Awesome

The default rc.lua from Awesome 4.0 turns title bars on. Here I show how you can turn them off, and also how I enable them only for floating clients.

The default rc.lua from the Awesome window manager uses a lot of globalkeys = awful.util.table.join(...) code.

I disliked this because …

• in Lua, the last field of a table cannot have a comma. So often when I moved an entry around, I ended up with a pointless syntax error because of a missing or trailing comma
• adding elements by joining seems somewhat complex
• adding logic, e.g. only adding a keybinding under specific circumstances is suddenly more difficult

So let’s change this …

In this post I show a nice method to define tags and associated layouts, where the tag names change dynamically when the layout changes.

This post shows how you can create a global titlebar. I personally removed the tasklist and replaced this with the titlebar. The tasklist wasn’t good looking anyway and so far I don’t miss the tasklist.