dotfiles VS awesome-wm-widgets

Check out https://github.com/daviwil/dotfiles and the SystemCrafters YouTube channel and Github page. Lots of good stuff there for full system configuration.

Then check out the System Crafters website. There is a youtube channel, but David Wilson's notes and his dotfiles are quicker to navigate if you know what you're looking for.

I was watching some videos and saw this https://github.com/daviwil/dotfiles/blob/master/Emacs.org, which is HUUUGE. Is there some other resource that I can just start with one piece/package at a time and keep adding more slowly?

Explanation for not using sudo -E: https://github.com/daviwil/dotfiles/issues/11

I'm trying to create a configuration with a base-system module with multiple machine configurations deriving from it, based on the example shared by David Wilson in his github repo: https://github.com/daviwil/dotfiles

You should avoid using sudo -E or your home directory is slowly gonna fill up with root-owned files.

Lisp take a while to learn, but you really don't need too much knowledge. I would recommend using blocks of code from others' configs as a beginner.

While watching a Systems Crafters playlist about emacs I decided I wanted to checkout his configuration to see if it had anything I would find useful. As his style of development is different from mine I did not find a whole lot, but I did find something useful. In his init.el he has a section that moves files like places to a different directory to keep his ~/.emacs.d clean. As I keep my ~/.emacs.d directory as a symbolic link to my dotfiles repository I immediately added this to my configuration; however, it does not seem to work at least as I expected it to. Within my init.el I have a block of code that is copied from his, but modified slightly to create ~/.cache/emacs if it does not already exist, and then apply the changes to where these files should be stored. I don't seem to get any errors, but this also does not seem to change where those files get stored. Am I misunderstanding what his block of code does?

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 })