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1,045 | 824 | |
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3 months ago | 4 days ago | |
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GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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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.
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
bling
Posts with mentions or reviews of bling.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-25.
- Creating custom layout examples
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How to add gap on one side?
I wonder if there's a library that has handled something like that. Bling maybe?
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New to awesome, have a few questions
Widgets are typically obtained by either using widget collections, such a Vicious or Bling, by "extracting" them from other people's repos or by just writing them yourself. Note that, to customize awesome, you really do want to learn how to use the widget system, as otherwise, you'd be missing out on one of awesome's greatest strengths. Also, no, it doesn't matter which distro you use. They are almost always distro independent (except for maybe something like a package update notifier or something, as that really can't be done distro independently). It does however matter whether you use the stable release (4.3 as of now) or the current git master, as stable is about 3 years old while the git master is in very active development. Some of the cooler widgets may only work on the git master branch.
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animations
Javacafe01 - evidently he has archived his repo, guess NixOS is getting to him. He is also the primary developer behind Bling which also implements Rubato, but in such a way as to take esoteric to new heights if you aren't used to making sense of the big foot scat that is awesomewm configurations.
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How to color layoutbox?
About bling library bugs and improvements you can insert the issue directly to github project: https://github.com/BlingCorp/bling/issues
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Help : Scratchpads in awesomewm
There is an external library for Awesome called Bling that implements scratchpads. I've never used i3 so I'm just assuming they are similar. Here is a link to the docs for the Bling scratchpads.
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simple horizontal tile
https://github.com/BlingCorp/bling/blob/master/layout/vertical.lua works for me
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Desktop Pager
This question is asked from time to time. Recently I seen some very good try to implement it. I think it was in Bling. Check the tag preview widget there.
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[OC] Introducing Bling - Utilities for AwesomeWM (More layouts, tabbing, preview widgets, and more!)
Bling
- Alternative b/c wayland
What are some alternatives?
When comparing lain and bling you can also consider the following projects:
awesome-wm-widgets - Widgets for Awesome Window Manager
vicious - Vicious is a modular widget library for the "awesome" window manager.
eww - ElKowars wacky widgets
awesome - awesome window manager
net_widgets - Network widgets for Awesome WM
awestore - Sveltes store API for AwesomeWM.
awesome-copycats - Awesome WM themes
awesome-revelation - Show all clients all screens in Awesome window manager
NsCDE - Modern and functional CDE desktop based on FVWM
picom - A lightweight compositor for X11