How many of you use Awesome wm?

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So not sadly at all :slightly_smiling_face:

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I thought it might be okay if it was setup like i3 with only the window tiling that makes sense and disable all the rest.

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There are a lot more options, it can be confusing at first. I switched it down to 3 different tiling modes. Also found an easy way to automatically import all the apps into the right click menu, but was surprised that this doesn’t work out of the box, like in openbox I think.

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DIY!!!111 :partying_face:
Which way have you used? :upside_down_face:

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Doesn’t have wayland support unfortunately.

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https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/wayland

Sway and qtile are good alternatives if Wayland is a must.

I am also dabbling into suckless wm, but these are xorg focussed at the moment.

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So are we going to see an awesome wm enos edition?

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Aha, at least I could post my config but still working on it. Just had a first look last weekend, it needs more time. I am a bit on the fence to try dwm next weekend. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

The major thing is that I had to install a couple of extra packages and am wondering what’s best to do. I installed eos xfce, then installed awesome. Another option would be to just install the base system and make a list of packages installed afterwards to keep minimal.

My only worry is that the status bar needs these widgets from GitHub, and I don’t really know how trustworthy streeturtle or any other source posting these widgets can be.

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I did so many things, can’t even recall anymore. Looking at my terminal I entered this

xdg_menu --format awesome --root-menu /etc/xdg/menus/arch-applications.menu > ~/.config/awesome/archmenu.lua

Edit: here to be added to rc.lua (link in my next post below)

Then, edit your rc.lua as shown below.

    Add a require statment for your new menu.lua file.
    Add an entry to your awful.menu object for your new menu which calls xdg-menu.

...
xdg_menu = require("archmenu")
...

...
mymainmenu = awful.menu({ items = { { "awesome", myawesomemenu, beautiful.awesome_icon },
                                    { "Applications", xdgmenu },
                                    { "open terminal", terminal }
                                  }
                        })
...
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If i were you - i’d self document it in nice markdown file or soemthing :upside_down_face:

P.S. Well, in that particular case it’s in Arch wiki anyway

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yes that’s a great idea. But I was doing so many things by trial, error, searching, that I planned on trying to set this up again on another computer and make the list.

Just found the link again

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xdg-menu#Awesome

Edit: and I also discovered the keybinding Mod4+p which is awesome

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Basic setup.

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Not going to happen any time soon.

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https://github.com/djpohly/dwl

What about this project? I mean it’s a derivative of dwm but the philosophy seems similar to suckless description:

  • Easy to understand, hack on, and extend with patches
  • One C source file (or a very small number) configurable via config.h
  • Limited to 2000 SLOC to promote hackability
  • Tied to as few external dependencies as possible
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Just replying to everyone who complains because of Lua.
Lua is incredible SIMPLE and sane language. There is no rabbit hole.

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z

The last post on this thread is 3+ years old. Perhaps start a Lua thread? this one is far to old to be of any value.

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