KwesomeDE
A desktop environment made in AwesomeWM (by Kasper24)
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Utilities for the awesome window manager (by Nooo37)
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KwesomeDE
Posts with mentions or reviews of KwesomeDE.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-20.
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Awesome WM customizer/configurator
u/BaigGam3rss I still have some work to do to make my own widgets but you probably start with the documentation [1][2]. And then look at some other projects that use Awesome API to build widgets (ex: [3][4][5][6][7]).
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Network manager?
I found the wireless widget from https://github.com/Kasper24/KwesomeDE quite nice.
- looking for the best awesomewm config
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Newbie to window manager, why use awesome over other dynamic wm ?
Awesome is very different from other window managers...It's a framework window manager! Through its API you can create widgets that are not possible in other WMs (ex: [1],[2],[3].[4]). Furthermore, AwesomeWM can be used as a tiling window managers and as a stacking window managers (like XFCE).
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Dropdown menu in awesome wm
Yes it is possible to do with Awesome API, some examples: https://github.com/rxyhn/yoru#ocean--gallery https://github.com/AlphaTechnolog/dotfiles/tree/awesomewm https://github.com/manilarome/the-glorious-dotfiles https://github.com/Kasper24/KwesomeDE
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Import pywal awesome?
Sorry looks like i misspelt the name, here it is https://github.com/Kasper24/KwesomeDE
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animations
KwesomeDE - as well as implementing what seems like his own animations and reinventing a few more wheels than I think will practically ever work outside his own system, though thoroughly interesting.
bling
Posts with mentions or reviews of bling.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-25.
- Creating custom layout examples
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How to add gap on one side?
I wonder if there's a library that has handled something like that. Bling maybe?
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New to awesome, have a few questions
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.
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animations
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.
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How to color layoutbox?
About bling library bugs and improvements you can insert the issue directly to github project: https://github.com/BlingCorp/bling/issues
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Help : Scratchpads in awesomewm
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.
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simple horizontal tile
https://github.com/BlingCorp/bling/blob/master/layout/vertical.lua works for me
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Desktop Pager
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.
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[OC] Introducing Bling - Utilities for AwesomeWM (More layouts, tabbing, preview widgets, and more!)
Bling
- Alternative b/c wayland
What are some alternatives?
When comparing KwesomeDE and bling you can also consider the following projects:
picom - A lightweight compositor for X11
awesome-wm-widgets - Widgets for Awesome Window Manager
awesomewm-config - RAVEN2CZ: AwesomeWM Configuration, Libraries and Themes.
eww - ElKowars wacky widgets
yoru - 夜 - Yoru | Aesthetic and Beautiful Awesome Environment :first_quarter_moon:
awesome - awesome window manager
rice - Home Sweet Home
awestore - Sveltes store API for AwesomeWM.
rubato - Create smooth animations with a slope curve for awesomeWM
awesome-revelation - Show all clients all screens in Awesome window manager
dotfiles - A repository that contains a collection of various rices that i made over the time
lain - Awesome WM complements