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Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Talk => Extension requests => Topic started by: _blue4meridian on November 14, 2011, 04:39:50 PM

Title: Awesome Window Manager
Post by: _blue4meridian on November 14, 2011, 04:39:50 PM

The "Awesome Window Manager" seems very interesting...

wikipage:@http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awesome_(window_manager)
homepage:@http://awesome.naquadah.org/

Title: Re: Awesome Window Manager
Post by: Laudan on November 28, 2011, 03:28:20 AM

It IS very interesting. And it is scriptable in Lua!

Title: Re: Awesome Window Manager
Post by: _blue4meridian on April 05, 2012, 06:57:23 AM

It's also fast and stable.  And the only tiling manager to date completely converted from xlib to xcb.  If Awesome goes repo I can put off the learning curve (it's gonna be a long, long time... so maybe someone else might do it) for learning compiling a little longer.  At the same time I think really it's a keeper so... if the only game in town is postiing an extension I guess it's time to dust off the slide ruler and break out the lab coat :(

Title: Re: Awesome Window Manager
Post by: solorin on April 05, 2012, 08:25:07 AM

do it.

Title: Re: Awesome Window Manager
Post by: Rich on April 05, 2012, 08:39:25 AM

Hi _blue4meridian

Quote

if the only game in town is postiing an extension ...

You of course meant  submitting an extension  since posting an extension is against the forum rules.

Title: Re: Awesome Window Manager
Post by: _blue4meridian on April 06, 2012, 01:43:26 AM

Of course,
Anyway... I think that this approach to window management is more organized that the more popular stacking desktop metaphor.  At least for me, it's simpler to have everything laid out instead of lots of minimizing and stuff.