On Fri, 05 Feb 2016 19:09:04 +0100, Axel Beckert wrote: > > > Nah. Awesomewm is much better! ;-) > <serious> > Unfortunately no more. I still have awesome on hold on 3.4.15-1 > because 3.5.x is incompatible with the no more updated awesome-extra > package. And without awesome-extra, awesome is far less awesome... :-( And because 3.5 changed configuration file syntax. Anyway, good to see I'm not alone: % apt-cache policy awesome awesome: Installed: 3.4.15-1+b1 Candidate: 3.5.6-1 Version table: 3.5.6-1 990 500 http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages 990 http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages *** 3.4.15-1+b1 500 500 http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian stable/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3.4.13-1 500 500 http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian oldstable/main amd64 Packages > So I wonder if I should switch to i3 which is properly maintained and > seems to have all the features I need since 4.x... Same here. My current opinion is: use aweseome as long as it works, then switch to i3. (I was also late to switch from ion3 to awesome.) Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage https://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - https://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Funny Van Dannen: Las Vegas
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