i3-like tiling possible in Awesome?

SquarePony · 2013-03-29 16:06:53

I really like the configurability of Awesome, but I find its tiling modes not as good as i3's mechanism of allowing every window to be split horizontally or vertically. Is it possible to add a tiling mode in Awesome to mimic i3's tiling system?

helloworld1 · 2013-03-29 17:47:31

Why not using I3?

SquarePony · 2013-03-29 18:44:00

because of Awesome's widget system and stacking mode.

ngoonee · 2013-03-31 23:47:37

Please explain I3's system a bit more, I don't see any reason why awesome can't have split desktops.

SquarePony · 2013-03-31 23:54:38

Well, in i3 you can select any window, and split it horisontally or vertically to create new windows.
In Awesome you can only create windows in a few pre-set ways called 'window modes'.

Am I explainig it adequately?

ball · 2013-04-01 09:07:46

I always thought that these different ways / possibilities of creating and arranging new clients is the main difference between i3 and it's competing wm's. The i3 website mentions as a major design goal:

Use a tree as data structure. This allows for more flexible layouts than the column-based approach used by other window managers.

I suspect that it is not easy to overcome a major design principle of awesome by a lot of lua hacks. If yout wan't the flexible layouts i3 offers, you should probably use i3 or a fork, if there exists one...

pigpenguin · 2013-04-09 23:54:35

There is this one, how ever it is pretty new and he is still ironing out some issues.

ANOKNUSA · 2013-04-12 01:02:34

I'm always confused when, upon discovering that Awesome is capable of so much, people choose to go through the effort of making it act like something other than Awesome. i3 allows for floating windows, and the function of Awesome's Lua widgets can be replicated in i3 using snippets of bash/zsh/lisp/C/conky/whatever piped into i3bar/dzen/whatever. The only true, fundamental difference between Awesome an i3 is the way each tiles windows, and that difference is deliberate.

dag · 2013-04-12 01:59:17

i love the ease of window manipalation in i3 it is incomparable to most.

anonymous_user · 2013-04-12 04:45:53

ANOKNUSA wrote:

The only true, fundamental difference between Awesome an i3 is the way each tiles windows, and that difference is deliberate.

What about their status bars or the language/syntax of their config files? Do those count for anything?

phairland · 2013-09-01 12:07:47

I being using awesome wm for more than a year. Today I switched to i3 and I am not looking back.

i3 is awesome...!!!!!!

It is so much easy to manipulate the windows with all the different types of layouts. I am finding i3 more dynamic in that respect, being able to have different layouts on the same workspace unlike awesome which has only one layout per workspace, yes you can make floating and fullscreen in awesome but I find i3 management much more intuitive.

@SquarePony I think you should try to think what works best for your needs as I found configuring awesome a bit tedious. I feel that if you really want that mechanism of managing windows you could get widgets working in i3 which are independents from wm.

When I was using awesome I was trying to avoid awesome widgets extensions and installing non-wm dependant ones, that way it was really easy for me to switch between wms. Keep that in mind.

radiohead_101 · 2015-04-30 13:20:09

i3 is cute comparing to awesome

adcdam · 2015-05-07 05:31:59

and also i3 consume less ram than awesome, i tried both but i liked more i3.

bleach · 2015-05-07 07:14:12

I always thought of awesome as kind of a hybrid openboxish/tilling wm

jasonwryan · 2015-05-07 07:35:11

Please don't necrobump: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … bumping.22

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