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11 essential commands for a tiling window manager
I'm a visual person. A nice chart or graph somehow fits my brain better than lots of text. Here's an image I wish I had when I first installed awesome. I wish I had it a few weeks back when asked about tiling window managers at UTOSC. Now I'm thinking about giving the latest version of xmonad a try (maybe I'll make an xmonad version). (And if I had more time, I'd hack on the Python tiling wm, qtile).
This covers the default configuration for awesome. And really that's about all you need to know. Once you know how to start a terminal, and kill clients, the other basic commands are for navigation and changing layout/float/maximize.
So if you've been thinking about trying tiling wm's, give the recent awesome 3.4 a try. Your hands and wrists might thank you.
FYI, the link to qtile is wrong, it links to qitle.org
I love awesome (have it installed on an ubuntu 9.04 vm), which suits me
just fine (and I've converted the whole development team as well :-)
I gave awesomewm a try and it was just too much awesomeness for a WM, this
was probably cause it was my first time using a tiling wm.
After failing configuring awsome I tried Ion3 and it fits me perfect, most
of the time I just want to use my laptop only to use the WM