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Comment by whackedspinach | Hacker News Reader

I use Awesome WM. It was my first foray into the tiling WM world, and I am currently loving it. I have two monitors. I usually have whatever main task I'm working with on my main widescreen, and then a bunch of terminals with various programs (ncmpcpp, irssi, etc) on my old 17 inch monitor.

Awesome is great because of its use of the keyboard and tag system. Also, it is named after one of Barney Stinson's catchphrases.

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Awesome is great partly because it's small, nimble and fast. It's one of those rare pieces of software that manages to feel infinitely useful while combating bloat at the same time.

The problem I have with awesome is that it likes to make you write new configs every other release. That's why I'm still stuck with a fairly old version.

Now that they kicked xcb out of cairo (which awesome needs) which resulted in awesome getting kicked out of the arch linux community repository I think I'll just switch to i3 like all of my buddies.

I didn't even realize awesome wasn't in the Arch Linux repositories any more. I installed it from there a month ago.

Another vote for Awesome WM. Like you, it was my first (and, so far, only) foray into tiling WMs, and I'm using it on dual 21" monitors.

I usually have Chrome on my right screen, several tabs worth of terminals on my left screen, and Komodo Edit will float back and forth between the two, depending on what I'm doing.

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