picom VS Dotfiles

What distro? My pref is for Jonaburg's fork. Ibhagwan is out of date. Pijulius more so. Yshui doesn't have animation.

This configuration uses Qtile extra package and one of my favourite picom fork for minimalistic look with rounded-corners

As others have said, Awesome doesn't ship with a compositor so you need one yourself. My choice is jonaburg's picom fork for the extra included features, but regular picom will do the job.

Install jonaburg picom https://github.com/jonaburg/picom

picom-jonaburg has rounded corners and animations. Window gaps are controlled by your window manager, compositors can't interact with them.

Offtopic: I know you didn't ask this, but I just saw the fork you are using was updated the last time in 2020: https://github.com/jonaburg/picom/tags . The current version of the original https://github.com/yshui/picom/releases got updated this year (2 years more development!). Unless you are using features that is only available in that fork, I would try the mainline, which also got some of these features too, in example support for rounding corners. So maybe this newer version works better.

I am using Qtile (on a Laptop running Ubuntu 20.04), with jonaburg-picom, which is blurring my Qtile bar since some parts of it are configured to be transparent. How do I get rid of that blur, can someone help me with this?

This is how I do it with awesomeWM on EndeavourOS. Maybe this will help you. I'm using picom-jonaburg-git.

to shutdown sleep etc i use rofi you can use dmenu if you want https://github.com/Sloopy3333/dotfiles/blob/master/scripts/dmenu_power.sh

xmobar can display data from unix pipes. make script that writes what you want to a pipe and let xmobar display it. like this https://github.com/Sloopy3333/dotfiles/blob/master/.config/xmonad/scripts/backlight-pipe.sh and use pipereader to display in xmobar, you just make sure that whenever you change your backlight you write that to its pipe and xmobar will display the new value.

https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/blob/master/examples/padding-icon.sh this script generates a transparent xpm icon same width as your tray size. run this as a module in xmobar wherever you want trayer to be and launch trayer to that position. take a look at this https://github.com/Sloopy3333/dotfiles/tree/master/.config/xmonad

if you mean height then yes you can. here is my old qtile config https://github.com/Sloopy3333/dotfiles/blob/master/.config/qtile/config.py#L366

https://github.com/Sloopy3333/dotfiles/blob/master/.config/emacs/elisp/completion.el#L77

take a look at line 267 in my config

i migrated from neovim to emacs just a week ago and. i made a config scouring other peoples configs, documentations etc. and i managed to learn some elisp basics so please be kind and point out any mistakes that i am doing that are very obvious to you.

that is exactly what you should do. xmobar just reads what xmonad outputs so you have to define a loghook saying what you want to output in your xmonad.hs take a look at my xmonad.hs.

here is a example example script i wrote a while back