dotfiles VS awesome-wm-widgets

Compare dotfiles vs awesome-wm-widgets and see what are their differences.

dotfiles

:wrench: .files, including ~/.macos — sensible hacker defaults for macOS (by mathiasbynens)
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dotfiles awesome-wm-widgets
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29,774 2,029
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0.0 7.0
about 24 hours ago 18 days ago
Shell Lua
MIT License MIT License
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dotfiles

Posts with mentions or reviews of dotfiles. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-22.

awesome-wm-widgets

Posts with mentions or reviews of awesome-wm-widgets. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-23.
  • Widgets: which are the alternatives?
    2 projects | /r/awesomewm | 23 Nov 2023
    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.
  • How do I get the batteryarc-widget to work properly?
    1 project | /r/awesomewm | 26 Aug 2023
    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.
  • Widget help.
    1 project | /r/awesomewm | 28 Apr 2023
    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?
  • Were can I study aligning widgets on wibar (or writing awesome widgets in general)?
    5 projects | /r/awesomewm | 25 Apr 2023
    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
  • Get Off My Desktop Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid News
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Mar 2023
    > 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...

  • How do i add a power button to the wibar
    1 project | /r/awesomewm | 13 Mar 2023
    You can try this widget: https://github.com/streetturtle/awesome-wm-widgets/tree/master/logout-menu-widget
  • Awesome WM customizer/configurator
    9 projects | /r/awesomewm | 20 Feb 2023
    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]).
  • button click interpreted twice
    1 project | /r/awesomewm | 16 Feb 2023
    ------------------------------------------------- -- 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 })
  • General help with widgets
    3 projects | /r/awesomewm | 17 Dec 2022
  • Need help installing awesome-wm-widgets widgets, I tried with the volume widget and then spotify and both times adding the code in the read me to different places in the rc.lua and each time saving and reloading awesomewm caused it to reset to default settings with a slew of errors and no widget
    1 project | /r/awesomewm | 8 Nov 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dotfiles and awesome-wm-widgets you can also consider the following projects:

titus-awesome - Custom AwesomeWM Theme

polybar-themes - A huge collection of polybar themes with different styles, colors and variants.

qtile-polybar

rofi - A huge collection of Rofi based custom Applets, Launchers & Powermenus.

NvChad - Blazing fast Neovim config providing solid defaults and a beautiful UI, enhancing your neovim experience.

awesome-copycats - Awesome WM themes

gitmux - :computer: Git in your tmux status bar

rofi-power-menu - Configurable power menu mode for Rofi and dmenu

telescope-media-files.nvim - Telescope extension to preview media files using Ueberzug.

lain - Awesome WM complements

neoterm - Wrapper of some vim/neovim's :terminal functions.

bling - Utilities for the awesome window manager