modalawesome VS vicious

But maybe you will prefer modalawesome. You should have a look to the demo

Ok, here is another set of answers: 1. Not out of the box, but there is a keygrabber which allows you to do this. You can find the implementation in this repo. 2. Pretty easy. Check the article about awful.spawn. The docs for git master version of awesome are generally better, but there are quite a few differences compared to last release.

The closest thing I've seen is modalawesome. It doesn't provide the keybindings but it does provide the interface for defining vi-like key sequences.

You could also check out modal awesome.

It's from vicious widgets.

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.

Also I found this https://github.com/vicious-widgets/vicious/blob/master/widgets/cmus_all.lua

https://github.com/vicious-widgets/vicious a well known repo with widgets you can take inspiration from

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52634985/awesome-wm-os-execute-vs-afwul-spawn https://github.com/vicious-widgets/vicious/issues/74

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.