![]() ![]() I still like to have the windows titles still visible. ![]() To save screen real state, I prefer not to have window titles right on top of each window. Awesome's Status bar meets my needs though. I3-status has a nice feel, really like the design of piping anything. I find i3's window containers like to equally scale all windows in a little limiting. Window re-sizing is more intuitive in Awesome, for me anyway. Mouse window movement is easier for me too, I can Mod+Right Click drag windows to different locations and monitors. Same for moving windows using the keyboard. In Awesome, I love just cycling thought all windows in a clockwise fashion using 'j' and 'k', vs. One big thing I missed with i3 was the window navigation. i3 requires more keystrokes to get the layout I want when opening more then 2 windows. ![]() Having explicit tiling sounds good, but I rarely have any more need then one fully vertical window with a 2nd column of secondary windows. I find I only use the 'tile' and 'floating' layout in Awesome. I can see the appeal, configuration is much better/easier. (That is, the ability to have windows from several different tabs/workspaces showing at the same time)įor those who have used Tiling window managers longer than I have, what do you think of them? How would you compare i3 to awesome, awesome to i3, etc.? That being said, it seems to be missing some of the functionality I really loved with Awesome. On the other hand, I've heard that i3 is a little easier to configure, which is good. (I don't know lua, and I have no major problem with learning something new, but in the half a month that I used awesome, I never really got it setup the way I wanted it.) The downside is, I didn't like Awesome's configuration methods at all. On one hand, I really liked Awesome's behavior, specifically the ability to control which tabs are shown, and the ability to have several tabs/workspaces shown on the same screen at once. I've read about the different tiling window managers on the wiki, I've tried Awesome before, and I've seen several videos of i3 in use. So, I'm interested in trying out a tiling window manager for my laptop. ![]()
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