{"id":1585,"date":"2017-07-04T14:53:45","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T14:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/?p=1585"},"modified":"2017-07-04T14:53:45","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T14:53:45","slug":"awesome-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/?p=1585","title":{"rendered":"Awesome rant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a long time user of <a href=\"https:\/\/awesomewm.org\">Awesome WM<\/a> as my window manager. However we had a major version bump (3.5 -> 4.1) from the ports today and my configuration disintegrated like a mellowcake that just found itself teleported into the twenty-fourth dimension. This is a recurring problem with this window manager, their API is as much stable as a node.js developer under influence on St Patrick&#8217;s day. Now if you are using the default configuration you&#8217;ll be fine. But if your configuration is heavily customized, man, you are in for a ride!<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully FreeBSD port maintainers being the good guys that they are, it is still possible to install the older version from the <code>x11-wm\/awesome3<\/code> port. This will remove <code>x11-wm\/awesome-vicious<\/code> though. But if you ever need to install lib-vicious for Awesome3, I archived my own version <a href=\"http:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/files\/vicious-2.1.3_awesome-3.5.9-FreeBSD.tar.xz\">here<\/a>. This also comes with patches for some widgets on FreeBSD which I have been too lazy to report (my bad).<\/p>\n<p>Now I am not yet entirely sure if I will stay on Awesome3 for a while, upgrade to Awesome4 eventually, switch to i3 or xmonad. Well, we&#8217;ll see about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a long time user of Awesome WM as my window manager. However we had a major version bump (3.5 -> 4.1) from the ports today and my configuration disintegrated like a mellowcake that just found itself teleported into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/?p=1585\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[862,863,858,861,389,859,860,864],"class_list":["post-1585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-3-5","tag-4-1","tag-awesome","tag-bump","tag-freebsd","tag-rant","tag-version","tag-vicious"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}