Awesome
Awesome is a highly configurable, tiling window manager
initially based on dwm code. It is extremely fast, small, dynamic and
'awesome'.
It manages windows in different layouts, like floating or
tiled. 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.
awesome contains a small status bar which displays all
available tags, the layout, the title of the focused window, and a
status text. A floating window is indicated with an empty circle and a
maximized floating window is indicated with a circle square before the
windows title.
awesome provides a good environment for multi-screen
(Xinerama) support.
This window manager is primarly targeted at power users,
developers and any
people dealing with every day computing tasks and who want to have
fine-grained control over the graphical environment.
Features include:
- Very stable, fast, small and simple
- Multiple and per screen status bars, including a variety of
widgets (text and icon boxes, graphs, progress bars etc)
- Uses the asynchronous XCB
library instead of the old synchronous
Xlib
- No mouse needed: everything can be performed with keyboard
- Real multihead support (XRandR, Xinerama or Zaphod mode)
- Implements many Freedesktop standards including
EWMH,
XDG Base Directory,
XEmbed,
System Tray
- Real transparency support (using Composite extension and
xcompmgr)
- Does not distinguish between layers: there is no floating
or tiled layer
- Layout handling: automatically manage your windows
placement according to
the chosen policy for each tag;
- Use tags instead of workspaces: allow to place clients on
several tags, and
display several tags at the same time;
- Lua extensions to add features: dynamic tagging,
widget feeding,
tabs
- D-Bus support
- Customized entirely through editing a configuration file
- Each function for manipulating the environment is bindable
to keys/ mouse buttons and executable remotely via a socket
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