Navigation in Awesome Edition

Navigating in our operating system is very important if you wish to speed up your workflow. And of course to become more aware on how to use your system to its full potential.

Learn the keybindings

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Understand Tiling Window Managers

Read the page about Tiling Window Managers before reading this. Because you will need to know the terminology.

All these keybindings will be about the Tiling Window manager. Of course there are more keybindings in specific applications. Those will not be covered here.

Keybindings - basics

The mod key equals your windows key.

• To open up the application launcher use mod+d
• To open up a terminal use mod+Enter
• To kill a program use mod+q
• To move to another workspace use mod+number where number is a number between 0 and 7
• To make a application fullscreen use mod+f

Keybindings - good to know

• To open up a cheatsheet use mod+f1
• To move a application to another workscape use mod+shift+number where number is a number between 0 and 7
• Move the current focus to the next window using mod+arrow_key
• Move the current window to a directorion using mod+shift+arrow_key

Toggle floating mode

Floating mode is the mode where applications are "free" from the tiling paradigm. The can have the resolution they want and you can move them freely. Much like the traditional window managers do.
All you need to do to enable this mode is use mod+c

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Cheatsheet

If you forgot any of these keybindings you can always use mod+f1 to see a full list