Getting Started With Awesome Window Manager

installed a tiling window maanager - sets window mode to floating. :D

I like how you say "read the documentation", with a mug in the background saying "RTFM"

I'm a Linux newbie but thanks to you and your patreons, I'm feeling much more comfortable digging deeper into this cool new dimension. Keep up the great work Derek.

I consider AwesomeWM to be a hybrid.. meaning if you want only floating windows with bars and open/close buttons, then you can have that. You can also remove window bars and buttons and have it only act as a tiling wm. I think that AwesomeWM is basically best of both worlds, you can float and/or you can tile. I mean moreso than most other tiling window managers.

This is one of the only tutorials i watched to the end. And thats pretty rare for me. Really good job in explaining this, exactly what i needed. I am new to linux and installed manjaro today and am already trying to operate awesome only using hotkeys. Thanks for the great tutorial.

dt: my password is super secure the password: "dt"

I was about to install i3 again on my crappy laptop for performance (and then delete it a few days after because of frustration of how it handles notifications and such), but you convinced me this feels more awesome. I'm giving it a big try.

YES. I've been seeing some amazing layouts with Awesome, and have been tempted to switch over. Seeing this has helped.

Thank you good sir. My friend has been suggesting i use Awesome for awhile. I normally prefer cinnamon but after getting this running on arch i can safely say it feels alien but interesting and useful. I intend to keep using awesome. Main thing i like about awesome so far is how easy it is to switch workspaces. It makes placing windows in full screen mode extremely doable

Just wachted the first 10min, but i wanted to say.. Man I just love the way you teach, especially that you're not just explaining once what a specific action does and then just saying 5 times do what we did there or press xy and type in xyz like many other's doing tutorials.. you're not just explaining, you're teaching us how to and what it does what while telling multiple times what it does if a specific step repeats, Which makes it much easier to learn and it also seems logical (example: Mention to remember -> Super +R opens the run promt)

If I remember correctly the built in run prompt has tab completion.

Awesome, thanks! (no pun intended) I'm a new user of dwm (only a couple of weeks since I installed it), and I love it. I heard about it from Luke Smith about a year ago. What really made me want to install was its official description, which contains the following: "Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's pointless to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and elitist. No novices asking stupid questions." Sign me up :D

I'm gonna learn Lua to make some Neovim plugins and I also want to use Awsome. I think this video was made at the wright time for me!!!!

But if your gonna run awesome having someone to hold your hand is helpful. So good job Derek.

I just started playing around with tiling managers and i gotta say.. i like the heck out of it, particularly awesome just because it's so versatile. It's funny I actually installed it, found the floating mode and was like "Neat... ok lets just turn that off." lol

Had such content existed when I was starting out, it would've saved me days worth of frustration. This guy is doing public service really. Pay attention kids 😂

Thank you, Derek. One of the common complaints against Nautilus is that it no longer is tied to the "desktop" paradigm to display folders etc.

awesome is truly a blessing for me compared to i3 and DWM, which I had no clue where to even start. This video really helped me to get started.

So glad I found your channel... rusty and needing to upgrade my skills,,, your the perfect fit, thanks

By hitting super+s, I noticed that maybe the dmenu task in this video was unnecessary, because super-p already offers something that functions like dmenu. However, covering how to bind dmenu with a key was helpful for the purposes of demonstration. In videos like these, I wish you'd always cover how to adjust the size of what gets displayed on the screen. The fonts are so small by default! The first thing I want to know is how to make things bigger. I'll figure that out, though.