Windows can be assigned to several tags, and multiple tags can be selected at the same time.

Like dwm and wmii, awesome uses tags instead of workspaces.

Configured via a Lua configuration file.

In doing so, the author has created what he calls a framework window manager for users to expand and adapt to their own needs. Although highly extensible, the default setup of the window manager is deliberately simplified. Īwesome has emerged as a dwm fork featuring customization through external configuration files (see Configuration and customization below). It's extremely fast, small, dynamic and heavily extensible using the Lua programming language. To achieve this goal, awesome has been designed as a framework window manager. Some are heavily extensible and configurable.Īwesome tries to complete these tools with what we miss: an extensible, highly configurable window manager. Power users and programmers have a big range of choice between several tools for these day-to-day tasks. Aim Ī window manager is probably one of the most used software in your day-to-day tasks, with your Web browser, mail reader and text editor.

awesome was officially announced on the dwm mailing list on September 20, 2007. jdwm was renamed to awesome, named after the same phrase used by the How I Met Your Mother character Barney Stinson. The first git repository for what was to become awesome was set up in September 2007. The fork was initially nicknamed jdwm, where 'jd' denoted the principal programmer's initials and dwm denoted the software project it was forked from. It makes it possible for the user to manage windows with the use of keyboard. It aims to be extremely small and fast, yet extensively customizable.

Lua is also used for configuring and extending the window manager. AwesomeWM is a dynamic window manager for the X Window System developed in the C and Lua programming languages.

Awesome tiling