I've been experimenting with the awesome tiling window manager as a replacement to KDE's kwin, and I've managed to hack together a recipe for getting them up an running. It's surprisingly simple, although the learing curve was a little steep.

This post documents what I've done to get things working nicely with the basic awesome config. No customisations here, see the awesome wiki for some ideas.

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I like the "focus follows mouse" window-focussing model from X11, because

• I don't have to click on the window, just move the mouse and the window it's over is focussed
• I can focus a window without bringing it to the front, which is sometimes handy. If I want it in front, I can click it.

However MS-Windows follows the old-fashioned, Macintosh/Smalltalk style of having users click on a window to focus it for the keyboard. How do you make MS-Windows behave more like X11?

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