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Awesome WM themes (by lcpz)
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| awesome-copycats | awesome | |
|---|---|---|
| 23 | 223 | |
| 3,015 | 6,107 | |
| - | 1.5% | |
| 1.8 | 7.4 | |
| 6 months ago | 7 days ago | |
| Lua | Lua | |
| - | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
awesome-copycats
Posts with mentions or reviews of awesome-copycats.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-24.
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Pipewire / XDG autostart / AwesomeWM
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(
- help text too small
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Which AwesomeWm Distro
I wouldn't pick a distro based on this. If you want a pre-config check out awesomewm-copycats
- Any suggestions for beginner?
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Icon-Only Tasklist
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:
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Basic Wibar Creation
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.
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first rice to my artix machine (using awesome wm)
https://github.com/lcpz/awesome-copycats Powerline-Dark is the theme used here.
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Starting with awesome
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.
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Tiling mode, drag chrome tab to another window
Hi, I've been using awesome for some months already, most of the confix coming from https://github.com/lcpz/awesome-copycats.
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Windows not tiling
My config is mostly based on awesome-copycats with some custom additions.
awesome
Posts with mentions or reviews of awesome.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-23.
- Hyprland Crash Course
- Size of clients in the Master area
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Any plans on porting to wayland?
i'm reading this issue and this thread as i'm looking into migrate to wayland, since sooner or later we'll apparently have (i know this won't be very soon, but wayland is more and more mainstream). I know "any update on this?" is very annoying, and that's why i'm not open an issue, but... Any update on this?
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selecting menu options without releasing right click
I guess, it's not supported at the moment or you'll have to do some hacks.. There is this issue (#3777) with the same problem.
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[HELP] Dynamically change menu item title based on client.focus.maximized state
This is the correction in awesome-git: https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/pull/3657/files
- How to replicate this desktop?
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A linux newbie has installed and configured Arch. Minimalist graphical capabilities?
I use the Awesome Window Manager. At it's core, it's a little difficult to figure out. But once you get the hang of assigning hot keys and whatnot, You'll be able to use it more fluently. I use it on all 3 of my machines (two desktops and one laptop). I Love it! I copy my configs from the machine I started it with and put them on the other 2 machines. Works great!
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How to install and setup lightdm and awesomewm?
git clone https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome.git
- awful.keygrabber help
- new to awesome
What are some alternatives?
When comparing awesome-copycats and awesome you can also consider the following projects:
awesome-wm-widgets - Widgets for Awesome Window Manager
Hyprland - Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
sddm-lain-wired-theme - A sddm theme inspired by Serial experiments lain.
i3 - A tiling window manager for X11
lain - Awesome WM complements
dunst - Lightweight and customizable notification daemon
tyrannical - Dynamic tagging configuration system for awesomeWM
pywal - 🎨 Generate and change color-schemes on the fly.
awesome-dotfiles - Dotfiles for awesome people using the awesomewm linux environment
Hardcode-Tray - Fixes Hardcoded tray icons in Linux
net_widgets - Network widgets for Awesome WM
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
awesome-copycats vs awesome-wm-widgets
awesome vs Hyprland
awesome-copycats vs sddm-lain-wired-theme
awesome vs i3
awesome-copycats vs lain
awesome vs dunst
awesome-copycats vs tyrannical
awesome vs pywal
awesome-copycats vs awesome-dotfiles
awesome vs Hardcode-Tray
awesome-copycats vs net_widgets
awesome vs sway