qtile-examples VS Qtile-Config

I have also combined this with some navigation over different focus/screens that I found here: https://github.com/qtile/qtile-examples/blob/master/traverse.py

Did you look at the linked examples in the official repo? I'm not aware of any other resource like that, except for some bits I found through this subreddit.

There is a qtile-examples repository, full of people's setups and tweaks.

basic notification system and example server

Most importantly, there are lines that define keybindings to start programs. I don't use qtile, but I think this example will help you figure things out. For instance, there is the # start specific apps section that explains that (with the given config) you have to press the mod key + n to start the browser or mod key + Enter to start the terminal.

Declaration for each 'theme'. (See qtile-examples for how to separate qtile into multiple files.)

I'm not completely dumbstruck, for example I can see that in this config the dev uses functions and hooks (idk what hooks are, sounds like a way to add event-driven functionality) to automatically set the window type to floating if the window name is equal to x.

You can find some example configs at qtile-examples but, note, some of those configs are quite old.

https://github.com/qtile/qtile-examples/blob/92c2659e771b42ca52342996181f2c1b3fdb0324/cjbarnes/config.py (line 60)

I'm (sorry) still working with QTile and picom. Everything seems to work okay, I get a wallpaper (as you will see in my config) using he built in screen function in qtile. I cannot seem to get picom to run though. i decided to try https://github.com/Daniel1404/Qtile-Config method of the autostart. use the hook then add the link to picom. here are my files: