 So with my recent computer problems and the fact that I've now had to nuke and pave and Reinstall everything. I've decided to hop window managers and I've been on I3 window manager basically for the last two years It's been quite a long trek when it comes to me actually using, you know, I3 window manager It's been fantastic. Now that doesn't mean I haven't used other ones. I've spent a month in sway I spent a month in Q tile. I've used DWM some during some portions of the last two and a half years or so, you know But I always use I3 go away from it come back. I3 is my home It's the configuration files that I've spent the most time, you know, ricing and configuring and all that stuff So I3 is kind of where it's at for me, but It's time for something new. It doesn't mean I don't like I3 anymore I still love it and I'll still probably go back to it, but I need something new So I put out a poll on Masedon if you want to follow me on Masedon links in the video description hashtag YouTuber and that poll basically asked where I should go next and I give a few options and the Option that one was awesome window manager Now I've used awesome before but not long term basically all I've ever used it for is ricing And I've only ever done this on live streams for you know Maybe like an hour and a half and then I immediately Skedaddled back into whatever window manager. I was using full-time. I've never actually installed awesome on hardware and Intended to use it for any amount of time. It's just not something that I've ever really considered doing simply because How should I put this slightly? I don't like Lua. I'm not a big fan of Lua There's a reason why my meal vim configuration file is still 100% vim script, you know Like I've not transitioned that thing to Lua at all And I don't know that I ever intend to do so Lua and I just do not get along now when it comes to Programming languages that I just like Lua is in the firm number two spot behind Haskell So it does have that going for it. It's not the worst language for me ever now every time I say I hate Haskell So there's someone out there. Well Matt Haskell is fantastic. I'm sure it is it just I'm too stupid for it Just I'll just be completely blunt about it. I'm not smart enough to do Haskell There's too many weird symbols there that I don't understand It's like trying to code and cling on but that's beside the point Lua is still kind of like that But it reminds me a little bit of Python so I can at least kind of understand You know it has commas and stuff where in in certain places and you know It's doesn't have the weird symbols the Haskell's got going on for it So I can understand it at least and I can learn it at least, you know learn enough to configure a window manager in at least So I have switched to awesome window manager and this is where I am right now And I know it doesn't look like much I'm still getting there and I have some just very early very initial thoughts on awesome And the first one is that I don't care for the bar I've still I'm that thing is gonna take a lot of work in order to get that thing to look Anywhere decent the default bar that thing is fugly It's not a good-looking bar. It has some cool functions and cool features, but I don't really care for that particular Default layout, so I'm gonna just change that the second thing in my second initial thought and After doing some research and having Josh do some research for me. It is my disappointment that Scratch pads aren't something that's built in so I'm not going to be able to just use it You know a standard key binding for scratch pad I'm gonna have to go download something called bling or something like that So it looks like this and apparently that has scratch pad functionalities. I haven't gotten too much into it But apparently it works fine and I will try that but I was Disappointed that I that scratch pads wasn't a default feature that would that's number two The third thing that I noticed is that the configuration file is really freaking long now If you've watched my channel for any amount of time, you know that I like Very short configuration files. My i3 configuration file is approximately 20 lines long now, obviously if you added up all the files that I sourced and stuff like that inside of the i3 Configuration file, it's longer, but I like a very organized configuration file so by default the fact that this one here is Almost 600 lines long it messed with my brain just a little bit and obviously Approximately half of these are comments so those could go away And I'm assuming that if I wanted to there's a way to source and include stuff from this file that I could do I just don't know that yet. I'll have to figure that out But just out of the box. That's something that I noticed and something that I know Eventually is going to be something that I'm gonna have to deal with because my brain just works in really freaking stupid ways So that's that's the third thing the fourth one is That the tags remind me a lot of DWM which makes sense because this is basically I believe this is a fork of DWM That was really written in Lua. Maybe it's the other way around. I don't really know I know has something it has some relationship with DWM. So the tags being similar to DWM makes sense and Similar to DWM these are going to drive me nuts because at least for my initial look and feel I don't think that there's a way for me to control the tags on both monitors with separate key bindings So but basically in i3 I have super one through zero will change the workspaces on my first monitor And I have all one through zero to control the the workspaces on my second monitor So that's the way I like to work and I would love to find out if that's a Possibility and awesome so far. I haven't really found that now I haven't done too much looking into it. So maybe it's possible it exists I just haven't got there yet But I'm really hoping that that is something that I can deal with because I would love to be able to use my keyboard to move between specific workspaces on both monitors and as of right now the It's really weird the default key bindings for this. So if I wanted to move my focus from monitor one to monitor two It's super control. I believe J&K. I think it's J&K. Maybe it's H&L It's one of those two and it's a little weird if it's J&K It's even more weird because that's that's up and down H&L should be side to side I don't know. It's still like I said, I'm just I'm just obviously just learning But still that's way more key bindings than I really want just to change focus So I'm gonna change that for sure. Another thing is if I wanted to move a window from one Screen to another screen. It's super. Oh and that just switches the client from one screen to another screen But that screen has to be active. So if I wanted to move say this window here that you're seeing over to the other monitor It would move this client to the other monitor So whatever workspace or in this case tag is in focus on the other monitor So I couldn't send and just for example right now I have tag six active on my secondary monitor if I moved this client that you're seeing on screen to tag six On the other monitor. That's the only option I have I couldn't move it from where it's at right now To tag five on the other monitor because tag five is not in focus if that made any sense at all It doesn't mean that that's not possible. It's just out of the box. It doesn't seem possible So that's again something that I'm going to have to Investigate so the movement of windows isn't it doesn't feel as flexible as other window managers It's probably not true Like there's probably plenty of ways to do this and I just haven't got there yet So don't get in the comments saying Matt. You're an idiot. You can do all this stuff. You're talking about I'm sure you probably can I'm just not there yet. So I've only spent a couple hours in this so far So these are very very early early first impressions, and I'm not being fair fair to Awesome at all and that's where I want to end this video I want to talk about the perception that I have of awesome window manager and also my Disinterest in it. So I put this on the pole. It's my own damn fault and it won and I Promised myself that whichever Window manager won that pole. I would choose and use and I'm regretting my life choices. So I went into this Experiment with a very very bad attitude like it was really bad and it hasn't improved The things that I'm talking about and the things that I've talked about in this video I'm sure are possible with some research and stuff like that And I'm going to do that research and try to make awesome work for me But because I had that initial disinterest in it and I've had Bad experiences with Lua in the past. I just Everything's rose colored. I've been way Usually when I started in the window manager project I'm gung-ho like I really I'm really looking forward to getting it working to the point where you know It works really well for me in terms of key bindings and customization and rising all this I'm really really excited about it when I jumped into to cutile. I was like, yeah New window manager. It's gonna be awesome when it comes to awesome. I didn't have that. I Didn't feel that way. I didn't feel gung-ho about it I felt like it was a chore and It's not a chore. It's just that's my attitude towards it and it's not really good So I need to most of the stuff that I've talked about in this thing and the negative kind of tone that I've had in this Whole video is a mental block that I have Regarding awesome window manager. I don't know what it is and hopefully I can discover that and kind of Seriously move past it because I'm sure awesome is a fantastic window manager I'm sure that all the things that I say are problem are missing are probably there and fairly easy to do I just need to you know do it and stop Complaining about it because obviously I have some kind of Vendetta against the awesome window manager and I don't even understand it It's one of those mental things that you just you have a I have some kind of Feeling about awesome window manager or the perception of awesome window managers skewed or something in my brain that I can't really understand And that's coloring Everything else so it's going to be an interesting month because I'm gonna stick with this damn thing for See it there. I went again. Yeah, it's like even called it a damn thing I'm gonna stick with it for a month at least and I'm gonna use it and I'm gonna try to you know I'm gonna customize it. I'm gonna make sure that all the key bunnings are where I need it to be I'm gonna rice the damn thing to to here and gone, you know, I'm gonna I'm going to Make this thing mine as much as possible and hopefully by the end of the month I will come out saying well, you know what awesome is really great, you know and I should have given up Better more fair chance earlier in my Linux career, and I'm sad that I didn't hopefully that's where I can come out on this And that's probably where I will come out because everyone that I've talked to like Everyone has said that awesome is really good. Maybe it wasn't for them But very few people have said, you know Matt awesome is terrible. It's a very bad window manager You shouldn't try I don't think I've ever heard anybody say that so obviously my problem with this thing is completely mental In more ways than one so that is it for this video. I'm switching to awesome win a manager and I'm not happy about it. I Should be happy about it. 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