[SOLVED] Using awesome wm without a mouse?

After recently learning Vim, then installing Vimperator on Firefox, I've found that using the keyboard for navigating links and the like to be the shit.
Naturally, I want to extend this to my window manager. So, is there any way to really use awesome without a mouse? For instance, accessing the tray icons...
I'd be very appreciative of any keyboard shortcuts relevant to this, or if awesome doesn't support this all that well, a list of some other window managers that do would be much appreciated.
Last edited by Whef (2012-11-16 10:37:56)

Trilby wrote:
Whef wrote:... the fact that nobody else has done it before (edit: that I know of. ).
? You don't get out much (in the open source world) do you ?
I don't know if the suckless team was one of the first to take this approach - perhaps, they have certainly established a useful coding style / template for many others. But it has become very common in open source projects.
Well, considering how I switched to Linux 3 months ago... yes. I'm still learning.
ZekeSulastin wrote:
Whef wrote:It both forces upstream to keep their code clean, and the users of the software to really understand what's going on with the program. Definitely looking forward to trying that out.
It does? I don't need to know C to grab and apply patch off a website (like suckless' own) or to edit config.h to change my keybinds or client rules. Of course, writing my own patches would require such knowledge, but that's hardly unique to dwm (see: my minimal-knowledge remove-separator kludge for i3bar, people writing new awesomewm functions or layouts in Lua, etc).
Well, the way they phrased it on the website ...
dwm.suckless.org wrote:You don’t have to learn Lua/sh/ruby or some weird configuration file format (like X resource files), beside C, to customize it for your needs: you only have to learn C (at least in order to edit the header file).
Makes it seem like you do have to know C to configure it.
Last edited by Whef (2012-11-16 22:37:30)

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