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What kind of things does Awesome excel at what i3 can't or doesn't do well? (Awesome user here)
by Bjoern 13y ago
What kind of things does Awesome excel at what i3 can't or doesn't do well? (Awesome user here)
- lake99 13y agoI have dabbled with many WMs, including i3. I have settled on awesome. These are the shortcomings of i3 for my usage. 1. Multimonitor. i3 has 9 tags that are shared between all attached monitors. So, if you have 3 monitors, the distribution of tags may turn out to be [1,4,5,6], [2,8], [3,7,9]. You can move tags from monitor to monitor, but AFAIK, you can't exceed 9. I have a habit of keeping email, browser, music player, and chat program on one tab each. So, this limitation of 9 tags just kills it for me. 2. awesome has better placement of floating windows. 3. Vertical task/status bar. This is a minor issue, but I wish i3 comes with one. If i3 fixes these things, I'd switch to it in a heartbeat. i3 has a saner config, and a much more elegant tiling layout.
- bitwize 13y agoYou can certainly have more than 9 tags on i3. In fact you can have tags with arbitrary names. They are a bit more difficult to manage with the default config, because only the default 9 have keybindings. But you can create your own tags and bind keys to assign windows to them or switch to them with a custom config. You can also use a tabbed window layout (Super + E) to keep multiple programs full-screen on one tag. Then you can switch between them with the tabs at the top or Super + J, Super + ;.