dotfiles VS bling

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/ChocolateBread799/dotfiles ~/dotfiles ln -s ~/.dotfiles/awesome ~/.dotfiles/img ~/.dotfiles/rofi ~/.dotfiles/picom.conf ~/.config/

[I tried to see at least if the icons are part of a pack so you could install it in your popOS, turns out they are all custom. The repo is here, if you want to check it out.]

ChocolateBread799's dotfiles - first of these configs whose dev found out about Dribbble it seems, prompting the knockoff neumorphic trend. Also of the JavaCafe01 vein of configurations (using the same organizational paradigm) as it seems JavaCafe01 deduced how to use Rubato and those who join the cool kids Discord channel are hip to the knowledge the rest of us, without need for socializing in the AwesomeWM crowd (I am over 30, I can barely tolerate having one friend and a gf, let alone people as interested in Awesome as I am). Rubato is in the configuration but the short examination I performed in preparing this for you, I could not find an implementation example, so not sure how actually helpful this maybe.

Look to this https://github.com/ChocolateBread799/dotfiles/blob/main/config/awesome/notifs/init.lua

I wonder if there's a library that has handled something like that. Bling maybe?

Widgets are typically obtained by either using widget collections, such a Vicious or Bling, by "extracting" them from other people's repos or by just writing them yourself. Note that, to customize awesome, you really do want to learn how to use the widget system, as otherwise, you'd be missing out on one of awesome's greatest strengths. Also, no, it doesn't matter which distro you use. They are almost always distro independent (except for maybe something like a package update notifier or something, as that really can't be done distro independently). It does however matter whether you use the stable release (4.3 as of now) or the current git master, as stable is about 3 years old while the git master is in very active development. Some of the cooler widgets may only work on the git master branch.

Javacafe01 - evidently he has archived his repo, guess NixOS is getting to him. He is also the primary developer behind Bling which also implements Rubato, but in such a way as to take esoteric to new heights if you aren't used to making sense of the big foot scat that is awesomewm configurations.

About bling library bugs and improvements you can insert the issue directly to github project: https://github.com/BlingCorp/bling/issues

There is an external library for Awesome called Bling that implements scratchpads. I've never used i3 so I'm just assuming they are similar. Here is a link to the docs for the Bling scratchpads.

https://github.com/BlingCorp/bling/blob/master/layout/vertical.lua works for me

This question is asked from time to time. Recently I seen some very good try to implement it. I think it was in Bling. Check the tag preview widget there.

Bling