Re: emacs and awesome

[henry atting]

On Mi, Mär 31 2010, Andreas Politz wrote:

> henry atting <nsmp_01@online.de> writes:
>
>>  Some time ago I used awesome as my window manager but then switched to
>>  xmonad for I wanted not to deal with lua. Now I gave awesome another
>>  try and as everything works fine `out of the box` I maybe replace
>>  xmonad with awesome again. 
>>  
>>  I know some people in this group use awesome as well so I put my
>>  question here (I found the awesome community too elite for someone
>>  like me, unwilling to learn lua)
>
> One of the earlier awesome versions had this as a feature. Something
> like ,,easy configuration - no need to learn another language (like Lua)''.

Yes, those days are sadly gone.

>>
>>  Okay, when I set emacs to fullscreen, at the bottom of the screen
>>  always remains a small gap. No other programm shows this behaviour,
>>  so maybe it's an emacs problem.
>>
> I use xmonad and also had the same problems.  But they are fixed
> somewhere between 23.1.1 (debian testing) and 23.1.90.
>
> You either have to wait for your distro to catch up, build Emacs
> yourself or use one of the updated packages from some site, if
> available.
>

Mmh, with xmonad I never had this problem. My last emacs build is not
older than about 10 days. (GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1)
Last time I used awesome, one year ago or so, I had the same problem
with the emacs version at that time. Strange...

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