awesome-copycats VS awesome-wm-widgets

Not sure how I can start applications in /etc/xdg/autostart/ in awesomeWM. Have this in my rc.lua (from lcpz/awesome-copycats rc.lua.template): awful.spawn.with_shell(

I wouldn't pick a distro based on this. If you want a pre-config check out awesomewm-copycats

I'm working from a theme from here: https://github.com/lcpz/awesome-copycats/tree/master/themes that I've tweaked a little bit. So there are two files involved:

You can look at the docs for awful.wibar to see all of the options, and have a look at some example configs like awesome-copycats to see what's possible and actual examples of how the wibar options are used.

https://github.com/lcpz/awesome-copycats Powerline-Dark is the theme used here.

Start exploring official documentation, there is section about default configuration. You can also take a look at existing themes like awesome-copycats or manilaromes glorious dotfiles and see how they do things and start experimenting.

Hi, I've been using awesome for some months already, most of the confix coming from https://github.com/lcpz/awesome-copycats.

My config is mostly based on awesome-copycats with some custom additions.

I'm trying to get the most out of my OS (Arch with X11 and Awesomewm), but I'm stuck with the widgets. I would like to create/use some utilities like an interactive calendar, small TODO list, dropdown menu, etc. but using the awesomewm widgets is too difficult and limiting. I found eww but it seems as difficult as the former widgets.

Hello, I am new to Linux (using Mint rn) and very new to Awesome. I installed Pavel Makhov's awesome-wm-widgets pack since that seems very cool and widely used. While the arc portion of the widget works perfectly fine, the actual charge isn't showing in the middle of the arc. Here's what I mean.

I am a noob to awesome wm, and have tried several times to get the widgets from https://github.com/streetturtle/awesome-wm-widgets to work. I am not understanding the directions, and whenever I try it always throws me errors that i cannot figure out. Can anyone give me detailed instructions on how to setup these up?

Check tips & tricks section here, there are two tutorials on widget creation: https://pavelmakhov.com/awesome-wm-widgets/ You can also have a look at the source code of https://github.com/streetturtle/awesome-wm-widgets

> What widgets are you referring to that you found to have leaks?

I'll cite myself here: https://github.com/streetturtle/awesome-wm-widgets/issues/11...

I've had similar issues wherever GTK interacts with awful.spawn . Hence my GTK + awful.spawn.easy_async = extremely leak-prone

Here's another affected library [1]: https://github.com/deficient/volume-control

[1]: No bug under the main repo because they're considering it as a framework bug. See here for discussion: https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/issues/3584#issuecommen...

You can try this widget: https://github.com/streetturtle/awesome-wm-widgets/tree/master/logout-menu-widget

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]).

------------------------------------------------- -- Logout Menu Widget for Awesome Window Manager -- More details could be found here: -- https://github.com/streetturtle/awesome-wm-widgets/tree/master/logout-menu-widget -- @author Pavel Makhov -- @copyright 2020 Pavel Makhov ------------------------------------------------- local awful = require("awful") local wibox = require("wibox") local gears = require("gears") local beautiful = require("beautiful") local naughty = require("naughty") local HOME = os.getenv('HOME') local ICON_DIR = HOME .. '/.config/awesome/awesome-wm-widgets/logout-menu-widget/icons/' local logout_menu_widget = wibox.widget { { { image = ICON_DIR .. 'power_w.svg', resize = true, id = "iimage", widget = wibox.widget.imagebox, }, margins = 4, layout = wibox.container.margin }, shape = function(cr, width, height) gears.shape.rounded_rect(cr, width, height, 4) end, widget = wibox.container.background, } local popup = awful.popup { ontop = true, visible = false, shape = function(cr, width, height) gears.shape.rounded_rect(cr, width, height, 4) end, border_width = 1, border_color = beautiful.bg_focus, maximum_width = 400, offset = { y = 5 }, widget = {} } local function worker(user_args) local rows = { layout = wibox.layout.fixed.vertical } local args = user_args or {} local font = args.font or beautiful.font local onlogout = args.onlogout or function () awesome.quit() end local onlock = args.onlock or function() awful.spawn.with_shell("i3lock") end local onreboot = args.onreboot or function() awful.spawn.with_shell("reboot") end local onsuspend = args.onsuspend or function() awful.spawn.with_shell("systemctl suspend") end local onpoweroff = args.onpoweroff or function() awful.spawn.with_shell("shutdown now") end local menu_items = { { name = 'Log out', icon_name = 'log-out.svg', command = onlogout }, { name = 'Lock', icon_name = 'lock.svg', command = onlock }, { name = 'Reboot', icon_name = 'refresh-cw.svg', command = onreboot }, { name = 'Suspend', icon_name = 'moon.svg', command = onsuspend }, { name = 'Power off', icon_name = 'power.svg', command = onpoweroff }, } for _, item in ipairs(menu_items) do local row = wibox.widget { { { { image = ICON_DIR .. item.icon_name, resize = false, widget = wibox.widget.imagebox }, { text = item.name, font = font, widget = wibox.widget.textbox }, spacing = 12, layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal }, margins = 8, layout = wibox.container.margin }, bg = beautiful.bg_normal, widget = wibox.container.background } row:connect_signal("mouse::enter", function(c) c:set_bg(beautiful.bg_focus) end) row:connect_signal("mouse::leave", function(c) c:set_bg(beautiful.bg_normal) end) local old_cursor, old_wibox row:connect_signal("mouse::enter", function() local wb = mouse.current_wibox old_cursor, old_wibox = wb.cursor, wb wb.cursor = "hand1" end) row:connect_signal("mouse::leave", function() if old_wibox then old_wibox.cursor = old_cursor old_wibox = nil end end) --row:buttons(awful.util.table.join(awful.button({}, 1, function() -- popup.visible = not popup.visible -- item.command() --end))) row:add_button(awful.button({}, 1, function() popup.visible = not popup.visible item.command() end)) table.insert(rows, row) end popup:setup(rows) -- logout_menu_widget:buttons( -- awful.util.table.join( -- awful.button({}, 1, function() -- if popup.visible then -- popup.visible = not popup.visible -- logout_menu_widget:set_bg('#00000000') -- else -- popup:move_next_to(mouse.current_widget_geometry) -- logout_menu_widget:set_bg(beautiful.bg_focus) -- end -- end) -- ) -- ) logout_menu_widget:add_button( awful.button({}, 1, function() naughty.notify({text = "button pressed"}) if popup.visible then naughty.notify({text = "visible"}) popup.visible = not popup.visible logout_menu_widget:set_bg('#00000000') else naughty.notify({text = "invisible"}) popup:move_next_to(mouse.current_widget_geometry) logout_menu_widget:set_bg(beautiful.bg_focus) end end, function() naughty.notify({text = "button released"}) end) ) return logout_menu_widget end return setmetatable(logout_menu_widget, { __call = function(_, ...) return worker(...) end })