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jon.mithe

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Registered: 2011-11-08

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[SOLVED]Awesome over 3 monitors

Hi,

I have a linux setup at home which I've changed to Arch and seem to be getting along with it very well.  I'm thinking about changing my work setup as well as recent shifts with ubuntu/gnome and bloat has done my nut in.  Not sure this is the best place to post, but am running into a few brick walls with it.

At work, I have three 2048x1152 monitors and I'm trying to work out whether awesome is the right way to go.  I've only used gnome before and like the idea of a more constrained WM/DE as I have a specific use case. My main problem is I do not know enough about awesome to really test / play with it and I'd like to feel out the possibility from other users experiences that this may be a good way for me to go.

On my single monitor setup awesome works great.  Documentation seems to suggest 3 monitors should be fine so thats not a problem.  I'm concerned it seems to make the most out of small space and with all that space, whether it will be pointless or too exacting?

I have a fairly standard setup, email maximised on one screen, development window (eclipse) open on the other and my applications that run from the IDE on the third so I can debug + code at the same time.  Thrown in are some web windows for documentation and some consoles for random things.

Worst comes to worst E17 looks like it will definitly do the trick for now.  I may be tempted to change to two 2500 odd x something odd monitors space + probably something like awesome would become more useful.

Thanks for any insights,
Jon.

Last edited by jon.mithe (2011-11-17 14:18:48)

examon

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Registered: 2011-05-07

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Re: [SOLVED]Awesome over 3 monitors

awesome works very well with multiscreen... I have 2x22" screens, it works very good. I've seen awesome with 6 screens.. so 3 would be just fine

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will.price94

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Registered: 2011-11-09

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Re: [SOLVED]Awesome over 3 monitors

I'm using xmonad with 2 23" monitors, it works a treat, far better than a floating window manager for me. I have urxvt with screen open on one screen, and the other looking at documentation. 3 would be even better...

jon.mithe

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Registered: 2011-11-08

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Re: [SOLVED]Awesome over 3 monitors

Thanks for the help.  It did work although I had a little weirdness with maximised windows and I could not for the life of me figure out how to move windows between monitors.  Switch back to gnome for the moment, although I will continue to play

Thanks, jon

ngoonee

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Re: [SOLVED]Awesome over 3 monitors

Thanks for the help.  It did work although I had a little weirdness with maximised windows and I could not for the life of me figure out how to move windows between monitors.  Switch back to gnome for the moment, although I will continue to play

Thanks, jon

You'd probably need different commands in your rc.lua. By default the function called is awful.screen.focus(1) and awful.screen.focus(2), to which you may need to add a (3) (not sure if there have incrementing screens, though they SHOULD).

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examon

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Registered: 2011-05-07

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Re: [SOLVED]Awesome over 3 monitors

Thanks for the help.  It did work although I had a little weirdness with maximised windows and I could not for the life of me figure out how to move windows between monitors.  Switch back to gnome for the moment, although I will continue to play

Thanks, jon

you can maximize windows with mod+f (default) or just set up your rc.lua
you can move windows from one screen to other with mod+o (default) < I love it!

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