Awsome 3.0 is out.

dpc · 2008-09-18 15:00:07

Happiness and joy!!!

http://awesome.naquadah.org/download/

It requires newest version of xlib-xcb. I'm using AUR -git versions but I guess it is the time to make official realase PKGBUILDs.

sand_man · 2008-09-18 23:14:35

It's been out for quite a while. It's been out long enough to make people vomit at the sight of the config file.

Vintendo · 2008-09-18 23:22:26

/me Agrees with sandman, the config file was so pretty.

Anyhow, xmonad is much better imo.

Last edited by Vintendo (2008-09-18 23:23:20)

iBertus · 2008-09-19 04:35:57

Yeah, I found that awesome 2.3 was too limited, but 3.0 was crap with the stupid config file. What were they thinking?

Pnevma · 2008-09-19 05:36:55

Uh, what's so bad about the new config file? I know it became more complicated. But from what I understand, the new configuration makes customization nearly limitless.

Anyways, I'm using 3.0 and love it. Hopefully within a few weeks time it'll be in the community repo.

dpc · 2008-09-19 07:12:09

IMO Awesome 3.0 rules. Lua is such a nice and tiny language. I guess it is only a matter of time until someone writes a tool that generates lua code from something like awesome-2.x config file.

Husio · 2008-09-19 07:20:09

With Lua, you can write how awesome should work. And it's not so hard to write configuration file. Lua is really easy.

Mikko777 · 2008-09-19 12:59:32

Yup awesome3 rocks. lol @ xmonads config file

Features:

-It has a tray (no need for extra apps)
-It has a runner win+f1 (no need for extra apps)
-Dynamic tabs (eminent)
-Theme files, can set backrounds (no need for extra apps)
-Fast
-Widgets (no need for extra apps)

So pretty much has all you need without having to put tons of stuff in .xinitrc

timetrap · 2008-09-19 13:08:19

Yeah, lua is ugly, but very powerful in this case.

Being able to create a set of graphs, and load libraries to populate those graphs with data, all from one config file, is awesome[sic].

I am still trying to figure out how to make a floating pop-up style alert box though . . . any one know how to do this?

bidigo · 2008-09-23 20:25:20

Anyone has the ETA for releasing 3.0 into the community repository?

moljac024 · 2008-09-23 20:49:42

It's funny how everyone here says how disgusting the awesome config file has become and they go switching to Xmonad

Issh · 2008-09-23 20:53:58

lol, lua is FAR simpler than haskell, though the default config is HORRIBLY layed out

nielsb · 2008-09-24 07:30:24

moljac024 wrote:

It's funny how everyone here says how disgusting the awesome config file has become and they go switching to Xmonad

Yeah - that made me chuckle too

However, I must say that, IMHO, Awesome's 2.x config file feels cleaner than 3.0, but no doubt that you can do much, much more in 3.0.

Niels

pressh · 2008-09-24 07:39:25

bidigo wrote:

Anyone has the ETA for releasing 3.0 into the community repository?

when it is ready

nah seriously, the binary will be there soonish

[edit] btw you do know it is only released a few days ago? If your computer was running before it sure will do for some more time with or without the package being updated...

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ArchArael · 2008-09-24 07:58:04

I'm trying awesome 3.0 at the moment. Not at work but home because I'm not used to awesome wm.

At work I'm still using openbox because I need to be as productive as possible.

I was wondering if is possible have a windows list for faster switching like in openbox.

I am used to this shortkey:

<keybind key="C-space">
      <action name="ShowMenu">
        <menu>client-list-combined-menu</menu>
      </action>
</keybind>

This provide me a list of all windows in all desktops so I can jump from window to window easily.

It's an openbox feature I use intensively. So, I was wondering if someone knows if is possible and how to obtain the same in awesome 3.0...perhaps without writing the entire feature in lua.

By the way, in my opinion it's not such a big deal the new configuration file. And this makes awesome smaller and more stable. Not my words but developer's.

I also noticed that gvim window doesn't use the whole space in awesome...I can see peaces of my background image on bottom and on the left/right side of gvim.

Does someone know why?

Last edited by ArchArael (2008-10-28 16:10:17)

patroclo7 · 2008-09-24 09:21:23

According to the comments in the AUR, awesome 3.0 will be packaged once the TU has decided what to do with the cairo-xcb dependency: I guess that it would be possible to just compile the default cairo in extra with xcb support (but then it would have a new dep in libxcb), or to bring cairo-xcb in community as an alternative to standard cairo.

I really like lua and find the config file very easy to understand. However I have never used awesome 2, I actually come directly from dwm, and I appreciate the systray and the greater - almost unlimited - configurability, departing from a default desktop experience which is very similar to the dwm one (which I have enjoyed for two years a lot).

iphitus · 2008-09-24 10:38:54

compiling cairo with xcb would probably be the better solution, as xcb is meant to be the all awesome new replacement for libx11

pressh · 2008-09-24 10:59:56

iphitus wrote:

compiling cairo with xcb would probably be the better solution, as xcb is meant to be the all awesome new replacement for libx11

yes I talked with Jan about it and it will be compiled with xcb support in future releases.

WhiteMagic · 2008-09-24 14:39:54

ArchArael I suppose that you can see parts of the background because awesome honors the size hints of programs.
In my config it this option is set in the hook_manage(c) function. So if you'd like to get rid of this you would need to replace "honorsozehints = true" with "honorsizehints = false" whereever they occur.

ArchArael · 2008-09-24 18:35:27

WhiteMagic wrote:

ArchArael I suppose that you can see parts of the background because awesome honors the size hints of programs.
In my config it this option is set in the hook_manage(c) function. So if you'd like to get rid of this you would need to replace "honorsozehints = true" with "honorsizehints = false" whereever they occur.

Thank you very much...that worked perfectly.

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