vicious
Vicious is a modular widget library for the "awesome" window manager. (by vicious-widgets)
awesome
awesome window manager (by awesomeWM)
| vicious | awesome | |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | 223 | |
| 385 | 6,129 | |
| 0.3% | 0.8% | |
| 3.6 | 7.2 | |
| 5 months ago | 14 days ago | |
| Lua | Lua | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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.
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.
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
awesome
Posts with mentions or reviews of awesome.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-23.
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Hyprland Crash Course
https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/issues/3132
- Size of clients in the Master area
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Any plans on porting to wayland?
i'm reading this issue and this thread as i'm looking into migrate to wayland, since sooner or later we'll apparently have (i know this won't be very soon, but wayland is more and more mainstream). I know "any update on this?" is very annoying, and that's why i'm not open an issue, but... Any update on this?
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selecting menu options without releasing right click
I guess, it's not supported at the moment or you'll have to do some hacks.. There is this issue (#3777) with the same problem.
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[HELP] Dynamically change menu item title based on client.focus.maximized state
This is the correction in awesome-git: https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/pull/3657/files
- How to replicate this desktop?
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A linux newbie has installed and configured Arch. Minimalist graphical capabilities?
I use the Awesome Window Manager. At it's core, it's a little difficult to figure out. But once you get the hang of assigning hot keys and whatnot, You'll be able to use it more fluently. I use it on all 3 of my machines (two desktops and one laptop). I Love it! I copy my configs from the machine I started it with and put them on the other 2 machines. Works great!
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How to install and setup lightdm and awesomewm?
git clone https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome.git
- awful.keygrabber help
- new to awesome
What are some alternatives?
When comparing vicious and awesome you can also consider the following projects:
lain - Awesome WM complements
Hyprland - Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
awesome-freedesktop - Freedesktop.org menu and desktop icons support for Awesome WM
i3 - A tiling window manager for X11
awesome-wm-widgets - Widgets for Awesome Window Manager
dunst - Lightweight and customizable notification daemon
bling - Utilities for the awesome window manager
pywal - 🎨 Generate and change color-schemes on the fly.
awesome-config - Awesome WM config
Hardcode-Tray - Fixes Hardcoded tray icons in Linux
cmus - Small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor