Oops, forgot to mention, lxpanel running on the top of the main monitor,
in pop down on mouse hover mode. I did give the Awesome panel a try, but
didn't like it's widgets.

On 2024-02-28 17:51:33, onefang wrote:
> On 2024-02-28 02:09:55, Steve Litt wrote:
> > onefang said on Wed, 28 Feb 2024 13:38:15 +1000
> >
> > >I set it up that way on the last
> > >window manager I used, Openbox, and on the one I use now, Awesome.
> >
> > Awesome is a tiling WM, right? Please tell us how you like it, you
> > mindset while using it, and the effect it has on your workflow.
>
> Awesome is hybrid, it can tile or not. On my two monitor setup I have
> one monitor off to the side with tiled IM programs (coz there's sooo
> many protocols) and the main monitor isn't tiled, everything else goes
> there.
>
> If you have had a peek at my apt-panopticon code you'll know I'm a fan of
> Lua as a scripting language. That's why I tried Awesome, coz it is
> configured and scripted in Lua.
>
> I really only had a quick dabble with Awesomes scripts and configs, and
> managed to get things the way I like them.
>
> So the various IM programs get sent to the right monitor. Psi+ gets
> tiled at the bottom half, with Hexchat and SchildiChat tiled evenly
> across the top.
>
> On the main monitor there are five work spaces.
>
> 1) Termit terminal emulator running maximised with no window borders and
> a tiny font to maximize the amount of text on screen. In that is tmux
> with 16 "windows", running a bunch of mc's, neo mutt, htop, multitail
> being fed a bunch of /var/log files, and lots of ssh sessions to the
> servers I look after. KeePassXC is also running there and I can switch
> between them with "Windows"-tab.
>
> (BTW I prefer maximised with no border over fullscreen, coz often
> fullscreen means "grab keyboard and mouse", so you can't tab to other
> windows or switch to other workspaces. I have seen fullscreen take over
> BOTH monitors.)
>
> 2) Firefox-ESR, also maximised and borderless. QuiteRSS, borderless but
> only vertically maximised. For a lot of things I can leave the RSS
> reader in front and still be able to read web pages, coz this is my
> ultrawide monitor. QuiteRSS can open pages in Firefox-ESR.
>
> 3) Conky, using my own Lua theme and scripting.
>
> 4) Music production. In this case most of the windows are normal sized,
> but MusE (the DAW I use) is maximised, but not borderrless, coz important
> info is shown in the borders. The other windows being the various parts
> of QjackCtl, and VLC if I'm not making music, so I can listen to my
> favourite Internet radio stations. Sometimes I might popup other sub
> windows from the DAW, like instrument editors, the track router, or
> other music making tools. Again these will be normal sized.
>
> 5) OpenSim virtual world viewers. Maximised and borderless, I'll often
> have two running at once, sometimes three.
>
> Naturally, since I'm a programmer, all of this is scripted to start up
> when I log on, and Awesome scripting decides what happens to which
> window when ever it starts.
>
> I'm loving the tiling things on one monitor, while not on the other. I
> can also drag a window from one to the other, or use a hotkey to do that.
> This is useful if I'm gonna be using one of the IM programs for a lengthy
> chat, then I can bring it to the main monitor. Otherwise I can just
> glance at the IM monitor quickly to check if there's been messages.
>
> Also on the main monitor is dunst and other popups. These stick to the
> monitor no matter which workspace, and size themselves to fit their text.
>
> It's not perfect, but it's entirely possible that if I dabble some more
> with the config and scripting I can probably fix the minor issues.
>
> Initial quick dabble, good enough result, I'm happy.
>
> So basically if you are a Lua scripter, it's very customizable and
> flexible.
>
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