AwesomeWM Made My Workflow Even More Awesome

[@copper4eva]

The more I look at this wallpaper, the more amazing it is.

[@amosnimos]

Where can i find it?

[@mareklorincz531]

@@amosnimos have you found it after 2 years?

[@amosnimos]

@@mareklorincz531 yes I did but don't seem to be able to share it with you, youtube don't like url from external site

[@amosnimos]

@@mareklorincz531 KZbin keep *** my comment sorry seems I am shadow b*nned

[@jaxxarmstrong]

AwsomeWM is also one of the best for beginners getting into the tiling WMs as it defaults to floating windows without any fuzz. It's also great for those who enjoy floating window management, but wants the more customized feel. It's clearly a underestimated solution for many, if you ask me. Keep up the good work!

[@wp6007]

Yeah I have no idea why new ppl use i3, I can't fathom using manual tiling & being productive, automatic is simply better

[@kenba8176]

Was watching the failed arch install video yesterday. It is amazing how far you have come!

[@BrodieRobertson]

Oh god that was such a bad video

[@JohnDoe-sz5jh]

Dude that background is hilariuos!

[@jadesprite]

I would LOVE a video on window spawning and window rules. I've started to get into that but to do all the experimentation myself while also trying to keep my system usable is slow.

[@n4p3r0]

omg please give me that wallpaper right now LOL

[@RonnieNissan]

Awesome is awesome, especially that I am learning lua now (for neovim and stuff)

[@mrsansiverius2083]

OK but by using local spiraling you can utilize the full power of the GNU/Steel Ball

[@thechadbuddha]

dat wallpaper

[@censoredterminalautism4073]

Awesome is good. Especially using LuaJIT, because then it's fast (I remember having some performance issues without it). Starting X does take a few seconds, though, and I don't like that part. Still, very good window manager. One of the best.

[@BrodieRobertson]

Why do you care about start up time, just never turn your computer off

[@censoredterminalautism4073]

@@BrodieRobertson Some people do that, but I'm paranoid about the weather. I had a computer that I really liked from the early 2010s to 2017 (it had a Phenom II X6, I remember that), and it was fried by lighting because I wasn't around to unplug it. It doesn't help that this place has no ground. It really sucks because it was a fantastic computer (the most high-end that I ever had, actually) and I would probably still be using it now if nothing else happened to it (it used a lot of power though, and nowadays I prefer things that don't). It was from before the PSP too, so less spyware, and it was fast as hell. Later on I want to get a good uninterruptible power supply with a fuse, but now is really not the time to be buying things. Especially when my main PC now is a low-end laptop from half a decade ago, and my main monitor is an LCD monitor from 15 years ago that has a hole in it.

[@maxarendorff6521]

Performance is great for me, even on my 6 year old thinkpad.

[@censoredterminalautism4073]

@@maxarendorff6521 Not sure why. I had it once before, though I'm not sure which computer it was even on, thinking about it now, and then I switched to JIT and it was fine. I actually have a decent number of computers, so it could have been one of the others. This just happens to be the most powerful one. I heard people talk about the same thing happening to them before too. It wasn't necessarily a normal thing, though, because I tested Qtile here before too and that's Python, the slowest language ever made, and it was fast anyway. It's hard to remember all the details of everything I have done because I did so many things in the last three years.

[@wp6007]

He said that as a joke

[@fritjoflarsson9817]

It is configurable with Lua. I love it.

[@mrfluffy9273]

Awesome is a fantastic WM used it for a long time then I dipped my toes in to Xmonad and now im completely submerged in to it. Its libraries are fantastic its configuration is confusing as hell and its by far the most customisable WM i have seen it. Everything linux was ment to be.

[@xllvr]

Why is the configuration being confusing as hell a good thing

[@mrfluffy9273]

@@xllvr coz its existing and fun to learn 😂

[@maxarendorff6521]

Xmonad doesn't have window decorations, titlebars and a right-click menu, right? The cool thing about awesome is that it can act like DWM, but also like Openbox, depending on how you configure it. I haven't seen another WM that can do that. I haven't tried Xmonad but to me it seems to be like DWM or Qtile, but configured in Haskell.

[@mrfluffy9273]

@@maxarendorff6521 all the things you said now can be added. Xmonad is a blank canvas and it's super customisable.xmonad is a wm and nothing else so right click menu can be used with a separate program . Qtile is also good but I find it a little weird with how it works. But also I said that Awesome is fantastic there is nothing wrong with it it is still my second favourite WM.

[@billeterk]

I haven’t moved to tiling yet apart from the snapping the almost all GUI environments do these days. AWM is appealing though. And hhtwm in macOS. Now that neovim has so much functionality accessible through Lua too, I guess it’s time to have another look at it

[@BrodieRobertson]

Snapping is a nice middle ground but I prefer a more keyboard driven workflow

[@billeterk]

@@BrodieRobertson yeah, usually snap with hyper + vim keys

[@maxarendorff6521]

Awesome is really user-friendly out of the box so it's a good way to try out using a window manager.

[@wp6007]

If you're using snapping, you're using tiling with extra work for the same product

[@billeterk]

@@wp6007 somewhat. My time is split between Windows (bastardised with Cygwin), Mac (mostly Mac ports) and Linux though so there is an argument for consistency.

[@mtothem1337]

You can always modify the spiral layout to work like BSPWM

[@BrodieRobertson]

I could but I'm liking master stack more anyway

[@艾曦-e4g]

Great video, very helpful to me because I just begin to use this great software. I just want to how to move to a different tag locate on a different screen with one shortcut keystroke. I wonder how can I share the tags between screen monitors so, I can move the specified tag directly. Thanks a lot.

[@AnzanHoshinRoshi]

Thank you, Brodie. INteresting.

[@amietinen]

Coming from i3 to awesome, i found how it managed screens and tags annoying. So I hacked together a way too keep tags shared between all screen, and being able to move tags them and stuff. In general, I found awesome to be shit out of the box but great after a lot of tweaking.

[@CatwaiiYT]

dot files plz

[@amietinen]

Cannot post links apparently... You should find it if you google "reddit Awesome single tagset" 👌

[@Neucher]

Have you tried xmonad ? It's for cool people

[@pedroprobst5230]

I use it and so far it's the best WM I've ever tried. Granted, it takes some effort to configure it initially because it uses Haskell, and people without a CS background barely know about functional programming. But it's not as hard as people make it out to be; I used Haskell like two times before and even with my very shallow knowledge of it I manage to configure xmonad.

[@wp6007]

I'd use xmonad if I get it to not error screen on any computer & is I install if on upon first launch

[@imhemish]

Gnome also offers good workflow with multiple workspaces, there is no need of tiling window managers for me. But its gnu/linux and you have freedom

[@drLobes]

You can't compare a full bloated DE to a light WM. Some people just like to be in full control of their everyday environment.

[@BrodieRobertson]

I don't think he was trying to, just saying what he prefers

[@fawzanfawzi9993]

I was thinking of switching to Awesome from dwm but I found the lua config to be hard to understand. Can you do like a video about the basic config of awesome?

[@BrodieRobertson]

I've got some stuff in the works

[@wp6007]

Same for me. I think dwm is needlessly complicated & requires too much effort to patch. Def a potential time sink, I'd like to switch to awesome, but the config file is utterly massive, dwms is short & easy to figure out.

[@billeterk]

Aweful spawn reminded me yesterday’s 4yo tantrums ;-)

[@nevoyu]

I love the spiral layout, but that's probably because I'm on an ultrawide.

[@nalinredteeth100]

I use the Dwindle as my main layout on my 15" laptop

[@BrodieRobertson]

That makes a lot of sense

[@brunomello7499]

1:57 this is exactly what I've been wanting to do and struggling to do hehe how did you do that?

[@kenk9449]

0:45 lulz Nice edit

[@xllvr]

One of these days I’m gonna have to try Awesome

[@BrodieRobertson]

One day it'll happen

[@xllvr]

@@BrodieRobertson When I'm not scrambling to finish things. Also I'll do it once you release a video to amend your bar

[@BrodieRobertson]

@@xllvr the eternal work in progress

[@LordOfWizardurl]

Please link of that wallpaper

[@vaibhavpandey358]

On his community post m8

[@copper4eva]

@@vaibhavpandey358 Could you be a bit more specific than that? Like, what is his community post?

[@vaibhavpandey358]

Link to Brodie's wallpaper. In one of his newer community post

[@copper4eva]

@@vaibhavpandey358 Oh, I didn't realize there was a community tab on youtube channels. Just found it.

[@sahasananth987]

@@vaibhavpandey358can you give me the link? I am too late

[@LordOfWizardurl]

I want to use Awesome. But I don't know lua

[@BrodieRobertson]

I don't really know it either I just learn it as I go

[@maxarendorff6521]

Me neither but you can modify the default config file to fit your needs. It's not that hard.

[@coffeedude]

Lua it's really intuitive if now the bare minimum of program, you can guess a lot of stuff and it'll probably work. If don't know anything about programming Lua is a nice and easy first language to learn :)

[@copper4eva]

So when are we getting this wallpaper?

[@BrodieRobertson]

Check the community tab

[@copper4eva]

@@BrodieRobertson I didn't realize youtube channels had a community tab. Thanks.

[@darin7553]

I need that wallpaper

[@raiyanahmed9417]

Great video like always : )! I was wondering, though, if you could start talking half a second later so you dont cut off in the beginning (idk it might just be a me only problem).

[@BrodieRobertson]

Cut off in the beginning?

[@raiyanahmed9417]

@@BrodieRobertson yea, like your voice is cutoff due to the video taking like 0.4 seconds to load and sync

[@fuseteam]

next stop: dwm :^3

[@nxtcoder1790]

do you actually use linux for tweaking only? , or do you have any use-case like programming too. Because, i have only seen you making your workflow better, but the question is `making your workflow better to do what ?`

[@maxarendorff6521]

He's a CS student.

[@nxtcoder1790]

@@maxarendorff6521but he doesn't do anything useful on his computer

[@maxarendorff6521]

@@nxtcoder1790 How do you know, lol?

[@nxtcoder1790]

@@maxarendorff6521 I don't know, that's why i asked him, but in turn you came out to be a smartass

[@wp6007]

Why are you so hostile?

[@doooofus]

awesomeWM, more like basedWM, or actually just awesomeWM i suppose

[@0x7f2c]

imagine a wm just named wm

[@RichardBronosky]

2:22 You’re a Bottom Master Node

[@BrodieRobertson]

The edit that happened just after that was a bit off lol

[@RichardBronosky]

@@BrodieRobertson the fact that you can say these things with a straight face makes me think you skipped age 14 all together.

[@spirobel]

is awesome written in rust?

[@wp6007]

Nah, Lua

[@spirobel]

@@wp6007 have you considered rewriting it in rust?

[@coffeedude]

Lua needs to be rewritten in rust

[@spirobel]

@@coffeedude everything needs to be rewritten in rust!!! :-0

[@tomoghnosen]

I Love GNOME change my opinion.

[@hermannpaschulke1583]

Why? Gnome is a nice DE, no need to change your opinion. Greetings a KDE user.

[@mrfluffy9273]

Is this a joke I'm to tiling window manager lover to understand

[@BrodieRobertson]

That's fine

[@aer0449]

Gimmme that wallpaper plz

[@stop8576]

>not using dwm

[@BrodieRobertson]

One day

[@stnby9418]

What exactly is the point of this video? Bspwm has all of this but better. Just use bspwm rules.

[@BrodieRobertson]

Layouts not so much, there are scripts that are sort of hacky I guess

[@maxarendorff6521]

BSPWM doesn't do dynamic tiling like awesome, dwm or xmonad do.

[@wp6007]

You're asking why people use a wm with dynamic tiling instead of "just" adding dynamic tiling to an entirely different window manager that that doesn't have dynamic tiling by default & I don't know why