awesome_config
config for AwesomeWM (by actionless)
tos-desktop-environment
Home of TDE - The official desktop environment of TOS (by ODEX-TOS)
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6.6 | 4.1 | |
14 days ago | about 2 years 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_config
Posts with mentions or reviews of awesome_config.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-20.
- Where to start learning configuring awesome?
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What can other WMs do that awesomeWM can *not*
Another great example comes from one of awesome's developers, actionless who also developed oomox, the GTK theme customization software written in python you probably heard of. For more experimental configurations, there is another awesome dev, Avatar Emmanuel Lepage Vallée, who has a number of repos spun out of pull requests that offer glimpses into other directions one can take with Lua. Really the sky is the limit and that's definitely not the case with sway that makes you apologize for using Nvidia just to get it to run...
tos-desktop-environment
Posts with mentions or reviews of tos-desktop-environment.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-24.
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Looking at you, Rainmeter
AwesomeWM provides an api to render graphs, that i know for sure, also, AwesomeWM can definitely create application launcher bars. It's just that most posts you see on r/unixporn that show off AwesomeWM aren't indicative of how powerful its API is, for example - here's an entire DE written with AwesomeWM: https://github.com/ODEX-TOS/tos-desktop-environment/
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What can other WMs do that awesomeWM can *not*
The thing about awesomewm that is so interesting, for those of us that are neurotic enough to truly even want this (like me) is that with awesome and nothing else if you dare, you can code out the rest of what would make up your ideal DE on the GUI side of things. With enough time, even rofi can be replaced by home-rolled lua modules. Sure its a lot of work and a lot more looking through other repos but you can do it and all you will really need to add in are the terminal programs to hook into the output of and a GTK theme. Until I finish my work on this topic, Tom Meyer's TDE part of his TOS is an excellent example of exactly that, he really has made an entire DE with just lua code and some terminal applications. Its excellent work, opinionated in the extreme but that's kind of the point after all.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing awesome_config and tos-desktop-environment you can also consider the following projects:
yoru - 夜 - Yoru | Aesthetic and Beautiful Awesome Environment :first_quarter_moon:
Shell - Linux Application Launcher using a radial menu, recommended window manager configurations and more
awesome - the flying spaghetti monster of code, taking good ideas from around the awesomewm community and making a workflow enabled powerhouse with a bleeding edge take on Neumorphism in X11
tos - tree of savior addons for jtos and itos in Japan.
dotfiles - There is no place like ~/
xwallpaper - wallpaper setting utility for X