awesome
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| Last Update: | 2008-02-16 11:01:31 |
| Version: | 2.1 / 2.2 RC1 |
| License/Program Type: | GPL (GNU General Public License) |
| Publisher: | Julien Danjou |
| Price: | $0.00 |
Description:
awesome is a tiling window manager initialy based on a dwm
code rewriting. awesome is extremely fast, small, dynamic and
awesome.
Windows can be managed in several layouts: tiled and floating.
Each layout can be applied on the fly, optimizing the environment
for the application in use and the task performed.
Managing windows in tiled mode assures that no space will be
waste on your screen. No gaps, no overlap.
Tiled layout
With tiled layout, windows are managed in a master and a
stacking area. The master area contains the windows which currently
need most attention, whereas the stacking area contains all other
windows. The master area can be splited in several rows and column,
as you want.
Floating layout
In floating layout, windows can be resized and moved freely,
just like a usual window manager. Dialog windows are always managed
floating, regardless of the layout selected.
Tags
Windows are grouped by tags. Each window can be tagged with one
or multiple tags. Selecting certain tags displays all windows with
those tags. Each tag can have its own layout.
Tags can be compared to virtual desktops, but it's more
powerful: you can quickly merge and show several tags at the same
time, and go back to only one tag after.
Status bar
awesome contains a small status bar which displays all
available tags, the layout, the title of the focused window, and
text read from standard input. The selected tags are highlighted
with a different color, while the tags of the focused window are
highlighted with a small point. awesome draws a small border around
windows to indicate their focus state.
Every aspect of awesome is configurable via a configuration
file: awesomerc.
Here are some key features of
"awesome":
· Very stable.
· No mouse needed.
· Multihead support (Xinerama or Zaphod mode).
· Some real transparency support (using Composite
extension and xcompmgr for now).
· Some XRandR support.
· No Lua integration, no 9P support, no editable
tagbars, no remote control, and comes without any additional
tools.
· Only a single binary.
· No limit on its source size, awesome have features we
want.
· Doesn't distinguish between layers: there is no
floating or tiled layer. Whether or not the clients of currently
selected tag(s) are in tiled layout, you can rearrange them on the
fly. Popup and fixed-size windows are always floating, however.
· Customized through editing a configuration file, which
makes it extremely easy to configure. You don't have to learn
Lua/sh/ruby or some weird configuration file format (like X
resource files), or recompile source code each time you do
something:, just edit the configuration file, for god's sake.
· Reads from the standard input to print arbitrary
status text (like the date, load, battery charge).
What's New in 2.2 RC1 Development Release:
· This release adds tiletop and tilebottom layouts, new
widgets, a new awesome-message module, and a fix for various
bugs.
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