Awesome window manager

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2010–2016), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Awesome window manager, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 5 complaints

Reloading config passes syntax check but still fails to start, so the user gave up customizing2016-11-09
Takes a lot of effort to customize before it works smoothly2015-02-10
Workspaces seem tied to particular monitors, can't easily swap them2011-11-23
Not intuitive or user friendly; too pre-customised, worse than defaults for newcomers2011-08-04
Default key bindings don't suit Dvorak, so the user must remap many of them2010-01-19