…no, I did not begin to stutter 
I just tried once again Awesome Window Manager. And I have to admit – it’s brilliant. Awesome is a tiling Window Manager. It was based on dwm at the beginning – but now it is rewritten and many nice features are added.
Awesome has relatively easy to understand configuration file through which you can tweak it to your liking. You can change keyboard shortcuts, colors, fonts etc. And still you can take an advantage of tiling Window Managers – that is – window manager is taking care of the placement of the desktop windows. I find it very relieving and… hm – “Zen”-like.
I used one of the first versions of Awesome in the past – and I’m glad to notice the quick development of it. Awesome is small and very quick (at least here and for me!) but in the same time it supports basic “eye-candy. With the help of xcompmgr, one can acquire shadows and if you set the background with the help of feh + configure your urxvt and xorg, you can also acquire real transparency in terminal.
Today I will just share some screen shots I made. I would also like to share some links with you, I found helpful while editing my .awesomerc. So, here it goes.
Nice introduction to Awesome especially for Arch Linux users
Interesting tread about Awesome on Ubuntu forum
and last but not least – fantastic Wiki by Awesome WM users and developers!
If you are interested in my .awesomerc – hmmm…it’s still “the work in progress” – but, here is the link to pdf with it:
My “personal” awesomerc (for version 2.1)
My “personal” awesomerc (for version 2.2)
And here go those promised above screen shots (click on the thumbnails below to see the bigger version!):
 |
 |
 |
 |
If, by a chance, you like the wallpaper – here is the link (just “click” on the picture below)
Enjoy – and Joyful, Peaceful Easter!
tami
Related post:
4 comments
Comments feed for this article
March 30, 2008 at 2:18 am
Dirk Gently
Very nice setup. I like the dark theme it seems to fit Awesome.
I read about Awesome in the Ubuntu forums and it looks really cool, I just noticed though that I don’t see a menu. Hows that work? Is there a menu available??
March 30, 2008 at 7:20 am
tamihania
I’m glad you like the setup
.
As to your question:
There are different ways to have the menu in Awesome. In the latest git-version you probably can have native menu – I did not check it yet.
In my setup, I use dmenu (the little application used in other tiling WM – dwm and wmii). I launch it via two mini-scripts and assigned keyboard shortcuts.
I will write about it a bit more today in the new post – so, if you are still interested – stay tuned!
Wishing you nice Sunday,
tami
May 11, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Awesome-git + conky in the panel « tami’s adventures in LinuxLand
[...] Awesome Awesome! [...]
July 1, 2008 at 4:57 pm
shearn89
hey – just to say I just came across this, and thanks for linking to my awesomeWM howto! I’m really chuffed. Also, i’ve been trying to compile the latest version using the awesome-git pkgbuild from AUR, and keep running into an error thats really annoying. any help (if you know enough about it) would be greatly appreciated! just pm me on the ubuntuforums if you’re a member. If not, i can give you my email.