lain
Awesome WM complements (by lcpz)
vicious
Vicious is a modular widget library for the "awesome" window manager. (by vicious-widgets)
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lain
Posts with mentions or reviews of lain.
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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
vicious
Posts with mentions or reviews of vicious.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-22.
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It's taken me all day, but I've just got my widgets changing colour with load, battery, wifi and CPU temp and I'm having an embarrassing amount of fun
It's from vicious widgets.
- Help with battery widget
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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.
- Desktop Utilities when coming from a DE
- where to lean scripting lua for awesome wm?
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I'm trying to use a widget but it won't work
Also I found this https://github.com/vicious-widgets/vicious/blob/master/widgets/cmus_all.lua
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Is there any tutorial on creating widgets?
https://github.com/vicious-widgets/vicious a well known repo with widgets you can take inspiration from
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noob in awesome need some help with temp widget
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52634985/awesome-wm-os-execute-vs-afwul-spawn https://github.com/vicious-widgets/vicious/issues/74
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Lightweight DE on good hardware. Worth it ?
I'm using https://awesomewm.org/ with the https://github.com/vicious-widgets/vicious for almost 9 years now. I did spent the first year (on and off of course) tweaking everything to my liking.
- Need help with customizing the status bar
What are some alternatives?
When comparing lain and vicious you can also consider the following projects:
awesome-wm-widgets - Widgets for Awesome Window Manager
awesome-freedesktop - Freedesktop.org menu and desktop icons support for Awesome WM
awesome - awesome window manager
net_widgets - Network widgets for Awesome WM
awesome-copycats - Awesome WM themes
bling - Utilities for the awesome window manager
NsCDE - Modern and functional CDE desktop based on FVWM
cmus - Small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.
awesome-config - Awesome WM config