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ogronom

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From: Toronto, Canada

Registered: 2008-05-06

Posts: 123

tiling wm: alternative to awesome.

Hi

Awesome is awesome.Tiling combine (all-in-one) with lot's of features and "side effects" like tray, run-string, tags etc. Unfortunatelly awesome has one extra feature, it doesn't like java programs, and I have problems with two proprietary programs (usuall workaround doesn't work).

Maybe you can suggest an alternative?

Crows

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From: Wales

Registered: 2008-09-05

Posts: 92

Re: tiling wm: alternative to awesome.

Are you talking about the grey square bug? I believe that effects most non-standard WMs. Have you tried this fix?:

export AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit

before running the app. Or you could try calling it like this:

AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit <command for app>

Last edited by Crows (2009-08-13 14:59:00)

Mr.Elendig

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Registered: 2004-11-07

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Re: tiling wm: alternative to awesome.

You can also lie about your WM. That solves many of the issues with java.

# pacman -S wmname
$ wmname LG3D

Last edited by Mr.Elendig (2009-08-13 15:00:13)

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ogronom

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From: Toronto, Canada

Registered: 2008-05-06

Posts: 123

Re: tiling wm: alternative to awesome.

Are you talking about the grey square bug?...

Not only. Also I have a bug with keyboard for one program (AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit works nice here). And grey-square bug for another one. MToolkit solution is not working (the structure of  startup scripts when they setup the environment of proprietary program is quite complicated and I have no will to look into them ). I think it's more simple to change WM if there is a similar alternative.

You can also lie about your WM. That solves many of the issues with java.

How does it possibly help?

P.S. tried and it did nothing.

Last edited by ogronom (2009-08-13 15:38:02)