vicious VS awesome-freedesktop

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.

Default awesome config doesn't parse .desktop files at all. Some deb based distributions modified it to use awesome-freedesktop but it's surely not an only way to get the application menu (there are stand alone apps like rofi). So first of all you should mention which way to create the menu are you using.

Freedesktop.org compliant menu and desktop icons - older style, but dynamic. Not bad, but not for me. https://github.com/lcpz/awesome-freedesktop

Behold the desktop icons! I present you the awesome-freedesktop module by lcpz: https://github.com/lcpz/awesome-freedesktop