awesome-freedesktop
Freedesktop.org menu and desktop icons support for Awesome WM (by lcpz)
vicious
Vicious is a modular widget library for the "awesome" window manager. (by vicious-widgets)
awesome-freedesktop | vicious | |
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5 | 10 | |
126 | 385 | |
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0.0 | 3.6 | |
over 1 year ago | 5 months ago | |
Lua | Lua | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | 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-freedesktop
Posts with mentions or reviews of awesome-freedesktop.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-21.
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Not all .desktop files are being put in the "main menu"
Default awesome config doesn't parse .desktop files at all. Some deb based distributions modified it to use awesome-freedesktop but it's surely not an only way to get the application menu (there are stand alone apps like rofi). So first of all you should mention which way to create the menu are you using.
- best menu for awesome ?
- jgmenu in awesomewm
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Where all the menu entries?
Freedesktop.org compliant menu and desktop icons - older style, but dynamic. Not bad, but not for me. https://github.com/lcpz/awesome-freedesktop
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Personal Wallpapers
Behold the desktop icons! I present you the awesome-freedesktop module by lcpz: https://github.com/lcpz/awesome-freedesktop
vicious
Posts with mentions or reviews of vicious.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-22.
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It's taken me all day, but I've just got my widgets changing colour with load, battery, wifi and CPU temp and I'm having an embarrassing amount of fun
It's from vicious widgets.
- Help with battery widget
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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.
- Desktop Utilities when coming from a DE
- where to lean scripting lua for awesome wm?
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I'm trying to use a widget but it won't work
Also I found this https://github.com/vicious-widgets/vicious/blob/master/widgets/cmus_all.lua
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Is there any tutorial on creating widgets?
https://github.com/vicious-widgets/vicious a well known repo with widgets you can take inspiration from
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noob in awesome need some help with temp widget
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52634985/awesome-wm-os-execute-vs-afwul-spawn https://github.com/vicious-widgets/vicious/issues/74
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Lightweight DE on good hardware. Worth it ?
I'm using https://awesomewm.org/ with the https://github.com/vicious-widgets/vicious for almost 9 years now. I did spent the first year (on and off of course) tweaking everything to my liking.
- Need help with customizing the status bar
What are some alternatives?
When comparing awesome-freedesktop and vicious you can also consider the following projects:
awesomewm-config - RAVEN2CZ: AwesomeWM Configuration, Libraries and Themes.
lain - Awesome WM complements
awesome - awesome window manager
dotfiles - :wrench: .files, including ~/.macos — sensible hacker defaults for macOS
awesome-wm-widgets - Widgets for Awesome Window Manager
xmenu - a x11 menu utility
bling - Utilities for the awesome window manager
dotfiles - My dotfiles. Buyer beware ;)
awesome-config - Awesome WM config
dotfiles - My desktop and WSL configuration files
cmus - Small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.
awesome-freedesktop vs awesomewm-config
vicious vs lain
awesome-freedesktop vs lain
vicious vs awesome
awesome-freedesktop vs dotfiles
vicious vs awesome-wm-widgets
awesome-freedesktop vs xmenu
vicious vs bling
awesome-freedesktop vs dotfiles
vicious vs awesome-config
awesome-freedesktop vs dotfiles
vicious vs cmus