Newbie to window manager, why use awesome over other dynamic wm ?

• dwm-flexipatch

  51 1,104 7.1 C

  A dwm build with preprocessor directives to decide which patches to include during build time

a lot of functionality can be added with patches, but you have to try and juggle those all yourself (and work out any conflicts between them yourself) - there are some projects like dwm-flexipatch to try and make it easier to deal with them, but it's way more trouble than I am interested in

• qtile-examples

  10 566 3.2 Python

  Example configurations and scripts for Qtile

  

basic notification system and example server

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• cozy

  2 179 9.0 Lua

  a practical and productive awm setup (by garado)

Awesome is very different from other window managers...It's a framework window manager! Through its API you can create widgets that are not possible in other WMs (ex: [1],[2],[3].[4]). Furthermore, AwesomeWM can be used as a tiling window managers and as a stacking window managers (like XFCE).

• KwesomeDE

  7 325 9.4 Lua

  A desktop environment made in AwesomeWM

Awesome is very different from other window managers...It's a framework window manager! Through its API you can create widgets that are not possible in other WMs (ex: [1],[2],[3].[4]). Furthermore, AwesomeWM can be used as a tiling window managers and as a stacking window managers (like XFCE).

• the-glorious-dotfiles

  24 2,464 0.0 Lua

  A glorified personal dot files

Awesome is very different from other window managers...It's a framework window manager! Through its API you can create widgets that are not possible in other WMs (ex: [1],[2],[3].[4]). Furthermore, AwesomeWM can be used as a tiling window managers and as a stacking window managers (like XFCE).

• dotfiles

  1 6 10.0

  My AwesomeWM configuration files!! 🌪️ . (preparing for new design) (by moonlight-coffee)

Awesome is very different from other window managers...It's a framework window manager! Through its API you can create widgets that are not possible in other WMs (ex: [1],[2],[3].[4]). Furthermore, AwesomeWM can be used as a tiling window managers and as a stacking window managers (like XFCE).

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