Wednesday November 21, 2007. 10:00 PM
FreshMeat
awesome is a window manager for X. It manages
windows in several layout modes, such as tiled or
floating. Each layout can be applied dynamically.
Windows can be grouped by tags, and each window
can be tagged with one or multiple tags, and each
tag can have its own layout.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release uses a new configuration file format. It fixes bugs in resize_hint, correctly resets default bar position on toggle, fixes incorrect column computation in multi-column tiled layout, fixes several bugs with Mplayer in Xinerama mode, and has better computation for moving windows. It adds an option to center the pointer on the focused client. nmaster/ncol/mwfact and layout can be specified by tags at config and run time. Cairo is used to render the status bar. Each physical screen can now be configured independently for colors, status bar, font, etc.