I am trying AwesomeWM on Arch.
So far I like it. It is fast and I like how it handles tiling.
That said, this is my first time going pure window manager and I’m running into some puzzles. So I have some questions for anyone out there who uses or has used Awesome.
- Do you run it alone or on top of a DE? Which DE? If no DE, then do you prefer GTK or QT applications?
I am using Brave browser which has already pulled GTK, so I feel like I want to avoid QT for simplicity, but I’m open to suggestions.
- What File Manager do you use?
I installed Nautilus per GTK bias, but I see that I have 2 sets of window controls (minimize/maximize/close). I have also managed to accidentally maximize one window over another and now it is not respecting the AwesomeWM tiling…
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What screenshot utility do you use?
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What lockscreen do you use?
Haven’t really thought about these yet, but I will need them.
- Assuming no DE, do you use any GUI system configuration or just edit conf files?
I can manually edit conf files, but for some things like audio device switching and monitor arrangement, a gui is ideal.
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I am seeing some screen tearing during browser scroll. GPU is a Radeon 5100wx, so no nvidia driver nonsense and this wasn’t an issue on previous Linux installs on this system. Do I need to do something to make this go away?
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Is there a good beginners guide to configuring Awesome? I know they have docs, but I didn’t see anything resembling a guide. Looking for something like “first 10 things to configure in awesomewm”. Right away, I need to increase the size of the menu bar and would like to have gaps…
Anyway, thanks to anyone who can share some insight! I am excited to get my hands dirty.