pages tagged awesomezack's home pagehttp://upsilon.cc/~zack/tags/awesome/zack's home pageikiwiki2013-02-15T18:25:42ZGNOME Awesome Applethttp://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2010/11/GNOME_Awesome_Applet/2013-02-15T18:25:42Z2010-11-24T17:15:24Z
<h1>using GNOME with Awesome without die trying</h1>
<p>I'm an avid <a href="http://www.gnome.org">GNOME</a> user, but I
don't want to give up <a href=
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager">tiling</a> due
to that.</p>
<p>After <a href=
"http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2009/04/xmonad_+_gnome_on_Debian/">1.5 years with
xmonad+GNOME</a>, I've decided it was about time to give <a href=
"http://awesome.naquadah.org/">Awesome</a> another try. Last time I
tried, integration with GNOME was really sub-optimal; in particular
I've been it by the showstopping (for me) issue that it was not
possible, back then, to <a href=
"http://awesome.naquadah.org/bugs/index.php?do=details&task_id=503">
disable Awesome systray</a> in favor of GNOME's.</p>
<p>Nowadays, GNOME+Awesome integration is much better. It's very
easy to disable all you don't want of Awesome (including systray)
to rely upon corresponding GNOME desktop components (check my
<a href=
"http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2010/11/GNOME_Awesome_Applet/rc.lua">rc.lua</a>
for an example).</p>
<p>Still, by renouncing Wibox in favor of GNOME Panel, you (used
to) lack some features: (1) the ability to <strong>monitor the
current layout</strong>, (2) <strong>(GNOME) run application
prompt</strong>, and (3) <strong>Lua code prompt</strong>. It is to
overcome these limitations that I've hacked <a href=
"http://upsilon.cc/~zack/hacking/software/gnome-awesome-applet/"><strong>GNOME
Awesome Applet</strong></a>.</p>
<p>Version 0.1.0 is now available for download from the <a href=
"http://upsilon.cc/~zack/hacking/software/gnome-awesome-applet/">homepage</a>. It's
beta-quality and it's the first (hopefully last?) GNOME Applet I've
ever written, … you know the drill. Feedback, bug reports, features
requests, and <a href=
"http://git.upsilon.cc/?p=gnome-awesome-applet.git;a=summary">code</a>
patches are more than welcome.</p>
<p>Enjoy!</p>