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Awesome 3.5 released

Awesome 3.5 released

Posted Dec 31, 2012 8:16 UTC (Mon) by yoshi314 (guest, #36190)
Parent article: Awesome 3.5 released

It was a very bumpy ride around 3.5-rc1, when even awesome's own libraries were slightly broken. And upon encountering any syntax errors in config script, awesome would kill the X session (very annoying when using some login manager - it was hard to find the reasons for errors). At some point i just switched to dwm.

Fortunately, things seem to have been resolved now. You just have to start from scratch with default configuration and use your favorite merge tool to re-apply your customizations. 3rd party plugins might require some rewrites, though.

And most of the time, config file with syntax errors will not prevent awesome from loading and showing a couple of popups with summary of errors. So if you mess up, you will know what is wrong. A welcome upgrade.


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