awesome (since 2.0ish, a few years now)
hogu 14y ago
My understanding was that the key difference between awesome/xmonad workspaces, was that on awesome,you get X workspaces per screen, and on xmonad, you get X workspaces that you can display on any screens. The main difference being that xmonad makes it easy to move a workspace from one screen to another (useful, if you have a laptop and you're unplugging a monitor), whereas in awesome when you remove an external monitor, you go for 2X workspaces to X workspaces and things are moved around. Can anyone confirm my understanding of this?
burntsushi 14y ago
You might also want to check out Wingo [1], which was specifically built with this feature in mind. It's a hybrid floating/tiling window manager with simple configuration. [1] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/wingo https://github.com/BurntSushi/wingo

tessellated 14y ago

Have not used this functionality. As I understand it's allready there, but a pain to configure, judging by the countless threads that come up on the mailing list about it.

gizmo686 14y ago
I'm running awesome 3.4. In this version the functionality is there by default.

mediocregopher 14y ago

As long as I've used awesome (probably 6 months to a year now) I've been able to change my different monitor's workspaces independently using the default rc.lua. Edit: Based on tessellated's response I may not be understanding the question. By workspace are you referring to the different "desktops" you can reach through the numbered boxes on the upper left (in the default config)?

w1ntermute 14y ago
> By workspace are you referring to the different "desktops" you can reach through the numbered boxes on the upper left (in the default config)? Yes, it looks like awesome's "desktops" are equivalent to xmonad's "workspaces". From awesome's home page: > Real multihead support (XRandR, Xinerama or Zaphod mode) with per screen desktops (tags); It looks like support is there. I might give it a shot again, but tessellated's comment about the difficulty of configuration isn't encouraging, particularly when I already have a working xmonad configuration with most of what I want.
- mediocregopher 14y ago
  In that case I (and tcoppi it seems) have never known it to not work. But I'm using the nvidia driver/xorg setup scripts, so maybe it does require some fiddling if you're doing all that by hand.

tcoppi 14y ago

It's been like that for as long as I have used awesome (since 2.0ish, a few years now)

hogu 14y ago

My understanding was that the key difference between awesome/xmonad workspaces, was that on awesome,you get X workspaces per screen, and on xmonad, you get X workspaces that you can display on any screens. The main difference being that xmonad makes it easy to move a workspace from one screen to another (useful, if you have a laptop and you're unplugging a monitor), whereas in awesome when you remove an external monitor, you go for 2X workspaces to X workspaces and things are moved around. Can anyone confirm my understanding of this?

burntsushi 14y ago

You might also want to check out Wingo [1], which was specifically built with this feature in mind. It's a hybrid floating/tiling window manager with simple configuration. [1] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/wingo https://github.com/BurntSushi/wingo