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awesome | lain | |
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223 | 24 | |
6,110 | 1,045 | |
1.5% | - | |
7.2 | 0.0 | |
13 days ago | 3 months ago | |
Lua | Lua | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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.
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
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.
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Hyprland Crash Course
https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/issues/3132
- 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
lain
Posts with mentions or reviews of lain.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-25.
- Were can I study aligning widgets on wibar (or writing awesome widgets in general)?
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Is this an efficient way to do system monitoring?
Welcome to AW! A few points that may come in handy. * Read awesome-git API documentation first. There are a lot of points about it. * Do not use io.popen https://awesomewm.org/apidoc/libraries/awful.spawn.html * Encapsulate business logic to user custom library and re-use code for your widgets. Remove it from rc.lua. * You can use producer-consumer pattern to create signals and add graphical widget listeners to it. https://github.com/raven2cz/awesomewm-config/blob/master/fishlive/status/archupdates.lua https://github.com/raven2cz/awesomewm-config/blob/master/themes/multicolor/theme.lua * nvidia: nvidia-smi --query-gpu=temperature.gpu --format=csv,noheader,nounits * Other basics mem, net, etc. looks here, sometimes is better to use library: https://github.com/lcpz/lain/tree/master/widget * optional: try to divide GUI graphical components (theme parts, and your custom libs) and business logic layer (rc.lua). After a few months, you won't know why and where you implemented it, and you need to keep it in order. Especially the initialization order of the components. Lua requires a strictly sequential order.
- Help with battery widget
- How to get the middle main window layout?
- Desktop Utilities when coming from a DE
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Password function with lain imap widget
I'm quite confused how to implement the password function for lain imap widget (https://github.com/lcpz/lain/wiki/imap) - using pass (author recommends spm or pass) gpg (and not plain text).
- Which layout can give me these kind of result?
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How to get battery notification and change wibox theme background in awesome wm
Probably you're using some widgets made by someone else. I see you have a require "lain" in your rc so it's safe to assume you're using lain's widgets, found here: https://github.com/lcpz/lain I'm not familiar with them and currently I am not at the PC but in this file in the repo: https://github.com/lcpz/lain/blob/master/widget/bat.lua You can find this piece of code: bat_notification_critical_preset = { title = "Battery exhausted", text = "Shutdown imminent", timeout = 15, fg = "#000000", bg = "#FFFFFF" } Check out how it works and maybe add your own presets. Good luck.
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Lain Bat widget updating issue.
You can read more in their wiki : https://github.com/lcpz/lain/wiki/bat
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where to lean scripting lua for awesome wm?
Lain: https://github.com/lcpz/lain
What are some alternatives?
When comparing awesome and lain you can also consider the following projects:
Hyprland - Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
awesome-wm-widgets - Widgets for Awesome Window Manager
i3 - A tiling window manager for X11
vicious - Vicious is a modular widget library for the "awesome" window manager.
dunst - Lightweight and customizable notification daemon
net_widgets - Network widgets for Awesome WM
pywal - 🎨 Generate and change color-schemes on the fly.
awesome-copycats - Awesome WM themes
Hardcode-Tray - Fixes Hardcoded tray icons in Linux
NsCDE - Modern and functional CDE desktop based on FVWM
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
bling - Utilities for the awesome window manager